Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-28
CHEESE DULL TIMEs."

and whose sales seemed TO be remark
ably good have gone TO the wall IN
such rapid succession Ms makes things
look squslly, and each successive one
naturally enough leads TO Others, mol
particularly because OF the example or
through sympathy but more, we take
Il, because staguation IL Increased
~ not engepdered thereby. There Is
material for reflection In this PROPOSE
ton. To what extent mems demeanor'
their countenances even, may inhn'
ence activity In commercial circles IN
Of course unknown; but all who take
the pains to observe, compare anu
think will readily undorstnud that
such ngencIes DO have their effect.
Some OF the more knowing ones are
predicting great business revival In
the spring. What II IL TO he based
upon or come fr m Is not shown. II
Ia observable, however, tina, these
changes from lethargy t, activity are
alwaysa season or so ahead, probably
because "the fields arc green that are
far away 1t IL at least possible,
though, that such expressions do n
great deal OF good in the msttor Of for.
warding tho condition desired, and those
who are gifted In metaphysics anu
economics might be willing TO say that
one Ia n ma.ured outgrowth OF the
othcr;b but ns our sphere OF Information
ia those two abstruse Department. IL
painfully curtailcd, We will 20 no fur
Their than say we are willing TO
believe that there In 'something Ia IT,"
A coming, philosophic sort OF per-
son once figured out the amount Of
financial business which Ave dollar
bill properly handled could accomplish
IN n day. A paid Is the bill on u debt,
thus enlarging B'a capital to that ex'
tent. making him feel correspondingly
elastic and strengthening his conn.,
denco In "A pretty good beginning
one would say. b owed e something
more than So, but he paid that amount
aud thus kept his credit good 40 that
he could get twice AS much In materials
aud thus enlarge his own stock In
trade, whereby no could do an en-
largod business; q paid tho bill to one
OF his workmen for wages, whereby
provision bill was paid by the latter,
and No II kept going, until when the
day had closed enough different per-
sons had received and paid out that
bill to impart mt least the semblance OF
activity to the entire circle, and the
amount OF valid transactions which the
money had accomplished reached
weil.nigh hundred dollars !
Herein we See that II Is not altogether
the condition In which people really
arc that makes good or bad times, aud
that the way they feel has very much
TO do with 1t; also that II In not the
amount OF cash on hand that makes
business lively and money apparently
ensy, but the use TO which wo put what
we have.
We will not venture upon 40 pllpa.
ble N truism mn TO ,ay TINT we have
nov M much money IN the Territory
ma vo ev.rv bnd md only mention II
as kind OF corallary to the foregoing.
We might progress step further by
saving there In more than ever before
and not miss the truth very much II at
nil. But supposo there were ten times
mora tban Their, aver had bean nj nny
nm, time before-yes. n hundred times
n. much-and A. were living idle I'm
yauIta and other secure places, wouId
the mare fact of its existence ,mpart
yivor TO trade or give renewed lie 10
sntsrprise? Certainly not. GA the
other baud. suppose there were
much less and IL w,r, treated some.
what like the Ave dollar bill spoken
Of. would TINT make n difference of n
favorable character? Indeed Il would.
This would seom 10 be- the whole eItua.
tim in n nutshell.
The Territory. for example. ia sadly
in peed of ssysfai more miles of rail-.
wsv and eouipment. and there Ia
enough money 10 accompllsh such
vo,lr vItbout having In tloal N hand
mr. n.eotiate the anil, of oue share of
of stock. There ars also a goodly
number Of me, who nre abIe