Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01
Tho Slow Times.

We do not look for a sudden revival of
 business any longer, says Dr. Holland l in ScTi bner's Monthly. If our diagnosis of the case is correct, there can be no sudden cure. We of this generation will hardly live to see the country genu- inely prosperous. Great masses of prop
 erty are to be abandoned.a The capital stock of multitudes of corporations will be sunk, and their property will pass into the hands of bondholders and credi-
 tors, at such price that they maypos- sibly be made remuneratively useful.
 Hundreds of millions of invested funds will practically cease to exist. The things in which these funds have been l invested cannot be used, and they might just as we'll have been thrown into the | fire. Thus the means of living have been enormously reduced among capi- talists, and more men need work to do than used to need it. With this fact on one side, we find set over against it the other fact, that, of the multitude who
 had adjusted their industry to the con ditions of war, only part are needed
 under the conditions of peace. Teus,
 twenties, tifties are to be counted out of the mills, the factories, the shops, and sent either into idleness, or into some other field of industry. In other words,
 our national industry is to be read justed. va
 The cities and centers which have grown so rapidly will naturally cease to grow. The larger cities will grow, per
 haps, as London grows, by their attrac
 tion for men of wealth, but the men of enterprise will not crowd into placea where there is no work or reward for them. The boys will stand by their fathers farms better" than they have done, and hundreds of thousands of men and women who have left the farm and the farmhouse must return to them. 1t is pleasant to reflect that 8 living can be won from the ground, and that agric!ll- ture holds a certain cure for all our troubles MT. Greeley's old advice, "Go West, young man," was based upon philosophy whose soundness the people of this time cannot question. The tendency in his time was to overdo busi- ness, and that tendency went on, to the distressing results of which all of us are the witnesses and the victims. Y It is pitiful to see men and women lying idle. It is pitiful to see them in great masses thrown out of employment
 We wish they could be made to under stand how hopeless the situation is for at least half of them-how necessary it is that they should seek employment in agricultural pursuits, in lives of indus try adapted to the present circumstances of the country-in anything and any place except that which is proved to be insufficient for their needs. This change must come, and the quicker it comes the better for them and the better for the country. Let us leave nothing to the political doctors. They cannot help us with, any of their schemes, except by giving us an honest financial system. Even this cannot work the miracle of making people consume more than they want, and of supplying work where it IS not needed. ,e The American people are not lacking in shrewdness, patience, adaptiveness, and industry, and the good time will come, though it is likely to be long delayed. E.JJ A. E