Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-23 | Page 4 | This Country is Not Afraid

THIS COUNTRY IS NOT AFRAID. We cannot understand the spellbinders spell-binders who go about telling how this country has nothing to fear in a conflict with any other country in the world, and then hold up their hands in an attitude of utter helplessness when they begin to speak of foreign competition. Why, bless you, commerce calls for as much courage as diplomacy and nn7 nrtMni r-r K'ViinVt Vnirtnn oil the natural resources, equipment, money, brains and general efficiency efficien-cy possessed by the United States, takes on the position of a whipped cur with its tail between its legs before be-fore even the crack of the lash has been heard, is not only cowardly but cravenly weak. But the people of this nation are not afraid neither afraid of Europe's guns nor Europe's commercialism, commercial-ism, because the American people have gone out, In the past ten years, and undersold the world in nearly everything In which American Amer-ican efficiency has been put to the test, and the records of our export trade prove this to bo true. 00