The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-18
THE DAILY INTELLIGENCER II
rHE WEEKLY fNTEiLiGENCEK
Official Press Of King County.
Tuesday, June 18. 1878.
THE SEASON AND ITS NEEDS

Men do not gather grapes of thorns
or figs Of thistles. Neither do they
pick blackberries in January or pitch
snowballs in July. There never was
q season or circumstance but that its
counterpart followed apace, and to the
steadfast the harvest time with its
bounty succeeds to the penury of the
sowing. Conditions are not fixed and
changeless.
1t happens that in commercial
sense the present is q season OF dearth
and famine. The elimination of the
resumption movement has stricken
with a temporary paralysis nearly
every branch Of industry except the
tilase of the soil The coming Winter
will witness the termination Of this
disturbing cause. Then we will see a
change Instead of money being nearly
all withdrawn from use, it will again
flow freely into circulation. The green
backs being redeemed, new series will
be issued to take the place of those re-
tired in equal quantity, whilst for every
dollar Of the currency retired by re-
sumption gold or silver dollar will
be put into circulation as q substitute.
Therefore. instead of being contracted,
the outlook for our currency on and
after January next. is that it will
really be doubled in amount as the pro-
cess of resumption goes on. and instead
Of being held in few hands, as now,
the operation of resumtion will be to
send life giving streams throughout all
the channels ofbusiness and departments
of industry among the people.
The practical improvement in
connection with this subject is
how to conduct during the trying ordeal
of waiting and suspense that impends
until that contamination so devoutly
to be wished Is reached. If we need
store of fruits. we wait until the Sum.
mer days come around and bring them
So if We need money which cannot be
got, it is equally incumbent to wait
patiently until the settlement day
But the very worst regimen TO. such
y condition of disease as hard times,
that could possibly be adopted is hoard
ing. Instead of remedy it is pois
on that only aggravates instead of
allays the fever of the public pulse. II
owing to causes that are too wide
reaching to be beyond the power of
local control, the stock of currency at
the command of the body polite is
temporarily too limited to suffice ade-
quately for the transaction of its bust
ness thus inducing universal embarrass
ment. then it follows as a matter Of
course, that the policy best calculated
to mitigate the Inconvenience is to
multiply to the greatest possible extent
the circulation of what money can be
obtained for the purpose. If one dol
lar can be made to effect the same
amount of work in exchanges and
settlements that is done by two in erdi-
nary times, by reason of being moved
from hand to hand twice as rapidly as
usual, the currency. in effect. is doubled
for oil practical purposes. All who
have tho good of the community at
heart and whose lives arc modulated by
the spirit of the golden rule, will Ger.
tainly act on this principle. Instead of
INDUCING panic-terror and drsading
calamities ahead that are not destined
tn fall, all who have place in the
busy haunts of active life, instead of
letting their gates get off the hinges,
old paint crack and drop off their
houses. rotten sidewalks grow still
more dilapidated and everything about
them assume a look of general shift
lessness and caved.in" appearance.
should take advantage of the times to
spruce up inside and out. What If il
does cost little money. it will furnish
job for your neighbor just when he
most needs it, besides, the keeping up
of your own credit demands it. Keep
stiff upper lip and clean con-
science. and DO the fair thing whatever
betide; then if all go down together in
. heap, let it be with colors all set and
in brave style.