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Show Prosperity In Our Own Hands The prosperity of the American Amer-ican people is in their own: j hands. It is not dependent j upon what other people owe us or may do to us, and only in I minor degree upon what other people may buy of us. In the last year it has been demonstrated demon-strated that with some moderate moder-ate readjustments this country can be quite fully employed regardless re-gardless of foreign conditions, and with a good degree of prosperity pros-perity all around. All that is required is confidence and cooperation, co-operation, but these are indispensable. indis-pensable. For tlint matter, 1'hirope lacks nothing but these, ami there can be no prosperity pros-perity anywhere without them. We are somewhat critical of the peopl(.H of Europe for not promptly .settling their disagreements, dis-agreements, suppressing . their miserable suspicions and hatreds, ha-treds, and getting down to teamwork, but we have little to brag of in these respects over Europe, if we judge by the political po-litical and industrial news that fills the newspapers. Geo. E. Roberts in National City Bank Bulletin. -r i m |