Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-04
Returniny to Their Senses.

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time ago rushed frantically to the
banks and drew every copper of their
deposits out have apparently got
well. They are returning to their
senses, and the consequence is that
money is pouring in over the bank
counters at 4 rate that indicates a
strong restoring of the confidence
which alone places and keeps bust
ness in this land where it properly
belongs. 1t is now estimated that by
the first of September there will be
$1,000, 600 in deposits restored to the
banks in Denver alone, and the same
tendency, different not in kind but
only in degree, is manifesting itself
all over the western states. The
Journal says the same is true Of
Peoria nearer home. In the mean
while here is n business code gotten
out by the Northwestern Miller that
teens with sense and will repay
perusal:
Conceding that the situation is not
unnatural, it follows that recovery
must come sooner of later, even as
daylight follows darkness. To has
ten the time, it would be well to OBJ
serve these rules:
! Keep your mouth shut and quit
croaking and lamenting.
Try to be cheerful and look on the
brighter side. Do not add to the
cares of others by sour and sad
countenance and voice burdened
with grief.
Don't cry over split milk or lament
for what might have been.
Make the best of the situation.
Pocket your losses with a cheerful
countenance and meet disaster with
a bold front.
Don't lose Your nerve, or believe
that you are going to the poorhouse,
or that every man is either a bank
rupt or rogue.
Don't hold on to every dollar YOU
get, as if it was the last you expected
to meet. Pay your honest debts as
quickly as you can, and pay the
smallestOnes first. Keep what money
you get moving and others will do
| likewise.
Don't crowd your debtors for what
they owe you, unless you absolutely
have to have the money. Give them
n show, and be as easy as your neces-
stiles permit. Don't hit man when
he is down; you may be down YOUR
self before this is over. Be lenient
with the unfortunate who has been
caught in the squeeze.
Show confidence in your fellow
men, and they will do the same to
you. Pay your debts, and others
will pay what they owe you. Do
your share toward quieting alarm.
Stand up to the racket like man.
Keep your money in circulation. Do
not discharge your help unless you
have to. Do not take to the woods
and hide on the first alarm.
AS to banks: If you have exercised
good judgement in the first place,
you have selected bank in which to
do your business in which you have
every confidence. 1t is probable that
its officers are honest men, who are
doing their best to help their custom
ers and keep their doors open; stand
| by your convictions now and stand bv
your bank. Do not help to ruin it.
If you owe 1t anything, pay it if YOU
can. If 1t owes you, let your money
stay in its vaults, for it is thousand
| times safer there than it is in YOUR
own pocket.
Don't hoard Take your money,
if you have any, out of the safety de-
post vaults. and put it where it be-
longs, in good bank. There are
| plenty of them, and they are not 90
ing to fail, unless everyone is as
great an ass a. the man who takes
his balance out of the bank and
hides it in his stocking.
The banner coward of today is the
man who is piIing up money in n
| safety deposit vault, where it is no
good to him and no good to anyone
else.
Do not imagine because some of
the weaker banks have failed, that
all are unsound. Do not make one
in that asinine exhibit of the century
the crowd which constitutes run
on a bank. Be ashamed to stand in
line before a perfectly sound bank.
shaking with fear lest you should
not reach the counter in time to get
your money. If you have any sense
at all, you must realize that you are
jeopardizing your own interests.
Keep cool, and let your business
run as nearly as possible in its ordi-
nary channel. Do this, and when
this period has gone by you will
stand higher in your own estimation
and in that of your fellow men, and
YOU will be in better shape to reap
the full benefit of the reaction when
it comes than you will if you draw
into hole and help congest business
| by boarding your money, standing
off your creditors and playing the
coward.
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