New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-31
DISHONESTY TO BE MADE UNPOPULAR.

HOW PANICS AND BUSINESS srAGNATIoN CAN BIZ
BROUGHT To AN END.
TO the Rdttor or the Tribune.
SIR: There is no better policy for civilized
community than that of liberal expenditure To let live
a. well as live should be motto and unless we acs
on these principles Ii requires prophet TO forccl thas
the parable OF the Improbable servant will have hada
national illustration with the difference that Ia this case
it will who received five talents that has oeen
too prudent to and enjoy tncm Inequalities in
the eompcston OF labor and Of capital invested IN tho
different occupations cannot be remedied excepe
by the natural tendency OF mankind TO Leave
the unreinunerative employment and enter into
the more profitable 1t 10 probable that long ~
the fertile soil the sun ever shone on gwen away
TO whoever will settle 1t, money invested in loss
fertile farms In the older States will not double very tst
and it also probable that long as so great surplus
OF farm produce raised that forms the principal bulk
Of the exports from this country, tho compensation
for labor applied the farm will he less than in those
OCCUPATIONS whore such surplus Is not produced or n
not 80 great the price OF the whole produces
to be governed by tho price which foreign nations arc
wiling to pay. But time will also equalne this,
for as the acres limited by natural boundaries the
timo will come here, as 1t has In other countries
when other classes win consume all tho proucs Oh
the SOIL and then the advantage will be with the agiicu-
turl class any inequality exists. So that appeasto
me that farmers when prices are low for everything
they have to sell ought to wish that there were more OF
classes fed many that they would he obliged 70
nay the farmers their products the basis OF what
The could be imported from foreign countries 'or'
courage growth OF the other classes instead OF how
they force them into their own oveirrowded ranks
Notwithstanding what have said In favor OF Liberal
expend ture do not h. any means forget that therc
such word extravaganza. which has It's PROPER aIpli,
cation Dishonesty OF ts component p'rts ana
though the word has proper application IN seakng OF
this nation any whole class OF society, 1t Is MY ap
piled To the dishonest men In all Classes Ivory ,han
who does not pay bills in full ia just much dead
weight the shoulders OF al the rest Of ms elbow men,
bit divided up and shared by the whole balance OF INC
community in the shape Of an extra hay ci K ON
the labong than all National ana State aud mnnici
along by the nineteenth century. making ITS progress
ftfu and irregular instead OF constant ana seny ASH
the pockets Of the honest worncn a. II was regularly
deducted their weekly wages. The remedy Is IN tho
to use it, 1t beyond the power OF the mercantile class
to effect the reform alone while the people homer asnSn
is extended To them In the church, III te grange ana ia
the woranen union ana they are sOSc % "a f
lows and considered as desiraee memeIs IN e'cn
aiScsoH as asr of ss tsfy SrTs '"'
When membership and position in church and work.
honorable financial record when first question which
associations AMI society generally ask about man ~ D2cs
lac live within his income when the Oh lno
community their faces like hSt against dishonesty
in every form. and when fully understood that thc
man who wears coat which he has not and does not
inten pay for has cheated the same out OF every
man he meets: when the preachers teach as did me
prophets OF old that honesty Is an lndlspcnsabio
ingredient Of pcty and that mans duty TO God 70
nav his honest debts before gives to public ana Quart
table purposes then tie exOrbltant prohts when SOW
crugns of Industry and farmers oranges are stnmpns
about will come to end For the mercantile class.
wuen il understands that the man who fails 10 pay ana
can give better reason for II than extrdyegahc VIII
treated with contempt by his fellows VIII no LONGER
be TO sell goods credit at close rOrt anu INC
honest buyer will lind the saving thus made 50 fr'as
that the comforts and Injuries which have hitherto o,en
OuopolLed by this dishonest class VIII now he Wnh
the reach OF the honest and industrious who deserve
Them and to whom they have always rghtiuly belonged
II il not much thc lack OF specie basis Tor our
uation 1t is the lack of public opinion making
dishonesty odious rs basis Tor our credit system ''
keps these dull times with long. IL was tue ex
posture of di.hOn sly gigantic scale IN the cosuc
ton OF railroad and in the issuing OF the stock OF
others That destroyed the conf lcce Of the people IN Tai
road stocks generally. and caused them To refuse ue
| bonds OF those roads which We're peins heso.i
| ated by the firm with whose ia lure the rre,ent
| panic began. And tho knowledge that th.io
| IA no public sentiment which viii stamp tho
brand Of scOundre On the man who ncsets 10 pay To-
gether with the advice given ndlscrinlhaey % al 70
reduce their expenses 10 the lowest possible limits ana
tho that whole class of soclc'y were us.rss
drones and must DO got rid Of even II they nave 10 90
ed these WORKING OSetncr are inc Ioceo "pV"
These organic tos OF the separate classes OF society
by themselves, these oranges aud unions ana mahuisv
trers associations powerful agencies Sr e.i or Iot
good. according their energies are directed agahs
each other exerted in cooperation II they can mug
no higher work 10 do than attempting To control anu
snacke and destroy each other IL would have been pee
for this country they had never been born INTO OK
istenee but II they will unite together IN determines
! effort to make extravaganza and penlrlOusnesss
| equally odous, aud wake themselves 70 the trutn
that all bills which not paid Dy the maker Of them
and finally come out OF every honest man uS ACT, 80
they can succeed IN making dishonesty so unpopular u
der the name OF extravaganza and fraud as u - no" u
der that Of petty theft the panic and the dull times WIZ
| both come 10 speedy end together L. l.
| gest 0nnmiagton, Mass, July 20. 1875.