The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-01-15
Opportunity for Enterprise.


abundant and cheap, capital ties
up its purse strings, refases to be-
lieve in the future, and regards as 3
personal a1ront any proposition
looking toward the pushing of old
or the Inauguration of new enter
prises; when things turn around
and they always turn afound-and
prices begin to jump upward and
material and labor to get scarce
and costly, the men who pinched
their eeagles the tightest tumble
over each other to invest. All man
ners OF enterprises are pushed for
ward at a feverish rate and at a
cost which, when the next down
turn comes, sweeps fortunes oHt Of
existence and brings forcibly home
the line, "What fools these mortals
be-" Thus in perpetual rotation
the extremes of activity and stag
nation are precipitated, the hard
times made harder, and the period
of activity-they can hardly he
called truly prosperous-made more
exciting are carried to more extrav
agent lengths. 1t is a mistaken idea
that in dull times to shut up like
an oyster and hide funds in a
stocking or a safety deposit vault
is conservatism. 1t is pessimistic
folly. Many doubtless like to pose
as conservative. These should re-
member that true conservatism
never goes to extremes. There is
automatic truth in the saw that"the
longest lane has a turning" and il
is almost as great truth that
| whenever the price of staples de
scends below the cost of replacing
them when consumed, they are
cheap and it is a good time to buy.
! Moreover, a in new country like
ours, when the short-sighted men
can see with the certainty of
prophesy that ne@ railroads, new
factories, and new enterprises of all
kinds are going to be peratively
demanded less than half a dozen
years, it is folly TO wait till the de
mand comes, to build at a high
cost what may be anticipated as a
low one. There is double profit
in building in times of depression.
The construction is gotten cheap,
and the activity which it's building
causes sets in motion those factors
which cause an increase in value,
since it is safe to say that every en-
terprise vigorously begun encour.
ages another. The popularity of
building whenits, costs too much and
OF being still when there is profit in
building has been said to be pecu
liarly American. We believe it is
human, rather. What one man
wants with vim his neigh bors also
wants, the world over. If one-third
of community should make rat
tails the great objects of their de
sires, every pocket in the commu
nifty would be found to contain a
boarded supply Of caudal apenda-
ges. The reverse is equally true.
Let every man therefore remember
that upoa his action depends in a
manner also that Of other men. If
we all brace up and say there will
be better times, they will come.
There never was a better time to 90
into any legitimate enterprise
where an enterprise is needed, and
opportunities for such are not rare
If you buy FOR a dollar what cost
more than a dollar and what cannot
be made again for dollar yon can
not lose much unless you lose your
head" and rush to sacrifice. 1t is
in this case only question of time
before you find yourself with a
profit. The time is a question of
human willsin narrow limits. 1t
may be FASTENED by hopeful views
or delayed by crOakihg, but the end
is certain, because 1t depends on
human necessity. The product of
to-day will have been consumed,
and then, when new goods costing
more than the dollar to make must
tie depended upon, the value of all
goods will advance TO the price Of
the new.
Any enterprise for which there is
or will be room in the near future
has an opportunity of profting by
low prices dow.-Indus. World.
In note to the Union Medicale,
NJ. MonOd states that duriug the
last twenty years he has treated
ingrowing nails by very simple
and efectual method, which does
not involve the removal of the mil