The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-08-06

or create value where there is no valueg
Can we not see that we are one in the
great family Of nations, and that the
laws OF financial intercourse, which the
universal experience Of mankind have
established, are binding upon us; aud
that we cannot disobey them with i'm
pupity?
Surely we ought 10 see this. We
ought To see that our legislation would
be as impotent against these laws as
the Popes bull against the comet.
These laws are fixed by higher power
than ours, aud we cannot change them,
try as we may. We may bunt our own
brains out against them. il we choose,
but that will not affect the laws. Sup
pose we initiate our currency again,
what then? We shall go through pre-
cisely what We have already been
through? We shall have high prices,
speculation, more extravsgance and
another collapse.
1t would afford n temporary relief
undoubtedly. Money would be plen-
tier for time, and money would get
out of debt. but they would be just as
likely 10 get in again. Indeed, another
reign OF cheap money would only make
us worse off than we are now. After
we had eaten our second cake that we
had obtained by these promises to pay,
! (or promises not To pay, and pay day
had come around again, we would fiud
| that our last state was worse than the
first, for we should have two cakes to
/ pay for instead of one.
Let me tell you nv friends, that
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we can pay our debts aud get permi-
nent relief. The road out of this diff
iculty is straight aud narrow one.
There is no broad highway 70 prosper
ity. IL is the narrow way our fathers
travelled, OF industry, economy aud
honesty. We may as we'll look this
matter squarely in the face, first as
last. We have got to pay our debts to
make good the wealth destroyed by
the war, by creating more wealth
through and by honest, hard work.
BY no sharp practices, can we escape
the responsibilities which our war
placed upon us.
Aud every man must understand that
he has a responsibility in this matter.
The whole is made mp Of the parts the
nation is composed of individuals. and
every individual mnst do his work, or
the nation caunot do its work. What
YOU aud do, affect the body polite,
as pebble thrown into the sea moves
the water from center TO circumference.
Our labor. economy aud honesty, help
the whole nation. Our idleness, prodi-
gality aud dishonesty, injure the whole
nation. Every one, therefore, has a
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anybody or anything else. II he would
see better times. let him try honestly
to make the times better by his own in
dividual effort
First, let every man work. Let him
10 something. No man has a right to
he idle If he can find ought 10 do. No
matter II the wages are small, better
work for small wages than not at all.
The laboring man is only making his
own condition more desperate, when
ne refuses fifty cents day, because he
cannot get dollar. Infinitely better
take the fifty cents and go TO work,
than TO staud idly on the street corn
ers, denouncing the times aud carrying
nothing home To his family but curses
and imprecatlons.
And every employer should try to
furnish all the work he can. he has
no right TO turn any man of for whom
he can possibly furnish work. No
matter IL his labor does not pay n big
profit; II he can use hun without abso-
lnte loss. it Is his duty to use him.
What right has a wealthy farmer. FOL
instance, to turn of his help, thinking
that he can get along in tome way with
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temptable is that spirit, which having
an abundance OF everything, refuses to
employ a needy brother man, merely
because he cannot speculate out OF his
labor Let every man then, we say,
furnish all the work he can, and LEI
every man work.
Again We must practice economy.
We mist live within our income. We
must not spend our money until We
earn it, and then not quite all OF it.
We must not eat quite all our cake
We must stop running into debt FOL
things that we can just as well gel
along without; stop mortgaging the fu'
ture to spend on the present, especially
On hxuries. il is no time for the III
lividual or the nation to indulge IN
Injuries. The nation has no business
now TO engage ia aEy Enterprises thai
promises TO benefit nobody but the
contractors. Getting up great shows
at the national expense is very poor
business. Any and every scheme foI
spending the public money for tn,
benefit OF the individual or any class
Of individuals, ought TO be strictly re
sisted. We cannot afford, as a nation
Just now. to make any but paying in
vestments.
So with the individual. He too
must practice economy. he must Gu
of his Injuries. He must come down
out Of the air of ex rayagance, and ge;
On rock bottom. Especially must h'
cut off the luxury Of dissipation. Dc
you know what is sapping the very vi
, tails of the American people? Dissipa
ton, vice and intemperance, In all IT.
various forms. What immense SUM
we are paying every year for that which
Is worse than useless. Saying nothing
II other vices, what does the luxury O
, smoking aud drinking cost MS? Wha
10 we pay every year for the luxury
II getting drunk, or muddying oul
, brains with tobacco? A hundred thou
, sand dollars would not pay the tobaccS
aud liquor bill OF this city.
Think then, what the whole country
pays, and then wonder at the har,
! times II you can. IL this squanderinI
Of wealth, this literal burning up o.
; the very substance Of life in the fire
. II perdition, could be stopped, how
vast would he the relief But you say
no use Of talking about that; that neve
? | will aud never can be done. Well. le
. me tell you that all your efforts 10 fnC
, relief will fail unless you do this. AL
your schemes for improving the time
; will largely fail unless this tremendou
waist is stopped. God will never worl
? a miracls 10 save this land from finan
| cial disaster and ruin, 80 long as W
z persist in pouring his bounty down ou
e throats in liquid poison, or blowing i
I away in villianous smoke. In this, a
/. in other things. We must reap what W
j. SOW.
> Finally we must practice honesty
= Provide things honest In the sight q
n all men," ought 10 be stamped upo
4 every banner, and engraved upon ever
!. heart. The NATION, as we'll as the indI
vidual, needs TO learn anew, aud lear
= with a mighty emphasis, that alway
Q and every where honesty is the bes
V policy" Our national debt ought {
. be regarded 10y every man as sacred.
q II is the price OF our national exisi
' ence. Where would We have been tc
/. day IL the world had refused 10 lend u
material aid in the day Of our trialp
o 10 had refused then TO cash our paper
K What would have become Of us as a M
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