The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-09-07
Fall Business-Brighter Skies.

Although we cannot yet say that the times are
equal TO 1.-TWO dollars day, and roast beef" yet
there are evident symptoms that business will i'm
prove in the course of the present autumn.
The termination Of the session of the Rump Con-
gress-the passage of the new tariff or revenue law
and the British treaty-coupled with abundant
crops, limited currency, the shutting up and qui-
dalton OF rotten banks, and the winding up of rotten
men, have produced this tendency in the public
mind TO expect better days. Within our own cxpe-
renee, we beg to feel these effects in large
cesslon TO business advertising and business crcua-
ton, both of which have for the present season,
creased more than for any like period during four
years past. Nothing is a surer sign of increasing
buoyancy OF spirit in business. than the increase of
advertising. When trader feels like doing good
business, he feels like advertising berally-he plants
the seeds of his trade, and reaps the returns.
But while it is evident that better times are ap-
preaching, in spite of the exaggeratons of the
caly politicians, il is proper that there should be
mistake in the public mind to the nature and
character of this approaching busy
The prices, the profits, or the wages Of former
years need not be expected. No merchant can
make his twenty, his fifty, his hundred thousand
dollars year-nor can the mechanic, the journey
man, the laborer expect the high wages that pre-
vailed in 1885 and g. Economy and reform
cheapness and rugality, in every department of life,
and IN every class of society, must go hand in hand
with the increase of business and the spring tide OF
trade. Men must be prudent, cautious, and careful
of the cents and let the dollars take of them
selves. As people, we have been too waseful and
extravagant.
The times are coming right, but must take
care not TO launch forth into former foles. The
riotous and costly habits of life, which have cha
racerzed the financiers, merchant princes, gentle
men mechanics, or genteel laborers, must be here
after abandoned. The results OF such principles in
former years, ought to be lesson TO those of the
present race of business men, Look at the thou
sands OF bankrupts pressing througe the acsee the
disgraced and dshonored bank and other detauters,
who have wasted the money of the widow and the
orphan-mark the drunken groupes of politicians,
who have disgraced their country and lineage. All
these deporable examples ought TO be beacon
and warning TO all those who are now in safe
position pursue business, and TO conduct healthy
and hone est calling, hereafter.
In the midst of all the elements of the present,
there are certain principles that will invariably out
ride every storm. Trust not to banks-trust not to
corporations-trust not to credt-trus not the poll
tlcans-trust not TO persons-trust not TO lawyers
trust not TO the whigs-trust not TO the democrats
What then is 10 be trusted That's easy 10 tell, but
sometimes difficult to practice. Trust to gold and
silver-trust to cash payments-trust 10 good mort
cages real estae-rust to thrift, early rsing and
enersy-trust to economy, consistency and truth
trust TO short accounts, frequent settlements, per-
sonal inspection-trust to good intentions, tempe
rance in eating and drinkng-and finally trust in the
Bible and the spirit of Christianity taught in the
sermons on the Mount-but not to the sermons of
the modern clergy, who think more Of salaries than
OF salvation.