Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-01-29
How Shall We Live

A valuable lesson may be drawn from
the following editorial remarks in the Pen
insula Farmer. a journal published at Sails
bury, Nd. To adapt the remarks to this
section Of the State. only slight modii-
cation is necessary. The advice given in
the closing paragraph, though hard to
practice. would undoubtedly cure many
of the evils attributed to hard times"
Although one of the most serious problem:
Of life has always been. How shall We live
yet at this juncture in this locality i, assume:
a graver significance than in times of ordinary
activity and business prosperity. No longer
as II is sometimes when uttered-is il an idl,
jest with the great body of the farming and
laboring classes. Hard times No money -
comes from every hand, and is on almost every
tongue. And il is no false cry of "W off
Wolff when there is no wolf The times ar,
actually hard. Money isactually scarce The
people but utter what they feel and know
We do not have 10 look far for the causes OF
this state Of depression aud hard times. for il i:
not altogether due TO the financial condition O
the country For many years the people o.
this county have been largely engaged in III,
manufacture of lumber. They said farming
didn't pay, but the making of lumber would
And even if farming would pay in the end, III,
were far too slow and required them to wait
too long, whereas by the latter money could
much more rapidly be obtained. With III,
mania for becoming suddenly rich the whole
country was filled with steam-mlls and was
soon expected TO he metamorphoscd into an FL
Dorado. The scrried forests of pine were nc
longer allowed to cumbcr the earth, but ere
moved down right and left. But the mill.
cost money, and the facilities for transporting
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the increase of money! kind of in trdRsifu in.
creaSe-was an increase of wants The lumber
was made the money received for it. but
it was spent as soon made to live upon and
to purchase luxuries not hitherto attainable.
We can't be excelled by our neighbors, nc
matter how rich they are! Such is the Ameri.
can-republican-ide of life. So the money
went. And the lands were far poorer than
when the manufacture of lumber on large
scale began.
And now what? The timber is gone, the
money spent and hard times upon us? What 5
to be done?
We can see but one way out of it. 1t is a
slow one, but it is the only sure one Let the
people throw away their pride and 90 back to
the plain primitive style of living of their
fathers and grandfathers. They must live
within their incomes. Buy less than they sell
Save! Retrench Economize! Let them teach
their wives and daughters to do the same. II
need be- let them go back to the homespun
Let them raise as nearly all they eat as possi-
BILE. Let them manufacture as nearly ali they
wear as possible. Let them remember they
must look to the Soil only for permanent sup
port, and with this view spare no effort to i'm
prove it and bring it up to II high state of cul.
tivation. By this means they will lay the
basis for sure and lasting prosperity, such as
no sudden panic or ftful stringencv In the
money market can long impair.