The record-union., 1894-07-23
ADVISED TO TAKE COMFORT.
A Citizen Takes Very Hopeful
View.
He Thinks the Country Has Learned q
Needed Lesson-Time to Begin Again
And Set the Wheels Rolling.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: It would seem
that this is the proper time to call halt
to certain people for their lack of bravery
and of loyalty to our country and institu-
tions.
On the 18th of this month, if we are to
believe the statement that flashed over
the country IN relation to the remarks OF
the Chief Executive of Texas Governor
Hogg), we are told that after he had been
presented with a gold watch by the Off
GERS OF the State militia of that grand
commonwealth he pictured a very
gloomy outlook for the future by pre-
dieting that within six weeks martial
law would be declared III California, Kan
sas, Colorado and Illinois, and that the
anarchists of Chicago would use dyna-
mite and spatter lhelofty buildings OF that
city with the hearts. lungs and liyers of
the citizens. He alluded to President
Cleveland having ordered the troops
there, and Judge Cooley's letter COM
mending the act, and said that he felt hu-
inflated over it as it was dangerous in
yasion OF State rights, and had not been
done before since 1851" The Governor
predicted great revolution soon, and a
possible dismembernent Of the great re-
public unless foreign war were to divert
attention from the national discussion.
These statements seem most cowardly,
and it is to be regretted that State like
Texas, with her great resources, should
have q Governor that would allow him
sell TO stand before the country in such
an attitude.
Governor Hogg should take up his
tory of Illinois, that State which he pre-
diets such dreadful effects for from the
action taken by the President of the
United States, and turn to page in that
history wherein Governor Richard ates
of Illinois telegraphed to Abraham Lin
coin his fears on the results from the
withdrawal of the troops from the penin-
Sula, at the time when there were dark
days III this country, and he should par
ticularly read that grand patriots reply
to that telegram. which says stand
still, Richard, and see the salvation OF
God.o
Fear and despair all tend to death. Any
kind OF a panic is most dreadful thing.
On the streets of Sacramento few days
ago men ran pell-nell with madness, fear
and Indignation, and cried out that they
had been boycotted. On the following
day there appeared card in each Of the
daily papers, signed by the Chairman of
the American Railway Union Association,
saying that no boycott had been declared
against the merchants. None had been
contemplated, nor would there be one
under any circumstances whatever.
There is contagion in fear. l could go
out and select thirty men tomorrow who
will agree to meet another man, tell him
that he is not looking well, and before
they are through he will call hack and
asked to be accompanied to his house.
Then after he gets home | would have
other people arranged and contracted
with to go and look at him with gloomy
faces and shake their heads and ask in
whispers behind the door, but loud
enough to be heard, whether he is not
lying very i'll. There would be a newly
made grave in less than week.
:. A plague came once to Damascus, / am
informed, and it was reported to one of
the men IN very high authority and rank
that one hundred thousand people had
died of certain disease. No." he re-
plied, "ten thousand died of the disease
and ninety thousand OF fright" So it is
in cases of this kind. 1t is the fear of the
consequences that creates the trouble.
This matter should now be dropped and
people should stop to consider, not the
blunders of the past. but the necessities
OF the present and the future.
Contrast the business sentiment of the
demagogues; they do not think this coun-
try a failure: they understand this revela-
ton to the American business world is
worth Infinitely more than it has cost
business is so woven in and out that one
mans misfortune is every mans misfor-
tune also.
There seems 20 be a virtue in the cour-
age Of our business men at the CONNER
cial centers and among the great intelli-
ha
They are not active in taking risk for
the sake of risk, it is true, but all legiti-
mate business during this entire Strike
has gone along in its usual way, except,
perhaps in a few localities, and then only
as the progress of commerce has been de-
tanned simply from direct effect of the
strike.
Less property has been DESTROYED and
fewer lives have been lost than in the
riots of 1877. The troubles are substan-
TALLY over, and we may congratulate our
selves on the comparatively light cost of
our experience.
1t is now virtually settled that there
will not be any new tariff Dill passed at
this session of Congress, and there will
be nothing to uDsettle business in that
direction. And now, with the labor
trouble settled, a careful observer must
know that supplies or nearly all manu-
factured articles in the hands of retailers
and consumers are low, and as soon as
the country has fair chance business
will resume on a most healthy basis.
Every little decline in stocks has been
noticed during the strike. The sensitive
points in the market have shown no great
changes. Discounts at the Bank of Eng
land have remained at 2 per cent, and
the proportion OF her reserve to liability
is 60 81 per cent against 63.63 per cent.
last week. The tendency OF stocks in
London is rather upward. Discounts in
New York range at per cent. and up
ward, and in Chicago at per cent. and
upward.
An important lesson is taught us, that
the impressive thing is the strength of
our loyal communities. Capital will be
more ready TO invest, for, like labor, it
must be employees it must be earning It's
legitimate compensation and will find
new channels.
Stop immigration, adjourn Congress
tor two years, and the country will tax e
care OF ITSELF and we will never have any
more of these vicious strikes, so destruc-
tive to our commerce. capital and labor.
HOWELL.
Sacramento, July q, 1894.
CALLED A HALT