The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-09-04
THE SKIES ARE BRIGHTER.
Hard Times Come Again No More"-
Peoplcin II Country are Not Much
Affected by the Panic.

II IN country aTc INOC NlICIl
Affected by the Panic.
Atlanta Constitution.
The times certainly look more hone
ful-we feel it in the air-the caldron
has been boiling and bubbling-the
froth and scum have been thrown over
and we begin to see the bottom of the
pot through the clear liquid that has
been so dark and muddy. Time is a
good doctor, and in o little while the
patient will convalesce. Old folks
can't-be fooled and alarmed like young
folks.
When 1 was in Texas last year I met
hundreds of good, honest people who
were wild with excitement about Clark
n Hogg. The cry on one side was,
Turn Texas loose" and it seemed like
the great state was bound and gagged,
her ruin was inevitable if Hogg
people in the towns and cities cried in
frantic tones, Turn Texas loose"
But Hogg was elected, nevertheless.
and Texas is there yet in all her glory
n all her strength. 1 never took
sides, for 1T was none of my fight, and I
was too old to be alarmed.
Memory goes back now to great ex-
elements, both political and financial.
and when ] hear the wild screech OF
the politician as he predicts ruin !!
ruin ruin If they don't do his way, I
feel like 1T is history just repeating it.
self, M the storm will blow over as
usual. A little time is all that is
wanted-time to reflect, and rest, and
recuperate.
The great DR.. Alternately was asked
the secret OF his success as a physician.
81 amuse the patient and let nature
do the work"
Just so the nations finances are now
sick, and Congress is the doctor. Up
TO this time the doctor hasn't given
any medicine, nor done a blessed thing
except to amuse the patient, and 1 WORT
ly believe there are signs of ecoyery
The truth is tho doctor might safely
be discharged and the patient would
get well. Just let the cotton begin to
move, and the South will be all right.
England will move it if the United
States cannot, and there will be two or
three hundred millions of dollars put
In circulation down South this fall and
winter. There will be probably
thirty millions paid out in Geor-
gia, and probably three hundred
thousand dollars in Barlow county.
Good gracious-what a pile of money !
l'ye got no cotton, but surely I will get
a little of that money.
mat Will pay lots of debts and that
Will turn Georgia loose and turn Texas
loose. That money will not be hoard
ed nor hidden. Most of it is owing
now to merchants and the merchants
will watch tho farmer when he sells.
That money is bound to circulate, for
they say that $40 paid to a debtor does
not stop, but keeps on paying from one
to another until it has paid hundreds
or thousands, and is as good or better
than the clearing house certificates of
the banks.
But we haven't lost confidence in
Congress-. There are some statesmen
there men whose patriotism ia above
party-men who rise above se~lf-interest
and reelection and have the good of
people at heart. At the last they
are the men who control. They are
the men who will settle this question
disturbed finances. and they will
settle 1t right. So let the wheels roll
a year from now we will all
wonder that W. were so much alarmed. |
The truth Is the common people, tho
bone and sinew, the farmers and pro-
ducers, are lot panic struck, and they
woulden't know there was q panic II
they diden't read the papers. 1t is the
towns and cities and merchants and
that are hurt. The only ap-
prehension of the farmers now is that
the money kings will pull down the
price OF cotton SO as to speculate upon
and get richer and richer. THEW
will find money enough to buy at a low
price, but have one for O fair price.
When will the millionaires get rich
enough? Like the hOrse-leech. their
cry Is, "give, give" and they keep on
bearing what they buy and buiIing
what they sell until they suck the life
blood out Of the working man. The
government has passed laws against
combines and corners, monopolies and
but there is a way to dodge all
them, and no n man can afford to
go to law about 1t. There's where the
peoples party comes from. When
they see In the papers that pork
dropped so per cent In one day and
wheat 70 per cent on another day they
know that the spectators had been
1t after they had bought it ell
up, and when the hand they played
the drop came. The producer
would be willing for his bread and meat
be cheap to the poor. II he did not
get q fair return for his own labor 1t
would be a comfort to know that the
millions OF poor consumers got more of
It for their scanty wages. But these
spectators In the ne~cessaries
life, these vampires who buy by the |
million and hoard and keep and bull
they buy are the curse of both
The and the U,l1aumar Yna