The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-10-18
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'4MOrIey's''.Lcttcrs from New YORK
Nrvy YORN Oct 18th 1870

THE HARP nINEs GOBE
Yes, the hasd times are gone, not going
as We have eagerly tried te believe every
season for years, but HOW literally aud truly
thing of the past. The number ofunem-
ployed is smaller in New York to-day than
before in years. Wages are slightly increas-
ed in several linss ofbusiness. Better prices
are obtained for almost everything Houses
and stores are being built in larger numbers
than any time since 1871. Trade yields a
reasonable psoft. Failures grow beautifully
less in number every quarter. Immigration
is increasing, Merchants report o general
increase of trade. Every week England is
sending US from 81 100000 to $4,000, 900 in
gold to pay our farmers for their grain and
beef and our manufacturers for their pro-
ducts. Last year $4,000 families settled on
government lands, aud turned 5000 900
acres of wild unproductive ground into
blooming harvest fields, to say nothing of
the heavy sales of railroads and private land
holders. Up to June 80 we exported to
Great Britain some $3.50 100000 more than
we bought of her, and all this comes TO US in
gold tc stimulate trade, to pay our farmers,
and dffuse itselfinto every avenue and every
nook and corner of our lately stagnant land.
Our export of cattle alone has grown from
100000 in 1874 to almost 81, 100000 in 1879.
Croak as men please, the hard times are
gone, and we are entering again upon career
ofprosperity more solid and substantial than
ever. Now, what have the
HARD TIMES TAUGHT?
Tney have taught us to be economical,
Many men have been surprised to find how
little was really needed to make life COM
Portable, when forced to make little money
go great ways. They have taught us to
encourage home trade, to import less, to buy
American goods instead of foreign and
thus every branch of American manufacture
has been stimulated, and our mechanics
have themselves been surprised to find that
they were more than match for the boasted
artizans of Europe. As consequence we
are selling American razors aud cutlery in
Sheffield ITSELF because ours are cheaper and
better. We are sending American watches
into markets where Switzerland has held a
monopoly for generations American cotton
goods have invaded even Manchester, and
have driven English fabrics out of markets
not only in England, but in South America,
China and Japan. Our agricultural imple-
ments surpass anything eyer invented or
heretofore used in the old world, and we are
exporting heavily in them. Icould give in
cidents, names and figures in support of all
these statements ifspace permitted. Particu-
larly in iron and steel have we progressed
since the panic of 1878. Then we relied on
English puddlcrs for our best stee!, and on
British rolling mills for our most reliable
bars. Now our processes are so improved
and our workmen so skillful that Pennsyl-
vania actually turns out better and cheap
er Bessemer than we ever imported. We
have also learned much of the useful art ot
distinguishing between gold and glitter,and
the great body of our people are somewhat
shaken IN the universal Dellel nelu quite re-
Gently that there was solid fortune Just
ahead of each one of us. Now we are will
ing to die poor. 1t is glory enough for mos
of us to know that we shall probably escape
, the terrible, crushing, narrowing burdeu:
that many of us have borne these few year:
| past. Times begin 20 grow easier with us
/ Debts will be paid off-oh, rapture! The
day is coming when we may look the whole
world in the face and proudly say al owt
! no man a dollar" 1t makes us feel as W.
f did the day both armies came to a sudder
standstll at Appomatox, and word was pass
5 ed that Lee was capitulatinGj that the gal
liant men in butternut, whom we had iaceI
3 year after year in the lurid glare of battle
. with whom we had wrestled madly for vic
r tory during the weary days and months anC
years were now laying down their arms AM
the war was over. 1t was too good to b
! true But how the blood tinged in our vein
o when we knew it was all true! We Loo
= back and smile at that doubt now. But th
f year 1865 marked the close of four years
war no more truly than 1879 does the en
of six years hard times Let us thank Go
and take courage MORLEY.