Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-30
pusiNess PROPHECIES

nUoAN 80 EAOEn ECthscA
II Is alleged that q man named SAM
UEL BENNER lives In the town Of Dun
das, Ohio. He Is advertised % an Ohio
farmer. Notwithstanding this modest
occupation, he has had the audacity to
write book which is entitled "Ben-
ner's Prophecies" in which he forecasts
the business outlook for many years In
advance. He has strength as q writer,
and numerous bankers and business
men who have read his book and tried
10 find ont who and what he is, have
been baffled in the attempt. Mr.. BEN
NER, or whoever he may be, has writ
tep'an interesting book, and gives the
prices of pig iron, hogs, corn and pro-
visions for . great many years. His
argument Is that the condition Of busi-
ness in this country is regulated by the
ups and downs in prices Of these neces-
sites. In general way he Is like
weather prophet who take the records
Of the past, assumes that history will
IT neat itself, and strikes a general aver.
age in bis prophetic soul to determine
the future. This IL what BENNER has
done in business.
What people are most interested in,
relative 10 the contents Of the book, is
The fact that the next panic is set down
for the year 1891. Mr.. BRENNER ar
rives at this result as follows:
Commencing with the commercial
revulsion of 1919, we find that 1t was
eighteen years to the crisis Of 1887,
twenty years to the crisis Of 1887, and
sixteen years to the crisis Of 1873,
making the order of cycles sixteen,
eighteen and twenty years and repeat.
The cycle of twenty years was COM
pleted in 1857, and the cycle OF sixteen
years ending in 1878 was the commence
ment of the repetition OF the same order.
It takes panics fifty-four years in their
order to make revolution, or to return
in the same order; the present cycle of
eighteen years will end in 1891; when
the next panic will burst upon us with
all its train of woes"
Further on Mr.. BRENNER informs us
that this panic will not be confined in
a selfish way to the United States or
this continent, out it will sweep all over
the world and be felt with equal severity
in other countries. Not only that, but
il is to produce "a universal suspension
of specie payments and the closing up
of all the banks IN this country"
The idea that the next panic will not
come until 1891 will rather surprise the
long-faced eroakers who are standing
round and predicting panics every
week. It is quite distance OIL and
Mr.. BRENNER fills in the intermediate
space with sort OF "fair middling"
Kind of business from now until 1888.
Then 'tall business will be prosperous,
corn and hogs will be on the advance,
agriculture and manufacture will be
active, and all trades and industries will
make money up to the year 1884,"
when the panic will be here, if it ar
rives on schedule time.
We present this information to our
readers because to be forewarned is to be
forearmed. An ounce of prevention is
equal to ton of cure. There is not q
single reader OF THE REGISTER, not a
single advertiser who enriches himself
by the use of our columns, who will
have any excuse for going under in 1891
We have pointed out this prophecy OF
Mr.. BRENNER. REGISTER readers and
advertisers should put in lots of hard
work and make money in big sums from
now until the close OF 1890, and then put
their houses in order. With this warning
THE REGISTER and all its readers and
advertisers ought to stand the gale
of 1891 handsomely and safely. The
bankers and merchants and the people
who waste their time on other news
papers will go down to destruction in
1881. Then will they realize when it Is
100 late the lasting benefit which live
paper like THE RFGSrER cOnfers upon
rs tens of thousands of patrons by CIV
ing them their prophetic warnings in
time 10 avoid the rocks of business nav
igation.