The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-12-29
TIaTIT TIMES


broadway, stalks up State Street, looks
in at the Banks, and lounges in the ho-I
tells. He bOres ourmerchanta, and seats
himselfcozily IN lawyers Offices. Heis
eYerywhere..
a great distnrber Of public quiet, a
lpestilent fellow, IS this same TIGHT
Times. Everybody talks about him, ey-
body looks at him, every body hates him
land great many hard words and no
little profane epitaphs are bestowed upon.
him. Everybody would avoid him II
they could, everybody would hiss him
from Change, boot him off the Pier,
8chase him from Quay street, hustle him
1out OF Broadway. kick him out Of the
Banks, throw him out Of the stores, out
3of the hotels, but they can't. Tight
Times is q bore. "a burr-he will stick.
Hints are thrown away on him, abuse
layished in vain; kicks, cuffs, profanity
are thrown away on him. Heis impres
yious to them all.
An impudent fellow Is Tight Times.
Ask tor discount, and he looks, over
your shoulder, Winks to the cashier, and
your note IS thrown out. Ask loan Of
the the nsuers at onepercent permonth,
he looks over your securities and marks
two and half. Present your bill To
your debtor, Tight Times shrugs his
shoulders, rolls up his eyes and YOU must
callagain. a wife asks for fashiona-
bic brocade, a daughter for a new bon
net he puts on bis cravat, and the bro
cade and bonnet are postponed.
"a great depreciator of stocks Is Tight
Times. He steps in among the brokers,
land down goes. Central to par, to ninety
five, ninety, eighty-fve. He plays the.
deuce with Michigan Central, Michigan
4 Southera, with Hudson River, with ~ eW
York and Erie. e goes along the rail-
roads in process Of construction and the
Irishmen throw down their shoVels and
walk away. He puts his mark upon the
railroad bonds, and they find no purcha-
lsers, are Kissed out of market, become
obsolete, absolutely dead.
i "A great exploder of Bubbles is Tight
i Times. He looks into the affairs ofgood
companies, and they fly to pieces; into
Iricketty insurance companies, and they
vanish away. He walks around corner
lots, draws q line across photographic cit
Lies and they disappear He leaves his
footprint among mines, and the rich
lmetal becomes dross. He breaths npon
the cnnningest schemes of speculation,
and they burst like a torpedo.
i a hard master forpoor, a cruel enemy
TO the labouring masses is Tight Times.
He takes the mechanic from his bench,
J the labourer from his work, and the hod-
carrier from his ladder. He runs upthe
prices Of fsul ,a.and heruns down the abili-
/ ltY to purchase it atanY price. Hemakes
little children hungry and cry for food,
J cold and cry for fire and clothing. He
makes poor women sad, makes mothers
| weep, discourages the hearts Of fathers.
carries care and anxiety to families and
sits crouching desolafion inthe corner
J and on the hearthstones of the poor
i "a hard master to the pooris TIGHT TnTEs.
IA curious fellow is TIGHT TINES, full
I ofidiosny cracies and crotchets. A com
r mopolite, wanderer too. Where he
comes from nobody knows and where be
! goes nobody knows. He flashes along
i, the telegraph wires, he takes a free pas
] SAGE ID the cars, he seats himself III The
: stages. or goes on theturnpikes on foo
D els agentleman on Wall street to-day
9 and back settler on the borders fciv
+ lilization to -moIroW. We hear Of him Il
t London, in Paris, in st. Petersburg, a
# Vienna, Berlin, at Constantinople, a
i Calcutta, III China, all over the world
In every great city, ID every lural dis
Itriet. every where.
8 THERE'S one way to avoid being boreC
e by this troublesome fellow Tight Times
II e is the only way for a country, q city
q town, as well as individual men t
4 keep shut of his presence always. lie
s the country that would Danish hin
= beware of extravaganza, of speculation
Of overtrading, of embardng in visiona
Try schemes Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Let
!. keep out Of wars avoid internal commo
tons, and 90 right along, taking care {
It's own interests and hnsb banding its Il
s sources. Let the city that would ez
4 clude him to be economically til its 81
penditures; itldlilging il no scheme {
4 speculation, n1alingno useless improve
At ments building no railroads that Il car
e not pay for, Withholding its credit froI
4; mushroom corporations, keeping dow
8 its taxes, and only going right along
q taking care Of its own interests an
e outstanding It's own resources. Let Ii
Z individual man who would exclude hi
= from bis domestic circle Be industrion
frugal, keeping out Of the whirlpool ,
Is politics, indulging no taste Of ofie
's holding np bis dish when pudding lall
It nom Tie clouds, laying BIZ sometlin