Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — THE DAWN OF PROSPERITY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAWN OF PROSPERITY.

Ihe optimist is coming into his own. . i .. - . _ The dawn of prosperity is in sight, and the beacon that lights the Way to gt eater activity becomes brighter day by day. Matiiacinrers of the United States are receiving many inquiries from over the seas from great firms who are looking to us for the goods which heretofore they have purchased in Europe. Unless all signs fail they will aocumlate and swell and assume greater proportions until our fair land is one hive of humming industry, with work in plenty for all and a spirit ol peace and content mem resting upon tim land. In years gone by the allies have bought from the Germans and" the Austrians and the latter have purchased from the former and from each other. It was ar. interchangable system of commerce. , But the bitterness engendered by the war is affecting a vast and mighty change. All are turning to ‘America for their wares until Europe recovers from its paralysis. 1 And from South America comes the cry for goods - more goods—and plenty of them. This trade in the past has been given to Europe, hut the nations at war have practically no merchant ships upon the seas and are unable to supply the demand. Hence the Latin race turns to its big brother of the north, And once this commerce of South America is secured by the United States, it is doubtful if it could be wrested from us by. any other means than force of arms, and that of course would not come until the warring nations have recovered from their physical and financial exhaustion, although eventually that may be the inevitable with which we will he forced to contend. But in the meantime we will manufacture goods and ship them to the nations of the world, and gold will pour in to us, and the laborer will have fuller dinner palls, and the

farmer \Jill have better maFftets for his products, and the business man will feed such prosperity as he has not known for many years. It will not come in a day, or in a week, or in a month. But it will assume greater proportions etep by step until we have reached the pinnacle of a nation's prosperity. Unless all sings fail.