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udioe that thoy cannot, or rather will not see the error heir way until it will be too late? Passing years will

& oonvlnoingly whether "Prudence" indeed has been conBd in our present legislative functions. Already Indi-

ans are becoming apparent to the trained eye that someRailroad securities, our letters of credit abroaa and inc any nation eve test and subje imposing. pntally the strongest national defense that erected, are being returned to us under proto severe discounts which we ourselves are

Again I ask the question, has Prudence been con-

sulted and is Confidence protected as you want it protected? Are we not even now changing a form of government long enough established to produce a wealth of ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in substantially forty years and place us in the foremost ranks of all the nations of the world? And

are not these changes due to "light and transient causes" in the intended and accepted seinse of the expression? plain gol lei That there were certain abuses of privilege in th< krly lays of pioneering, is not denied; nor should this 9 cause of undue wonderment as they were relatively insignificant indeed compared with the marvelous prosy which actually has been realized. These abuses are In

rds, are we not "killing the goose that laid the

kr beyond recall, and the possibility of their reouris entirely removed.