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VOL. LI. N o . 1. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, July 2,1910
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URING the past few weeks I have heard the statement made many times that we are going to
face a summer of unusual dullness in a business sense.
Now, if men continue to talk in this pessimistic strain, they will be contributing greatly to-
wards creating a season of trade flatulency.
It will create doubt and fear in the minds of many.
It is this fear and eternal worrying about the situation and making dire predictions as to the future
which will aid in creating the very thing which men fear.
Through fear splendid business ability is paralyzed, and men are frequently ruined through it.
It was fear which in days agone prompted certain segments of the music trade to bow the head and
bend the knee to a vulgar and blatant editor, who has been branded throughout America as a common
blackmailer. Why should men have stood in terror of such a moral and physical coward?
Because thousands of people dread some imaginary evil.
It hangs over them in their most buoyant moments, and it is through fear that men have yielded
to threats and intimidation, instead of kicking the one who made them out of their business offices.
A man who owns a paper is a cowardly knave to threaten one who will have to purchase a paper
to be evenly matched.
And to think of fearing such a low type, and yet some did fear him, and there was a time, long ago,
when he even wielded some influence in the music trade.
This elementary fear seems somehow to be ingrained into our lives.
We express doubt as to the crops, the Government reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
We are afraid of a money panic, and yet we are buttressed around with about as strong elements
as possible.
Now, this sort of condition is dangerous not alone to the individual, but to the country, and the
sooner fear is replaced by good, healthy optimism the better it will be for all.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this country.
It is all right.
We have a good, wise, level-headed Chief Executive, who has accomplished some wise legislation
without pyrotechnics or flamboyancy.
There is a.belief on the part of our people that the administration of our affairs locally and na-
tionally is steadily improving.
God has been good to this country in showering, upon it untold riches in national resources, and
yet we hear men complaining on every hand.
Why is this?
Are we becoming a race filled with fear and apprehension, or is it just a habit into which we have
fallen?
In either case the quicker dread is expelled from the human mind the better it will be for all.
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