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sunset skies. It seemed as if our "bad year"—which never comes—
had really arrived at last.
But this Republic is too big for bad years! The lean arm of
famine cannot reach all the way across the land. Our prairies, our
plains, our mountain sides and our river valleys look toward every
point of the compass, gathering the heavenly favors of every clime.
This land will not be cursed with dearth until the whole earth
languishes.
Our "bad year," in fact, has turned out to be one of the best
years that ever were. Of the corn that "couldn't grow," a bumper
crop of 3,000,000,000 bushels, the largest corn crop ever harvested,
is now being gathered in. The yield is considerably greater than
that of 1906, which, with a crop of 2,927,416^000 bushels, held the
record up to this year.
Of wheat we have a yield this year of 691,769,000 bushels,
worth, at an average valuation, $635,427,000. This has been ex-
ceeded three times in the last ten years, but it is pretty good for a
"bad year."
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NEW
YORK,
NOVEMBER
12, 1910
EDITORIAL
W
ELL, election is over, and while there are many disappointed
people scattered throughout these United States, yet the
fact remains that the people have expressed their wishes through
the ballots cast and that is all there is about it, for a time at least.
Now for business!
There is no question but that politics interferes too much with
business in this country.
For months men have been saying that business will improve
and collections loosen up after election.
Now, let us see!
Certainly it is to be hoped that conditions will improve and
instead of talking politics let us talk prosperity and see if we can-
not encourage business by emphasizing the good points which we
possess as a nation.
This year certainly did not promise big things at the start and
business held back for the first six months and it did not look as if
the fall would be .over-buoyant.
If the United States of America ever could have a "bad year,"
1910 must have been that year. There was summer in March and
winter in April and May. Kansas corn was unsprouted when it
should have been knee deep. Then a long, persistent, blighting
drought fell upon the Northwest, turning the fields into wind-blown
dust and the forests into furnaces; while the South and New Eng-
land were sodden under continuous rains. The powers of nature
seemed working at malicious cross purposes.
No wheat, no corn! That was the message which the West
gent us. There was a scary look nearly all summer in the lurid
we have a total harvest out of the ground this year
A T of any all rate, grains
and crops which exceeds $9,000,000,000 in
money value. Nine billion dollars—nine thousand million dollars-
one needs to see the sum presented in various ways in order to get
even an inkling of its magnitude.
Sell out the entire city of New York, with every foot of land
in it, and every building; add to this sum every other form of tax-
able property that is found here, and you would not have so great
a sum as this one year's value of the harvests from American fields.
You would have to add to New York City's valuation very nearly
all the taxable property of the rest of New York State to get so
great a sum.
And all this brought forth in a single year, and a "bad" one at
that! Between spring's solstice and autumn's equinox the hand
of heaven has dropped a greater aggregate of wealth upon the
American farmer's field than Manhattan has been able to pile up
in two hundred and fifty years.
And as much more is coming next year, and the year after
that—and more and more, and ever more, as the land is better
tilled and more of it is tilled. The product of our fields, by the
methods now coming in, may easily be doubled within ten years,
whereas it will take at least forty years to double our population.
Next year, doubtless, nature will behave toward us less fan-
tastically than she did this year. We may fairly expect a "good
year!" But if it makes us still more prosperous than we are in
this "bad year," we shall need to humble ourselves and sprinkle a
touch of ashes on our garments, to save ourselves from the sin of
vainglorious pride.
Now, these are the things to talk about and think about and
there is no good reason why the piano men of this country should
not enjoy a holiday trade of unusual proportions.
Certainly, the fundamentals are all right and men are justified
in going ahead placing a strong emphasis on the business getting
end of the trade machine.
Let's quit talking politics now and get to business!
N
INE men in ten fail to make the most of themselves; not
because they do not have the chance, not because they do
not know or cannot find out how; but because they do not care
enough about it to make the effort. The one ferment that must
be implanted in a man's mind to make him struggle all his life for
success is that of ambition. Once get ambition seething in a man's
brain and it stands a good chance to make him amount to some-
thing. Without that desire to surpass, to get ahead, to lead the
whole procession or some division of it, he stands little chance of
ever leading anything.
W
E would suggest to our clients who are in the habit of for-
warding electros for advertising purposes to this office
that they send all matter possible by mail, inasmuch as we have
had many advertisements delayed by the non-delivery of electro-
types by express since the strike became operative in our citv
D
EALERS throughout the country report an increasing demand
for player-pianos, and there will be an enormous output of
these instruments this year.