Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-04
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the best, while butter has fallen TO - cents
FOR choice.
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The Shoe aud Leather Reporter in an arti-
clio on 1.-The Wtni Year." h * this TO say:
From o merely commercial standpoint. the
aspect OF affairs has been anything rat cheer
iul. Fa lures In business have been numer
ous; 1; has been dangerous to be hoYr'ul: the
most confident have been the most unfuriu-
nate Trade has Il Gg cd NIL the VIII e: there
has been good deal of IL, b 4 no ptudt In II
ON the average, the business moa of the
Sountry must have lost some of thDr means
since the year began. The people, tstcn as u
whole, pos os moro u operty than they
did twelve months ago. but there have
been great changes in tho distribution OF
1t, and by those mutations the portion be-
10 ging o the trading classes has essentially
diminished. The men who X Tor wages
have doub less made soaie gain; they have
earned rs much as they ever did. aud spent
less for h ncccssarles of life. Fond md raj
meut have been cheap. The mcrcha Il have
not All been losers Many of the n have en-.
HANGED heir store. But IA sill greater mum.
Der have reduced theirs sadly. The
worst OF IL H., those who Ii d
more than they needed before
are the very ones whose wealth
has increased, whereas those who have been
struggling in the tolls OF al crsity, hoping
against hope that some favorable turn of for
tune would extrlcatc them from thcl difb-
culties have gone down with n or sh. IL ~
the d crime enunclated in Matthew's COS
pei illustrated in our modern life, "for whom
soever hath, 10 him sha be given, and he
sh- II ha moro abundance; but whosocver
hath not, from him shall he taken AWAY,
even that he hath" And yet II must add
pognancS 10 the grief OF the sufferers TO find
that II portion OF what has been taken from
them b, misadventuros has goneinto tho
pockets OF III ker cnmpeers.
The only consolation about all this is that
there are st ong reasons for believing that
the worst is over. The storm of adversely Is
pcrceptibly subsiding. Even the traces OF
ills ravnges are gradually disappearing. a
sense OF impoverlshment pr walls extern
swell in the mercantile community, but
that IL :; harbiuger OF rehabilitation, for IL Is
the most powerful stimulus that could be
given to fresher ANA moro wisely rect ed Of.
fort. Whom people feel the need OF lettering
their circumstance, they instinctively resort
To all the oXpedients that arc likely TO pro-
mote that object and rho tkree.fold instru-
mentalities of prudence, industry ANA frugal
ity will naturally beput into requisltion with
most salutary effect. IL Is 80 this source. ey-
identity, that the pcIule fnu look for relief.
and, Judging by the teachings OF experience,
they will not look in vain. There does not
seem 10 be reasonable ground for expecting
any sudden or startling reaction, nor would
u change uf that kind he Mt all desirable.
We cannot be very far from the bottom now
and the moment we have touched that tho
movement must begin to be- upward.
TIL N, by economy OF means, Skin in
workmanship, caution credits and II care.
ful Limitation oil operations within the range
cons stent with absolute safety. we shan DO
quite sure OF fewer commercial casual ties md
tolerably hopeful OF remuneratlve results
Take italtogother, we arc Disposed to think
tenderly fthe dying year. Its discipline
has been somewhat stern, but perhaps there
was need of 10 all, and good enough will
flow ON II 10 softcn our memories OF the
hurdships that marked its career