Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-09-03
Foolish Votes Proved Costly.


Foolish votcs Proved Costly.
When sensible and sober people
decide TO change their policy of gov
ernnent they do it with hesitation and
II careful study of opportunities. For
they realize that any change or the
fear of change must exert an dDfavor-
able influence for a time perhaps so
great as TO outweigh the ultimate ben
.elt Anticipated, The verdict of the
people last fall was not thus delibrY9
ate and well-considered. Multitades
voted in haste and are now repenting
mt leisure. Thus in Kansas the Elk
County Alliance decares that loan.
companies aud bankers will not lend
any more nloney in that state on mort
cages, but what sensiabl men suppos-
ed that they would. in view of such
action as was taken by the legislature
elected in Novemberl IL there Is to
be war against creditors men prefer
to lend money some,'here else. But
the consequences of the election as re-
spects silver coinage and currency ex-
pansion have been confined to no
state. and the end of them is not yet
1t is now generally perceived that
the great monetary uncertainty caus-
ed by the election of a dclnocrstic-alli-
ance congress last November has been,
more potent than all other Influences
to depress business and retard invest
ment. Capitalists who do not know
what to expect are likely TO wait and
do nothing. The agitation for nnlnl-
tied coinage of silver, which broke
out with new forces rs soon rs the re-
suit OF the election was known, has un.
doubleday prevented a vast number of
loans ard investments which would
otherwise have been made. With an
actual circulation greater than the
country has ever known except during
the last year, the banks and other
monetary institutions are lending on
time most sparir.gly. Commercial
failures have greatly increased in nun
Der. Business operations which would
have been eagerly. snbraced in any
year ofsiarge crops under ordinafs
circumstances have this yeer been de-
fer.ed Investors refuse TO take bonds,
SO that many RAILROADS are crampsd by
inability TO sell their securities, and in
consequence the great iron industry
waits and il embarrassed. These are
but few illustrations of n multitude
of WAYS in which the hesitation of
those who have money to invest or to
lend has effected tlie general activity.
N. Y. Tribune
North Lyme, Conn, Aug. PA
peculiar case of absent mindedness
came TO the light here Saturday on the
examination of George Bump, who
had been arrested at the instigstion OF
his wife on the charge of attempting
20 kill his son. Bumpin an eccentric
Yankee who lives on small farm in
the backwoods. He has a wife and
one child Friday afternoon Bump
was in the yard trying to put head
in barrel to be used for holding cider.
He could not make the head stay up
until he frightened the hoops, and,
putting his deaf and dumb five-year-
old son inside the barrel TO hold up
the head, he went on with his work.
The plan worked first rate. and he
soon had the barrel headed up. Leav-
ing tbs yard he went ont into the field
to dig potatoes. forgetting the boy in
the barrel until his attention was call
ed to him by his wife, who went to
the field and excitediy inquired If he
had seen Thomas.
Bump dropped his hoe and ran for
the barrel. The hoy was breathing
through the hung hole. Bump knock
ed in the head OF the barrel aud lifted
the boy out, who was so frightened
that he went into spasms and his life
Is almost despaired Of Bump was re-
leased from c,stod, the authorities
being satisfied that he had not inten-
tionaIly barreled up his son. The
Press
An insane woman. sttired In mans
coat aud boots aud a dress skirt. was
taken up by Deputy Sheriff Rousnow
while wandering about Ecofse last
evening. She y apparently about IS
years old and Mt one time said her
name was Annie Jacobs md at anoth.
e., Annie Saith. Oct. Journal.