Show THIS A N by sam hill MY COUNTRY stephen decature once said my country in tier her intel collide foreign nations may she ever be right but right or wrong my country but a ballet from a pistol in the hand ot of commodore barron which laid decature beneath the sod in 1820 was final proof to decature Dec aturo that americans even in high places are sometimes wrong beyond justification fi lit in the turbulent days when the tha clouds of a groat great civil war were muttering in advance of the storm our immortal lincoln said no n licit can long andu t halt slave and halt free we wonder what lincoln well 1 say of a nation halt fed and halt hail s BL arved we wonder what lincoln would predict tor for the future of a nation that apparently cannot teed fedd its feeders A number of the delegates leaving the republican national convention had not had time to soler sober up before the mayor of the second largest city in the western hemisphere handed the following to the newspapers it if we can not g gy help you can get ready tor for the worst we need immediately city em aloyes have not been paid tor for 2 ah months school employees for 42 4 is 2 months and ther alier emillo employees for varying periods it if we do not get help the police land and firemen will not function you yon might just as well face the facts now ten million dollars was 1 I raised by private subscription for charity and more ws was voted by the state legislature the money now available Is sufficient to keep the relief stations going only through july it if we can not borrow barrow money we are sunk gunk these relief stations care tor for about families picture the closing of them it you will take the ally entrance to any restaurant and see the number of A hungry men standing in if line in for far tho the food the restaurants will throw away it if we do not get help I 1 am not going to forecast what will happen one hundred ant anit thirty thousand families destitute in chicago alone and besides these families there are thoun sands ot of others outside of family circles orphans homeless girls and wandering men stand ingIn lire to beg tor for the scraps and crumbs that are swept from tables in restaurants tau rants this mearis means that in achl chicago ato ago alone more people are on the verge of starvation than the total population of nevada utah and ana wyoming combined when the richest nation in the world where so be much work needs to lo be done has more unemployed than the total unemployed of rus hussla germany franco and england combined it Is high time to examine the record and take stock of the causo cause and possible result charles G dawes says that our trouble is lack ot of confide confidence oddly enough he omitted mention ot of any individuals or set ot of individuals whose record or actions warrant wholesale confidence also apparent ly mr dawes overlooked the all important fact that confidence alone will not buy shoes for little feet will not pay taxes rent or grocery bills As a nation our troubles have not of sprung from a lack or wealth or money instead they are a direct result ot of years of concentration ot of wealth and money to make one man a millionaire must mos mean it that one thousand others shall have been reduced to poverty it takes thel the v balth of one thousand millionaires I 1 to create that ot of one billionaire and to do that will throw anar an state stat on the rocks we are on the rocks as al a nation chiefly and solely because as a nation we have made t too many billionaires millionaires billion aires As a result the amonoy which should have been spent at home has been hoarded 1 in h huge ug bank vaults or set to far foreign ei g C countries 0 n in payment tor for wort less european south american or asiatic bonds when ten men control enough wealth to make ten million families independent while millions of honest banest met men and women and innocent babies go hungry with nothing better to hope for somewhere the score is all wrong when men have nothing to hope for and a only il ly their lives to lose they have litt little I 1 e left to live tor for unless somebody calls a halt and that soon future historians will have occasion to record the rise and tall fall ot of a later and greater rome I 1 PT |