Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — CARNEGIE ON BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

CARNEGIE ON BUSINESS.

Mr. Carnegie was ever an optimist, and he seems with advancing,'years to grow more stalwart in the faith. But he is also an exceedingly shrewd business man, and a rather trustworthy forecaster. “There is,” he said yesterday, “no more doubt that a better business period has begun than of the fact that the sun will ( shine more brilliantly in a few months than it does now.” “We shall find,” he said further, “in a very short time that the reduction, of the tariff will benefit the American exporter.” This is not the voice of mere optimism, but of sober truth. There is plenty of evidence that may be cited in support of the Carnegie view. Trade reports are more favorable each week. Idle men are being put to work 1n increasing numbers. Steel mills are resuming operations, and on a steadily increasing scale. i.Mr. Carnegie, therefore, only reports what he sees and knows. As to the new tariff, it is hound to increase exports. It can have no other effect. The fewer the obstacles to trade the greater trade will be. Imports and exports will both grow, and within a few years our loreign trade will in all probability he larger than ever before in our l istory. We shall have a larger command over the good things of life—indeed, we already have it to some extent. Here, again, the great patron of circulating libraries speaks as an authority. For he has had much experience with foreign trade, and also with the tariff as related to it.

So we can enter the happy spring season, which is already knocking at our doors, with high hopes and cheerful hearts. The signs are all favorable—even in the baseball world. With the appearance of the first box score today one can almost see the streets and the fields free of snow. In the business, as in the sporting world, the slogan now is, "Play hall'.”—lndianapolis News.