Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-02-18

How SHALL WE LTvE?- "A valuable
lesson may be drawn from the follow
ing editorial renarks in the Peniasals
Farmer. . journal published at Sails
bury, Nd. To adapt the remarks to
this section Of the State, only . slight
modification il necessary. The advice
given in the closing Paragraph, thoueh
hard to practice, would undoubtedly
care many of the evils attributed TO
"hard times :"
Although one of the most seriou1pxo-
blems Of life has alway . been, How shall
I've Hive? yet at this iunctilfe in This 10
cality il assumes graver significance
than in times of ordinary activity and
business prosperity. No longer-as it
is sometimes when uttered-is it an
idle jest with the great body Of the
farming and aboring classes. "Hard
times! No money !" comes from every
hand, and is on almost every tongue
And it is no false cry Of "Wof! Wolff"
when there is no wolf. The times are
actually hard. Money is actually scarce.
The people but utter what they feel and
know.
We do not have to look far for the
causes Of this state Of depression and
hard times, for it is not altogether due
to the financial condition of the coun-
try. For many years the people Of this
county have been largely engagedin in the
manufacture of lumber. They said
farming didn't pay. but the making of
lumber would. And even If farming
would pay in the end, the processes by
which that end could be reached were
far too slow and required them to wait
too long. whereas by the latter money
could much more rapidly be obtained.
With the mania-for becoming sudden
ly rich the whole country was flied
with steam mills, and was soon expsc-
ted to be metamorphosed into an Ell
Dorado. The serried forests of pine
were no longer allowed to cumber the
earth, but were moved down right and
left. But the mills cost money, and the
facilities for transporting both timber
and lumber cost money. And with the
increase Of money! kind of in tram
situ increase-was an increase Of wants.
The lu1nber was made; the money re-
ceived for il, but it was spent as soon
as made to live upon and to purchase
luxuries not hitherto attainable. We
can't be excelled by our neighbers, no
matter bow rich they are! Such is the
Observation-Disclosures Of life. So
the money went And the lands were
fnr poorer tharHhen the manufacture
of lumber on large scale began.
And now what The lumber is gone,
the money spent and hard times upon
us? What's to be doneI
We can see but one way out of it
It is slow one, but it is the only sure
one. Let the people throw away their
pride and go back to the plain primitive
style of living Of their fathers and grand
fathers. They must live within their
incomes. Buy less than they SELL
Save! Retrench 4! Economic! Let
them teach their wives and daughters
to do the same. If need be, let them
60 back to the homespun. Let them
raise as nearly all they eat as possible.
Let them manufacture as nearly all
they wear as possible. Let them re-
member they must look to the Soil only
for permanent support, and with this
view spare no effort to improve Il and
bring it up to high state of cul.iva-
tion. BY this means they will lay the
basis for sure and lasting prosperity,
such as no sudden panic or fitful strin-
gency in the money market can long
impair.