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Show Good Medicine :tayer-elect Carson of Portland. Oregon, has prescribed some good medicine for public consumption. He raid: "We must quit asking the government to be a wet nurse to everything. "We must realize that the people peo-ple support the government, no: that the government supports the people. "We cannot get out of debt by going farther into debt. "We must cut the cost of government, gov-ernment, for in that way lies the only avenue of relief at present. "I am not an alarmist, but we must admit that none of us knows whe'her or not we have hit the bottom in this deflation of credits that is now going on. "We must maintain the stability of the economic order, must preserve pre-serve our institutions; if wt do not. it will mean that we are breaking the last timber that hold1; the roof of protection over our heads. "The protection of life, property and health are the fundamental duties of our government All else is superfluous. We must hold to these fundamentals and turn our back upon these other intriguing things, if we are to hold what we have and build solidly for the future." fu-ture." Portland is fortunate to have elected a mayor who has the courage to advocate such practical and fundamental American ideas. |