Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-10-10
TIC aEs Interested i'm the Crisis
Consolation and Defiance.

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TIC ak Interested in the CRISIS
Consolation and Defiance.
We believe it is generally understood
that DO region in the United States Is IN a
sounder condition and ADLER to face the
hideous music of a financial crisis than our
small space of country known as the Lead
Reqion. The Lead product of the mines,
mainly situated in Wisconsin, is annually
over a million of dollars, all in gold. This
gives us chiefly a gold culrency-just such
a currency as is indispensable in a crisis
The railroads of the northwest have pro-
crossed to the Mississippi, one on the south
side. the other on the north of the Lead
Reqaoa, and the crisis renders it impossi-
bic to extend these roads further west or
north, or even to supersede them by other
roads, for many years. We are therefore
at the extreme west and north of national
and local railroad influence, or, at the
western and northern head of trade-pos-
sessing therefore mopopolising powers for
our farmers and producers, such monopoly
to extend for many years. We are nearest
the great upper country, Minnesota, upper
Wisconsin and Iowa-therefore our produ-
GERS will be first called on to supply any
and every deficiency of those regions; the
same is true of the large lumber region
and any deficiency there. We are at the
head Of the Mississippi for all purposes Of
supply, and also in full command of the
lower Wisconsin. Prairie du Chen with
a city population and the city of Galena-
without rear supplies Of their own must
look to our prairie farms for provisions.
Half scared readers, have you ever be-
fore taken all these facts into considera-
ton? Are not your hearts at ease and
don't you breathe free and strong after a
few thoughts upon these matters? Now
We will add a little wholesome advice
Most of you are indebted to the money
lender for a little more land and to tn
merchant for goods TO clothe your naked
ness and feed your families while ~.mproving
your farms and raising your crops. Nest
of the money-lenders will wait on you if
you will pay up the interest promptly
The merchant must have bis money and
you had better sell your grain at prices
offered and pay him. He has pitied your
appeals for clothes and groceries and sin
ned against himself by yielding to the inn
pulses of his soul. He has credited you
when he could not afford it. Now sell
your surplus, even at low rates and pay
him. Many of you, farmers, are the chief
instrument of the crisis and low prices;
you have money by you, hid in your chests
we know it. Now go Immediately and
let every dollar Of il out into use, and help
to make money p%lentier and prices higher
thereby enabling Others to help you.-
Let it out on note and personal or mort
gage security. with a fair interest-say Is
per cent. There is no possibility of the
whole country breaking and yourself re-
naming solitary monarch because you have
a few dollars. Almost everv man will
stand the crisis and in a year be clear and
erect.
One word to business men and our ap-
peal is finished. Stand the storm if YOU
can do it honorahly. Don't shift your
property or turn it into money and conceal
1t to cheat those you owe. Act the man
and if You fall you will be helped up again
we have never known a man who fell in
dlshonor to ever rise again. Pay out to
the last dollar and sell out below what the |
law allows, and if you are minus the whole
country will be on vour side as long as God
lets you live. Don't sneak into the vii
Iains cloak to hide a few dollars. Go
boldly 10 your creditors, look them in the
face aud speak the truth. Be diIigent a.
mong your debtors; persuade them to aid
you all in their power and they will do it.
Don't rave ard scold; work hard but don't
f.et; be earnest and all will be well.
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Court.
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