Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-10-28
4 Cure for the Hard Times.

We are al helped hv our necessities. and
few Of Us escape harm from our opporiu
mites Il j. a blessing To NJ that mus;
get hv work and keep hy care. The Prince
of Wales has recently been helped oui OF
debt hy his royal moth + having gone
three millions of dollars hryonl the rev
uIlc of VAT and fertile estates What
chances for decent ami frugal living ale
wanting To a man who cannot ret ont Of
morry-thr nation OF the ihron" being
certain to pay what he cannot, : Passing
rich at furiv pounds 4 wear. i NJ the same
lime true OF 4 multitude If Queen Veto
ria : subjects. who in contcntmcnt eat their
wcll-carned bread.
! The true economy i 10 cut down or
wants and We are upon times when the
necessities of our case enforce this lesson.
/ Hard times are not an evil To society at
/ larnc-at least not such i'll our American
condition. Flush times are always moral
lv dangerous. prepare the WAY for politi-
cnl disasters. and threaten general wreck
Ii i> 4 miracle that we survive the album
dance If the ten wears before lN13 \ full
treasury promoted official dishonesty. gam
bling in national enterprises. and general
weakening of conscience. Our cities filled
up with people who lived we'll without
rendering society any service: oar clHrchcs
learned to t,.prnd on purses and to dcspis,.
PRAYERS; our political life lost honor and
our social life, took u strong taint of lust
A praverlc>s man with money became 4
pillar of the church and the praying saint
retired from the bc,iizencd altar 10 the far
end of the church. Every day brought Il
story of official robbery. and divorce courts
and opcn advocacy of bclstlv relations be
tween The SEXES showed that the purpose
10 hare Il g0od h1ne in the world was invad-
in" the stncttllricS of virtue
W. were. brought up with round turn
4 habit of confidence formed when men
generally deserved it WAS broken up by :,
sudden discovery that ro@ues had become
numerous and that profits We're being re-
duceu hv knavcrv. At first we resisted
the lesson and refused the duty brought to
our doors. :. Ii i nothing; it will pass
; more money will cure ii. But the chang
had come to STAY until honest industry
shall repair the waste of idlene>s and ra>
calitv; until the roguc> are thinned in the
] market places, ana the love of righteous
ness gecs the upper hand of the love o
ease.
It would seem thu. Providence pointed
Ms continually To- the secret of our trouble
We do not lack food. The mines Still
{ Weld precious ores The stc:im-engine ha
net lost its cunning. An abundant hlr
Z vest an ample supply of labor, and more
; money than we know what to do with
+ Was there ever in the world a pro-tratior
;; more decisively moral and religious
Nor do we lack enterprise. or chance
for it, or places where it would yield re
turns. We do not succeed in getting TIL
# money and the enterprise together w
/ stand aloof from each other in distrus,
e We have temporarily lost our cunning i
the combinations that produce genera
ol thrift. The cunning hand is stricken wit
d the paralysis of commercial immortality
i We want reforms at the bottom of til
70 social machinery.
: These reforms are slowly going forward
IL We are climbing back into comfort; bt
Of we rise by toil.ome steps, not on golde
wings. We see every day some sign
l. the popular impatience with this moder
%. %. ton in our progress, and this impatienc
discloses a false belief We are not to +