Confidence, Or National Suicide (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Confidence, Or National Suicide (Classic Reprint) written by Arthur Edward Stilwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Confidence, or National Suicide While considering this subject, reference will be made to other matters, which are related to and influence the investment market Of our coun try, and I shall also lay stress on some points, which I believe have not been mentioned by other writers. Readers of these notes may say that I, being a railroad man, am prejudiced. However, I Offer my Observations, hoping they will prove of some worth. Is there a more important calling than that of a railroad constructor? IS there any achievement more helpful to the Nation than the building of a railroad; opening up a virgin territory; devel oping a new country; making farm lands advance in value from five to thirty dollars an acre; for cin g new towns to spring up, where happy, healthyschool children greet us; witnessing the division into farms of great territories heretofore devoted to ranching? NO occupation could be more grat ifying than this, which brings with it the feeling that through the power which God has given us, we have been able to create homes for thousands of settlers; we have been able to watch the young men, with a few hundred dollars, venture forth into a virgin country, soon becoming prosperous merchants or successful business men; and to witness the growth Of these newly-risen towns to three or five thousands of inhabitants, with schools and prosperous business establishments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.