Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — PROSPERITY CERTAIN AND LIBERTY ASSURER. [ARTICLE]

PROSPERITY CERTAIN AND LIBERTY ASSURER.

Views of a Noted Jewish Publisher «a the Country’s Future. As far as human judgment can foresee—;ot least so it seems to the writer — the next four years Should be more prosperous than anything this country has ever .before seen. There will be an enormously increased demand for our natural products, such as iron, and just now coal; .and our manufactured products are also ■rapidly making their way. In certain tines, such as agricultural implements, ■tools and light vehicles, in fact whatever ait is necessary to combine lightness with strength, we are away ahead of the rest of the world, and it is only because we have not cultivated the foreign markets with sufficient assiduity that we have given our competitors a ghost of a show. In other lines than those mentioned above, such as ladies’ tine shoes and others that the writer could mention, we also form a claae by-ourselves superior to the rest of the world. These conclusions are drawn from personal observations in many countries. K A second poiut which ought to be well presented is that of expausion. You no doubt are aware of the greater or less persecution which the Jews have undergone in all the countries of the world, and are still undergoing to-day. Therefore one of the things that we desire to see established above all others is the universal principle of the right of any decent man to go anywhere where he thinks he can improve his condition and enjoy all the rights and immunities of a native, without being put to any disadvantage because of his religion. There are really only two countries that give this privilege; these are the United States and Great Britain. We know that freedom for all, equality 1 for all, and safety and protection for all. are guaranteed wherever the Stars and Stripes float: hence we were expansionists from the start and will be until the end. Wherever a country is practically j under American jurisdiction, it is a good thing for that country; it is a good thing for humanity, and a thing that is so good 1 cannot fail to be a good thing for the country itself in the end, though it may be costly in the beginning. These are the points which we think ought to be emphasised. The questions ought to be treated in the very broadest way; details do not count. LEO WISE. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1900.