Show SHALL WE FROM THE BOTTOM UP OR DESTROY FROM THE TOP DOM 0 WIN samuel blythe at the of the century dryly observed every man and woman too for that matter feels that he lie can run a hotel or a newspaper better than its owner and thirty five years later last month a member of the federal coal commission stated that the commissioners could do a better job of operating the coal mines than the present operators advocates of public ownership take the same position As a result of this belief on the part of those who have the ear of the public we hear today one of the strangest dos trines of all that through political action the nation must restore democracy to the people that prosperity is conditioned on the country s purging itself of tryandous try annous economic royalists it is hereby submitted that of all the poppycock that has insulted a free and vigorous people in a generation this is it where do the royalists come from how does economic royalty reproduce itself who are its crown princes 9 it is well to investigate whence came this new captain of a great steel company last month born in coal miners hut where did economic autocracy go the other day to get the new president of a great packing company 9 an office boy thirty years ago where did a world renowned chicago store find its leader who died in no ember in a college class room from what economic loins sprang the presidents of our biggest railroads 9 more than a hundred came up from the ranks of telegraphers track walkers transit carriers clerks from the humblest of positions some time ago a casual in showed that half the new york bankers were born in the middle west and most of them on farms the presidents of the bell telephone companies all began at the bottom not one earning 20 a week at the start where did this grasping perpetuating self dynasty get the head of the world s greatest automobile corporations 9 an immigrant boy who stepped off the gangplank in new york at the age of eighteen and his competitors 9 one whose name is henry ford was an itinerant watch and clock repairer and the other walter chrysler a mechanic in a railroad shop at ellis kansas these men have given employment not merely to thousands but to hundreds of and who have created new industries which everyone admits have greatly bene fitted every citizen 9 what of these political officeholder office holder critics 9 can you point to a single instance of any one of them using his inherited fortunes to give employment 9 what industries have they built upa how have they increased the wealth of America 9 we hear much of sympathy for the underprivileged underfed but do you find any one of the political job holders doing anything with the money they have in aej boj ao 0 o ati 04 catl profess such great sympathy 9 do you find them giving employment to anyone with their fortunes 9 rather they invest it where they think it will be safe where no risk is involved in being in business lets be fair with those who are using their savings their funds to give employment and to increase production and thus add to the wealth of the country in that way only can prosperity be achieved I 1 ou can t increase anyone s prosperity by any other method N W ell if THIS be flouting democracy give us more of it to our simple mind america americas s industrial system is democracy s FINEST FRUIT AND FLAVOR where since the world began has a youth unknown to fame and fortune had greater opportunity 9 much talk there is of youth and its movement very well then put the question unvarnished to youth let the poor boys answer those who are coming up without heritage of riches or influence let them have their say ask them the really poor boys of the nation do you want place in america americas s industrial sun by your own efforts as has been the case in the past or do you prefer to take chances upon politics minded washington to discover you to have them appraise your ability to have them appoint you to some easy political job joba and upon confirmation ef of the senate of the united states raise you overnight to a position of business and respect 9 the self reliant way or the political way waya the answer of young america and its parents to this is the answer of all st alwert alvert youth the SELF RELIANT way and PROUD OF IT the united states hard beset at times will make the right choice the choice between shall we build from the bottom up Y T or destroy from the top downa |