The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-09-09


til we won? Has he not led us through
long crises of internal strife and civil
war o. and mp to greater and better
things: Is not the hand of God manifest
in the building of the nation in its
growth and development and in its re-
fex Influences upon the fate of the OPP
pressed millions of other climes? Can
an American citizen doubt the God OF
our fathers with the divine miracles of
our history before him:
BULwARKs OF THE NATION.
The bulwarks of a nation are not gold
and silver, but manhood and woman
hood. Have we not the sterling men and
women whose hands and heads and
hearts make true greatness? Have they
ever failed the nation? Are they not as
many heroes and heroines today among
g., 900, 900 of our people as ever before?
Are there not as many brave hearts
ready for the sternest work of life? Are
we not rich in noble boys and girls grow
ing into nobler manhood and woman
hood? Why should we fear?
If we cannot doubt God and man, can
we doubt nature!
True, Russia in her frozen north and
China i'll food and pestilence and crowd
ed millions have sometimes cried for
| bread. But now that all the worlds
a whispering gallery and every cry of
pain and suffering echoes round the
+ globe, even they have little to fear.
/ Swift fleets loaded with bread and meat
will ever be ready to cross those seas at
/ the cry of want.
/ But what have You to fear in this
/ great continental nation washed by two
oceans, with one hand in the furs of the
north and the other in vineyards of the
tropics?
What have you to fear when the soil
of a single state can produce bread
enough to feed the human race? What
have you to fear in the very hour when
nature smiles upon your broad acres as
she has not even III the years of your
prosperity:
The nation was never more prosperous
since it was founded in all that consti-
tutes the real wealth of people. Your
soil never promised the sons of men
richer harvest than that they have just
dDOlb W
Your barns are full, your storehouses
loaded. your people as a whole growing
richer and happier. OF what are you
afraid?
No pestilence threatens your land.
War is the remotest contingency.
Grave social problems you have to set
tie, but none save a fool doubt the sue
cessful issue of the darkest of these prob
lens.
There are riots of hunger and suffer
ing, but these will cease when you cease
to fear.
THE MAN AT THE MORGUE.
OF what are you afraid? An imaginary
hobgoblin?
A man after n debauch went recently
to the morgue at New York and told |
the keeper he was looking for himself. /
He said ne did not know where he was
exactly and was oppressed with the idea |
that he might be in the morgue. If so
he would like to identify himself.
This is our situation today.
1t is an anomaly. 1t is an absurdity. |
1t is growing to be a crime.
1t does not matter what congress may
or may not dO-the present panic is in
sanity pure and simple. Congress is not
the foundation of society. 1t is not the |
source of nations wealth except by |
trick and chicanery.
OF what are you afraid, l repeat?
Afraid of your friend and neighbor or
your God?
VIII the sun forget to shine and give |
us another harvest? Then it is useless |
for you to hoard against the wreck of
world.
Will the rain forget to come?
Will the dew not water the earth |
again? Are the the tides to cease their |
ebb and flow and the winds lie down up |
on the black bosom of dead sea and
commerce die with its winds?
Perish the thought! And perish the
devil that first breathed into the heart |
of man such insanity of fear! And what |
will you gain who have little money
to yield to your insane fear?
DANGEROUS TO HOARD.
You are afraid to trust banks? You |
are afraid to trust men, are you? Well, |
try your old stocking, then, or your old |
chest. You will be fool for your trou-
BILE and learn better by and by. Your |
money is safer in banks and with men
to use than anywhere you can lock it.
A woman in Washington sold an old !
coat some time ago which she supposed |
her husband would not need and was
Mortified to find few days afterward
that he had stored 800 in bills in its
lining. Fire and water have destroyed
vast sums Of money boarded.
Burglars have taken advantage of the
insane panic and are breaking open
houses and reaping a. golden harvest.
They followed farmer from his bank |
to his home the other day and succeeded |
easily in relieving him of the money
that caused him so many fears. 1t is
said that the records of the redemption
division of our treasury department, |
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