Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE
RE™
fflJJIC T^ADE
V O L . X L V I I . N o . 19. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at I Madison Ave., New York, November 7,
1 9 0 8 . S I N G L $ L IOS°P
I S ° P P ER
E S S V VE E O O AR A C C E N T S
The struggle for presidential honors is over and the American people have settled upon the
chief magistrate of this great Nation for the next four years. And now for business.
While the campaign opened in rather a tame manner, it developed ginger enough before its
close to satisfy the most enthusiastic voter. To my mind, these great political contests are worth
all they cost in time, in energy, in money, for in no other way would the people acquire such an
amount of knowledge of the intricate machinery of this government.
They listen to a variety of theories expounded by speakers, they learn of the functional
powers of the different departments, the mystery of tariff, of finance as made clear by explanation
and when the campaign is over, they have absorbed a fund of information which is educational and
uplifting. The knowledge gained helps materially to solve other problems which may lie further
along our pathway, and the problems which confront us most prominently to-day require for their
solution not only experience but intelligence as well.
They require more—they require a fraternal sentiment, and the more men realize the sym-
pathetic lines which reach out to every division of life, the better citizens they will be.
The following from the Talmud is commended to men of all classes: '* Walking the mount-
ains one day I saw a form which I took to be a beast, coming nearer I saw it was a man, approach-
ing nearer still, I found it was my brother." The more we approach one another, the more we
feel our brotherhood and the aggregation that we call society is bound together by ties of sympathy,
strengthened it may be by culture, but too often strained by selfishness and pride.
The relation of man to Nature and her physical forces commands the highest functions of
the mind, but the relation of man to his fellows not only enlists the highest intellectual effort but
requires that it be tempered by impulses of human kindness.
Those who have as the mainspring of their actions the elevation of their fellows live and
move upon a higher plane and are better members of society than those who subordinate sentiment
and sympathy to gain and power.
We have had a great national struggle. The nation has been stirred to its depth and now
that the people have made their Presidential choice, let us forget any bitterness which may have
been engendered through differences of political opinion. We are all Americans and let us stand
together, shoulder to shoulder, for the betterment of the Nation.
Politics have occupied the center of the stage for some time and now let the business man
have his innings. Let's have done with discussing isms and theories and get down to a fair solution
of business problems. The earth in its fertility and resourcefulness furnishes material sufficient to
maintain in comfort all its sons. Now that their genius and energy is devoted to a proper utiliza-
tion of that material, there will be no question as to returns.
Business—let us get down to solid, unsympathetic, yet comfort-producing business.
Ring down the curtain on politics and let us shift the scene.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL.