guide-outline which you will expand into the written address, if written it is

to be.

 

Imagine each of the main ideas in the brief on page 213 as being separate; then

picture your mind as sorting them out and placing them in order; finally,

conceive of how you would fill in the facts and examples under each head, giving

special prominence to those you wish to emphasize and subduing those of less

moment. In the end, you have the outline complete. The simplest form of

outline--not very suitable for use on the platform, however--is the following:

 

_WHY PROSPERITY IS COMING_

 

What prosperity means.--The real tests of prosperity.--Its basis in the

soil.--American agricultural progress.--New interest in farming.--Enormous value

of our agricultural products.--Reciprocal effect on trade.--Foreign countries

affected.--Effects of our new internal economy--the regulation of banking and

"big business"--on prosperity.--Effects of our revised attitude toward foreign

markets, including our merchant marine.--Summary.

 

Obviously, this very simple outline is capable of considerable expansion under

each head by the addition of facts, arguments, inferences and examples.

 

Here is an outline arranged with more regard for argument:

 

FOREIGN IMMIGRATION SHOULD BE RESTRICTED[11]