Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1915 — Prosperity Halts Because Freedom Is Denied the Nation’s Business Interests [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Prosperity Halts Because Freedom Is Denied the Nation’s Business Interests

By JAMES J. HILL

Railroad President

JILL the business of the United States —foreign and domestic, com/A merce and manufactures, big and little industries—needs freedom to live and grow in its own way so long as it infringes upon no real right of another. IT HAS BEEN BULLIED AND BLED AUD BANDAGED UNTIL IT CAN ONLY CHEEP ABOUT IN A SICKLY WAY. ITS MISFORTUNES HAVE RETURNED TO BLAGUE ITS TORMENTORS. There is little doubt now in any well balanced and honest mind why this country, blessed with plentiful crops, selling them at an average increase of 50 per cent over the- preceding year, enjoying in a time of universal convulsion, the source of supply for hundreds of millions of people and billions of credit, is not riding on the high tide of prosperity, but subsiding dully with its ebb to the shoals and flats of universal depression and misfortune. THE PRINCIPAL, IF NOT THE SOLE, REASON IS BECAUSE FREEDOM HAS BEEN DENIED TO ITS BUSINESS INTEREST AND ECONOMICAL AND PROPER METHODS OF OPERATION FORBIDDEN TO ITS BUSINESS ACTIVITIES. The first real preparation for an enlargement in foreign or an improvement in domestic trade is cessation of attacks that have crippled both and removal of the many useless bonds that hold helpless the nation’s mighty limbs.

J. J. HILL.