Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-09-22
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amItY TO not a few. Many business man
mas recently gone BY the board, who a
month ago thought himself wealthy and
secure !; some VINO had retlrtd oa a COM
petenct have been swept away ty the out
gong tldt. When banking concerns like
the ONO Life and Trusl give way, II were
idle longer 10 pretend thar the revulsion
IS fictitious OF imaginary, and 90 Oh raIl-
lag at the bears aud the crOakcrs as has
been the silly habit OF some would-be
leaders OF opinion throughout the months
past IA when tHs Storm mas ben pa
lily brewing. The reprobate excluded
from Noau's Ark, who, when convinced
that he couid not gam abundance, declar-
cd that he" dId ut believe there was 90
ing 10 be uuCa OF a shower" poke as
sensIbIy and nationally these raiIers
at the manifest porteuto IN the CONNER
cal sky and All WAC would not refuse TO
see them. We as people have been 60
ing wrong for some Tune past. We have
bought aud imported too much, consider
ing what we mad to export and and sell.
No man, 40 community, no nauOu, can at
ford to tug aud Cousum5 mach more than
Itproduces Tor sale aud sells. TAere are
p~iy or seeming exceptions TO this rule
cases ID W-Icu = nation exports, say Ice,
uyoIced as costing lItlIe or uOAIug, and
sells 1t for Sugar or Coffee, iuyoIccd al u
much hIgler value. Here Is an apparent
Lut no rooI discrepancy between LNPor.s
and IlupOlts--a seeming balance ag1Iuo,
the country growing Out OF 4 trdae Dy
winch 1t uas really proti.ed-Lut II does
not shake the fundamental truth mat wuo-
al /
SCI! to at least AID equal am, uat, or he
IS inevitably running behind land, and
doomed - amua Trassneut If not Insoy-
ency. tAt farmer whose stOre-bilI IS
SJUO Year while tie turns of but $500
worth OF produce. may be capital fiuan-
clrr, auI nave cao.ce farm, and good
hackers and eXcuilln nj credit ut all these
cdu40. save nan from bankruptcy. unless
ne reHds his hand Uuul some way
snail be devised OF making pound bal
ance twenty. our ounces Iu an even scale, |
country Importing 50 nucl and export
I.tg comparatively so Ii tie as We nave
recently been dong. Is making stera-way
rapidly, ana viii 60 on tie breakers ii
SIC does 10, talk no modern improve
ll,rnto ~ naTIg Itiol can J0y.ate TINS. +
OH- o tus rNo things we mas. do
E.t-.>r stop wearing 80 many silks aId
drinking freely saol capital vines, OF we
must produce tLe.i at home or produce
great deal more whcreWItEaI to pay ior
lheln. And We do not believe The pro-
ducug goat deal more OF our present
s.ap S IS practicable alternative. Take
this years crops for illustration. We can T
export great deal more Grain Of inns
wears tina IA W. have 81 ,,f f,1I = "a r.
harvest tut who wItl tuy n< aud al
what rates Let US undertake. to pay for
on fourth OF our imports with grain or
flour, and prices Will tail 50 that our Was
tern farmers will hardly be paid for har-
Tvstin9 and fitting for market. IAe dIt-
terence between ten and twenty ork
shiL!nSs Per tusagi as the PRICE Of wheat
III Newly oFN or Liverpool, IS the differ
enc between twelve and two silllIngs IN
IN pFtce ot THAI same wheat IN central
ILLINOIS or Io"a-a serious matter 10 the
grower. we m.ght have good prices
stSadLy ana reliably Tor our tram II we
made our own Wares and Fabrics; but
So long as we largely or manly import
theSe, the soWer OF gram bays ticket IN
eoinhleFtIal loitery' WAith may yield
nun uotlafo o, pehSe, as the fluctuations
OF io"Ign crops and foreign markets shall
deI' rm'ne. Through every Winter, we
nave N ana women standing unwilling
y idte W"o' II -uiiy emPioyed' would make
al a4d more tiiah an, iHe Metals, Wares
ana taorIcs Tor winch we run year by
year deeper and deeper ~ debt, untII we
can get III aebt 40 further, and then comes
a crash, like that now threatened Bank
ruptcy i the only remedy we will accept
Tor our persistent folly.
We trust many, If not most of those now
under cloud Will uItmately recover
We sympa'hlse with them as for scape-
goats OF our National sins. They are
rarely worse than the rest OF us--sedOm
and public spirited. They have tried to
carry through til 5 or that railroad or 9TH
er iaudabie enterprise and failed in the