Show THIS a 11 d THAT BY SAM HILL may let finally passed and a considerable number of honorable gold boarders hoar ders automatically became fugitives from justice by reason of president Roosevel ts proclamation that all gold in the L S and possessions be surrendered to the government prior to mav 1st to be caught with gold in excess of in value now Is almost more serious than a murder it means a ten thousand dollar tine fine 0 and ten year in the hoosegow the poor poverty stricken millionaire who has enough gold to get caught but not enough to pay clarence darrow and dudley field malone to defend him will be in a bad w dav av unless he shoots himself in advance the belief Is now almost universal among our leading economists that we are moving out of the depression but the qu atwon as to alic ther our exit will lie be backward oi 01 forward is a matter of considerable conjecture A majority seem tc think we should go backward and reestablish establish re conditions such as existed at some date in the gl glorious orlou past most blest of them are eap exp eang the president to lead us somewhere but hardly any two are expecting oi 01 hoping tor for the same desti destination natio n 0 the farmer hopes for a prosperity that will mean a ready market for what he produces and fair prices labor wants a prosperity that will mean jobs and pay checks sufficient to purchase what the farmei produces at said fair prices there iano conflict between the desires oi 01 these two factions farmers and laborers prosperity for the laborea means prosperity tor for the farmer and visa versa because each is dependent upon the other when the laborer earns enough to buy the farmers surplus the farmer thereby gets enough to buy labors sur plus and surpluses of both become a thing of the past there Is no farm problem and no labor problem tho thi wheels roll without a squeak and everything Is honkey dory but heres another fellow to be considered just as a matter of convenience veni ence in this caste of characters well call him a banker he too wants prosperity but the type 0 prosperity he wants sort ot of tends to conflict with the prosperity of the other fellows already mentioned the farmer wants his prosperity based upon what he actually produces the laborer wants his prosperity based upon what he actually creates but the banker wants his prosperity based upon the heretofore unquestioned right to absorb the total production of both farmer and laborer through interest collect ions and huge dividends on watered stocks crying what we ar are t trying to get at is this the man who Is hoping tor for a farmers prosperity a laborers pros pro and a bankers prosperity li it the same country at the same time Is destined to utter disappointment theres no such animal because the tankers prosperity which means the collection of 0 huge interests IF caniba cannibalistic listic and devours the prosperity of 0 everybody else e 0 4 therefore it if we are to give the whole matter a general diagnose dla dia gnoss we must conclude that all al president roosevelt has to do in order to bring back enduring prosperity is to 1 make blake the rich pay all the taxes without hurting their feelings 2 double the farmers without raising the cost ot of living or offending the middleman 3 put all the unemployed t work without competing with private industry 4 make the railroads show a profit without squeezing out their watered stocks or cutting the salaries of 0 worthless officials 5 enlarge jails sufficiently to accommodate all bankers who belong belone there without embarrassing said bankers 6 cancel the war debts so our private bankers can collect their vate vata debts without difficulty 7 keep the people ignorant oncoming concerning the twelve billion lol lars which the government has paid in interest since 1919 8 make sense ot of the gold stand bland dard and explain aby wh y it did not pass with other forms of witchcraft 9 provide congressmen with tree free beer and the unpaid schoolteacher ot chicago with a nackle with which to buy a glass glasa occasionally 10 teach al capone the difference between racketeering and 11 teach the chinese and japanese the spirit of 0 brotherly love and induce them to kill each other is a spirit of friendship 12 persuade adolph hitler to get married to a jewess 0 0 of 0 course there are many other things expected of the president but the matters bedein enumerated see seem m most Im import portent nt to their respective sponsor ers it merely shows what an easy lob job the president has and what a simple matter it Is to pase everybody |