Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1914 — Our National Resources. [ARTICLE]

Our National Resources.

The falling oft of exports to tha United States from Great Britain and Germany Is making itself felt in thoqe countries. There Is a steady beeline of industrial activity in both countries, but more especially In Germany, where speculative conditions were similar to those In the United States, and there was undue stimulation as a result of protective tariff rules. Our great natural resources duririg. times of Industrial stagnation, suable us to endnre temporary setbaoks without undue depression. We know that other nations dspend largely upon the products of our fields and mines and that our farmers who labor on top of the ground pud our delvers who burrow beneath will pull as out of the speculative wreck in good time. This Certainty as to the bed-rock foundation of prosperity l n the United Stmtee begets confidence. Confidence once restored the nation will go forward ■|» | * With a buoyancy of spirit that its material sdvnnoemsct son.