Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — HENRY LANE WILSON SPEAKS [ARTICLE]

HENRY LANE WILSON SPEAKS

But It Is Quite Evident Business Men Do Not Agree with Republican Spellbinders, A dispatch in one of the Indianapolis papers of Thursday told of a Republican address made at Greensburg by Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico, in which he referred to the present prosperity as “gunpowder prosperity,” and could not last; that like the |iouse builded on the pands, would wash away when the floods came. Mr. Wilson said, among other things, that “men of incapability had been placed in places of responsibility as a reward for political service,” and that the Underwood tariff had-nearly caused ruin of the country but for “gun powder prosperity.” > It is quite evident that the real business interests of this country do not agree with Henry Lane Wilson nor the other Republican spellbinders who are going about the country prophecying such disaster, as the Lafayette Journal, the leading Republican paper of the Tenth district, had the following item in its news columns yesterday: “A mammoth order from the New York Central lines totaling 115 engines, and a smaller o>* from the Chicago & st. Louis railroad, totaling ten, have just been received at

the Libia Locomotive corporation. The order from the big Eastern line is to be made ffp of heavy switching locomotives and of engines of the type known as Mohawks. The New York Gentrar company has issued an order for 230 engines in all, the Lima firm receiving half the order and the American Locomotive works the remainder. The order for the Western road is confined to the regular Mikado type engines.” The men at the head of the New York Central railroad lines are among the very brainiest men in the world. Does it Took reasonable that they would place an order for 230 locomotives if they believed the prosperity “house” was soon to be “washed away”?