The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-09-21
No Destilence threatens your land.

No pestilence threatens your land.
Warts theremotest contingency. Grave
social problems you have to settle, but
none save q fool doubt the successful
issue of the darkest of these problems.
There are riots of hunger and suffer-
ing, but these will cease when you cease
to fear.
TIE NAN AT THE MORGUE.
OF what are you afraid? An imaginary
hobgoblin?
A man after debauch went recently
to the morgue at New York and told
the keeper he was looking for himself.
He said he did not know where he was
exactly and was oppressed with the idea
that he might be in the morgue. If SO
ne would like to identify himself
This is our situation to-day.
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, | repeat?
Afraid of your friend and neighbor or
your God?
Will the sun forget to shine and give
Us another harvest? Then it is useless
for you to hoard against the wreck OF
a world.
viii the rain forget to come?
Will the dew not water the earth again?
Are the tides to cease their ebb and flow
and the winds lie down upon the black
bosom of a 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 a fool for your trouble
and learn better by and by. Your money
is safer in banks and with men to use
than anywhere you can lock it.
\ 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 500 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 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 di-
vision OF our treasury department, of the
Bank of England and of France show
fbot tho lnccoc c-I,ffornI NV ind oil
| through their lack of faith in banks ex-
ceeds by an enormous sum the losses
suffered by bank failures.
| AFEw WEEKS HENCE.
Let the banks cease to hoard! Let the
| people cease to hoard!
1t is unreasonable, it is absurd, it is in
sane, and it is a crime against society.
Within short time money will be a
drug upon the market, and the nation
will go forward by leaps and bounds.
The present crisis has only served to
show the tremendous resources of our
nation. In the hour of your sorest need
when it was supposed your credit was
ruined, you drew about $25,OO0,O0O in
| gold from Europe. In no way could you
demonstrate more clearly your tremen.
| dous financial power
| 1ilS ldilOll, Will us lHuuSlf1eS pros
trated, is still master of the finances OF
the world-because you have the Drawn,
the brains and the bread. The earning
power Of our people is something well
nigh incalculable. 1t is the best of all
fields for the investment fcapital. Every
crowned head OF Europe owns property
i'll America. He wants to be safe. Your
country offers to labor its best opportu
mites. You had as well try to push back
the stars in their courses as to impede
for any length of time the progress o.
America. \ panic among US is an ig
nominious insanity. As for me, l be
lieve.
believe in my country. 1 believe in
my neighbor. | believe in God
[ would climb to the topmost rigging
of the ship to-day and shout below to
every panic stricken group on deck:
Gods in his heaven;
| Ais we'll Oh ca rth.