Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-11-05

er the rent, the mare expense, the greater the
show, and the larger the trade. Runners speed
in all directions TO drum up customers of all
sorts, who make large purchases on long cred
its. Monopolies and rivalries require and seem
to justify. all articles on the ground of selfde-
fence. Not content with a simple business pur-
sued in this uncertain way, they must dabble in
stocks. and, for their better accommodation, be-
come drectos in banks, insurance offices and
railroads take shares in all adventurous specu-
Iations. from Lake Superior to the mountains
of the moon There is no end to their enterpri-
ses and expected wealth They are wonderful
men Astenishingly successful! And all me
chanical business proceeds in NEARLY the same
way tyro becomes overseer, and then sets
up on his own account; consolidates credit by
uniting the names Of others, and on they go
employing hundred hands to make collars or
clocks, pins OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN deep
water before learning to swim at all.
Manufactures of cash on credit are built up
to aid these experiments. Constitutional mo-
ney is melted into bullion and sent on. of the
land, to buy Injuries or articles better made at
home, or done without, and pictured promises
are substituted to circulate as currency-things
most plenty when least wanted, and good for
nothing when really needed!
! Thus business has been managed for years
| past. Firms, corporations, cities and nations
have become rivals to each other and every
risk has been taken and every hazard run in q
sort of desperate self-defence. But there is q
limit TO all finite things, beyond which expan
sion cannot go. i There is in the very nature OF
things day of judgment, when all accounts
must be settled ut last. And these days ofreck.
onng are all necessary and beneficial. The world
cannot stand without them. 1t is a severe but
just and salutary trial, and a sad one to then
that shall be found wanting, but full of instruc
ton for all who are willing to learn.
The saddest part of the matter grows out o.
the fact that the innocent, the whole community
must suffer. while there will be fat picking fol-
knaves. Blu; So it is and has long been, tina
zone sinner deslroyeth much good" The ca
lamity falls heaviest, as in besieged city, upon
those least able to bear it. The heaviest bank
rupts will lose no meas--few luxuries-not many
bottles of wine; while the humble laborers-
alas what will they do! The tree that falls il
the forest brushes hundred shrubs to the earth
The 'chieftain nm0rtalizes bis name in battle by
the sacrifice of thousands as good or better thai
himself. What shall these poor men dol Then
wives and children look to them for a sheltel
and for bread. Where shall they get it!
This is the most fearful part. Those men wh'
have monopolized all kinds of business and
failed, have helped TO keep humble and more
careful labore.s ont of the establishment of Il
small, permanent and paying business,fo for every
thing of late has been done on n grand scale or
not at all. 1t could not otherwise hope to pros
per- Small enterprises have been crushed out
beneath huge Juggernauts which too many have
fostered and worshipped. l do not count that
man benefactor no steps between the hard
handed producer, and his customer to rob him OF
his rightful profit. These great monopolies may
enrich individuals and advance a town, but
they create distinctions, and beget feeling OF
dependence and produce revusions which really
retard the progress Of civilization, and hinder
the growth of Il manly independence and per-
sonal prosperity. And immense commercial
houses are far more dangerous than manufactur-
ing monopolies, and the temptations to evil are
vastly stronger, because the means and ends
are more facile and nearer at hand. But these
are among the Lessons of the Times" pro-
posed for another occasion.
We have seen, think satisfactorily, that the
inordinate desire 10 get rich, aud speedi y-not
SO much for the money, or the good it may do,
as for the show we can make with it, is the prin-
ciple cause Of the evil that is come upon us"
They who have been most avariclously and
hazardously engaged in s'making haste to be
rich, have had most to do in the production of
the troubles and fearful approximations which
have fallen on the Whole community, and this
viii be the severer punishment. God help us
all to learn wisdom from the past that we may
in al things serve him better in the time to
come.