The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-12-18
Cease The CRY Of Hard Times.


done with the constant cry of hard
tunes VIII n4siness be any better
for our complainingsY Can conf
dence, the handspring OF business
pros perity, be restored when we are
continually bemoaning the unsatis-
factory condition of affairs? Ii we
stop for a moment to consider the
condition of the country we can
readily see that we are in possess
sion of all the needed facilities for
carrying forward a most successful
business. Money is abundant and
can be obtained at low rate of in
terest. Our mines Of precious met
ais are still rich and are producing
satisfactorily. We have plenty of
raw material of every description.
Our manufacturing plants are suf-
ficient to supply the requirements
of a very extensive home and ex
port trade. Oar farmers have been
favored with an exceptionally large
crop. Our carrying facilities, both
by rail and water, were never let
ter, and the charges for transporta-
ton are very low. We are at peace
with all the world National taxes
are being rapidly reduced, and To-
cal taxes are not oppressive. The
majority of our traders and manu-
facturers are solvent, the weak and
rotten Concerns being pretty we'll
weeded out. The supplies of ma
terials in the hands Rof manu-
facturers and middlemen are not
overabundant, if We except one or
two classes of manufacturers, which
seem, in view of the restricted trade
of the present, to be in excess of
our requirements. What, then, is
needed to give a revivifying influ-
ence to business? 1t is not CAPT
tai, for that is abundant. 1t is not
facilities for we have all needed
means for carrying on a most ex-
tensive foreign and domestic traffic.
1t is not lack of need of produc-
tions, for the wants of our fifty odd
millions of people are daily multi
plying. We want confidence. Our
hope needs reviving. Our ambition
requires stimulating. The money
of the country should flow out OF
the Golfers of the grasping money
lenders into the channels of trade
and commerce, where all will be
benefited. We need to build more
houses. Our railway system is far
from being completed. We should
go abroad aud seek for more trade
in foreign lands. We should at
once proceed to establish steamship
lines to scores of foreign ports that
now are not reached by direct COM
munication with this country. We
should stretch Tor a welcomin g
hand to our South American
brethren and invite them to engage
in closer commercial relations with
US. If we do not like the political
aspect we should not therefore fold
our hands and invite inevitable ru-
IN by supineness. Rather let us
grid ourselves more strongly for the
fight and push manfully forward.
The disadvantages which we have
to overcome will serve to inspire us
for the contest, and once getting
our slime in motion, all obstacles
will be swept from our path.
A great future is before our peo-
pie. 1t Is only question of time
when our prosperity will equal oul
most sanguine hopes. He whc
looks forward to perpetual hare
times is a pessilnist of the worst
type. He have at hand too many
elements of success to encounter de
feat forever. This country abounds
in too great riches to continue long
in a state of poverty. We hops
that the constant talk of hard time:
will give place to a more coniden
belief in the near approach of gen
eral prosperity, and to a hope
full and rational view of tn
situation.