The gold leaf., 1893-07-06
CONDITIONS WILL BE
BETTER.
Dull Times Now, But They are not SO
Bad That They Could not be Worse.
Huntington News, |

You often hear the remark: It's
the dullest or the hardest time ever
saw" which is loose remark, as you
have seen it as dull many times and
that, too, when things were, to all
appearances, in a better condition
than now.
A mole hill can be magnifed into
a mountain if you get the right focus
on it, and the same way about dullness
Of trade. II everybody talks dull
trade, it gets the duller seemingly;
and when any thing as contagious as
the blues is ahoat, the less said about
that colored feeling the fewer people
YOU find down with the complaint.
But aside from all jests there is
something rotten in Denmark. and
there are more reasons assigned for it
than there is faults. But be they ever
SO bad they might be worse, and the
best possible thing for everybody to
do is to work hard if you can get work
to do (you will get paid) and quit
dropping over what somebody said
was " skeery times"
You hear of failures coming one
after another, and they will often lose
somebody some money, but they are
brought about in this way more than
any other.
A great many large, and to all out
ward views prosperous concerns were
started and have been run on bor-
rowed money, and the money lenders
have from time 20 time renewed the
notes for these firms. Well, not long
ago the gold in this country began
going to Europe, the banks it seems
became frightened and began drawing
in their loans, and refusing to longer
renew paper, preferring to get them.
selves in shape for money panic,
whether justly frightened or not we dc
not know, but at any rate they refuse
to loan and the borrowers can nc
longer find the means to run on.
They must liquidate, pay out begir
anew.
These things have taken place time
and again, and in the long run may
be better for the country, as the ten
dency to borrow increases as the
facilities for borrowing come forth
and the credit system would run rio
if no checks were put upon it.
Things are badly stirred up, but the
government credit is unlimited, an(
nothing it owes has felt any decline
It's a kind of sloughing process,
the rotten is falling off and the sounc
seems the sounder
The business enterprises of th'
country which have cash at the bacl
of them are solid, unless they ar
trapped in some ones fall, and it will
come right. OF course some are learn
ing pretty dear lessons, but they will
do them good in the end.
These conditions of stagnation Cal
not last long. The crop prospect i
good, the finances are to be overhauled
we hope for the better; in fact, whel
Mr.. Cleveland announced he woul'
call congress together in September
money circles strengthened on that
We all hope that they will be S
remedied that the power OF contrac
ton will be lost, and that we will
not migrate twice a year to New York
1t may require some I" stifening" t
keep solid front, but if every on
will hush talking hard times and g
about the best possible, in short tim
the whole of this blue business will b
gone, the fruit crop and grain GRO
will begin to be marketed, and on W
go.
As remarked elsewhere, don't hoar
your money, but keep it at work
there's no danger of that com
modify all leaving the country, for a
long as labor works it will be paic
and when paid it will eat and wear.
Quit grumbling, be thankful fc
what you have already and be conten
in times like this if you make end
meet and the small balance is on tn
credit side.