Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-14
COMMUNICATIONS.
4 a Look Ahead"

stA Look AhSad.''
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL and COURIER have road with profit your very sensible editorial last week under the above heading You are very right, that tho past year has been trying one to all classes of business and winding up with the thousand bankrupt cies, involving $173, LOGO, GOO, is heavy load to start the new year with. At the same time it is true that it makes no serious difference except to them who are the losers. for, in al most every case, where one loses, some one else gains. In the process of property chang ing hands there is temporary standstill and
 here comes the greatest loss, to wis to the operatives, for they are thrown out or work and their time Is lost, which loss Is real one. moi only to them, but to the country at large
 It is useless in these days of rapid inventions and changes to mark out any plan which will ureyent disasters, and yet we may do much by legislation to mitigate them. For instance. e general bankrupt law-not one made simply to get the better of rogues, for they take care of themseIves-but one which, whom an hon. est. contemplating man fails and gives up his all and turns il over to the proper officer shall give him a clearance of his debts at once go that his remaining years, with his experl- encss, may benefit the country and make pro- vision for his family and his own old age In tnl6 there 15 nO AAS1o n1fosh1P IAnn IA taking what dead bankrupt leaves, and surely it is a hard fate, to be obliged to die, to get rid of ope's debts.
 One thing is certain, that grinding along
 without bankrupt law has led to greater re- vuIsions than need have been and to the use lsgs waste of time in setting wheels In motion under new managements, for the unfortu- mates belong largely. to the list of mon of en- tarprise and their ser rvices are needed more than in prosperity, but they are crushed down and out and few ever get upon their feet again.
 Then there are thirty-eight or more States, all passing full book of new laws every year, some reedfnl, some revengeful, and some retaliatory upon sister States, so that the country is iargon of courts, laws, penalties and impedimenis to business, and no man knows what laws surround hioa, for he may be in 8 dozen different States within as many weeks and be transacting business at the peril of being arrested, because he has not complied with some local law which he never heard of in his life, while, on the other hand, he may go to England. France. Germany Holland. Belgium, etc, and do bnsiness Witn ont let or hindrance, so long as ne pays ms way and his debts.
 We are a law-ridden people with heavy taxes and stamp acts upon us so that every mans person and property and nusiness IS bright and shining light of domestic oppres- sion We hays too many State laws, and too few national laws and we are thus burdened, because Congress does not do it's duty and pass laws vhich would do away with hundreds of attempts of States to pass laws, which, all told. make muddle as to '' life, liberty and property'' of citizens of the United States, and the States do it simply because Congress does not. MORRIS.