Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-01-28
SAM JONES
ON THE TIMES.
TIE PATIENT IS CONyALESOENT, BUT DON'T
SEEM 10 KNOW IT.
Commercial and Financial LaGripps Has Seized
the Body Polite - No Legislation Will Cure
l.-Rsgsnration the Only Remedy.
CODyrfcht, 1891.

| SOS Aihahsas anu le1aS. Inc patlent
is convsIoscent, though / doubt IL the
patient Is conscious OF the fact.
L mean that times are improving,
though the people seem hardly willing
TO admit II.
There is an easier feeling in financial
circles, more movement in commercial
circles, and a more hopeful tone among
all classes.
The Southern States were last to feel
the str'ngency, and will be first to re-
cover their prosperity. Texas has suf-
Iered less than any OF the forty-fOur
States. Her banks are dsluged with de-
posits, her stores filled with goods, and
her trains loaded with cotton. The
farmers are buying all they need, and
most OF them ara paying up old bills
and paying cash for new goods.
Times are Frightening. They are
now hopefully better, though it's a Ions
ways, even now, TO complete recovery
The wise man who thought that the
| repeal Of the sherman silver purchas-
ing act would give returning prosperity
is now an acknowledged fool. The man
who now expects relief from tariff tink-
| erIng, will soon have to Join in the
! same procession with the "gOld bug
| gerry aud "silver digRery" crowd, aud
take back seat. There is no remedy
| in legislation for the present strin-
! geucy.
| There is no manufac tory, either in
wool, steel rails, cotton, or wood wares,
| that would not be running twenty four
hours a day, and every day in tho year,
! II there were n demand for its products.
| We are overstocked Surplus, surplus
| IN everything but common sense. Eng
land, Australia, Germany, China, IIa-
i go hutr nv
| United States has prod uced its own sur
| plus-iron, -four, woods, cotton, corn,
| dog fennel, &c, &c.
Tariff on imported goods, high or low,
won't give the much louged for pros
| perity. The Mckinley law did not
avert commercial and financial disas-
ters, and the Wilson tariff bill will not
bring back commercial and financial
prosperity.
The abundant output OF iron in Penn
sylvania and Alabama has made the
furnaces and the mill operatives poor.
The abundant wheat harvests of the
Northwest have made farmers almost
pennyless. The abundant cotton crop
OF the South has well-nigh bankrupted
this section. The abundant output OF
"oo'len mills has proven their own
ruin.
" Oulh ~ hb WISE 10 OuGD up the sur
plus, or dump IL INFO the sea? Or
would 1t be wise to sit down and do
nothing year or two, and consume the
surplus in idleneSs? Or will it be wise
Tor the West 10 continue her abundant
wheat harvests, at forty cents bushel,
and the South to produce her eight to
ten millions OF bales OF cotton each
year, and sell IL for less than the cost OF
production? Or for the Alabama fur
naces 70 continue to make pig iron and
sell ~ at six dollars and sixty cents per
ton, sc, sc.
Ihere Is now condition OF things
that cannot be- reached and cured by
the vaporings of Congressman or the
Iabored, well-written articles OF the
newspapers aud reviews.
Our greed for gold has run us in this
hole. ITS money iu yong pocket
the race TO OutStrin others-to produce
more and cheaper goods than our com
petitOrs - combinations, cliques and
cheats, Rum, Rascality and Rect
procity.
Competing with the half-staryed la
Dor OF Europe, we grind the laboring
men and women OF this country be-
meath the upper and neither millstones
OF our greed for gold and the desire 20
beat competitor in the race.
This same spirit is seen in oil trades
and marts. Now and then you will see
that the cotton planters have, in con
vention assembled, resolved that they
would only plant half OF the land usual
ly put in cotton, and then each farmer.
thinking that Will be the case, and that
therefore cotton will be high priced.
thinks he Will double his acreage and
thereby grow rich. And thus IL goes
each year With the cotton planters. So
with tho wheat and iron prod ucers, and
so with all manufacturing interests.
The sugar makers in Louisiana have
the best snap know OF, and il the sugar
bounty holds out their fortune is made.
BY the way, can't tho government give
the iron aud wheat and cotton and rice
producers a good. nice bounty2 Can't
they give us preachers bounty on our
converts and the negroes a bounty on
their childcen and dogs2
How wish this government was not
| baukrupted! How sorry / am that
/ Mr.. Carlisle is just at at this time try
/ ing 90 borrow money at per cent. in
/ terest. Some Of us had hopes of Tor
| rowing from the government at two uer
/ cent / know that the two cents Der
pound bounty on sugar has given pros
/ pcr.ty % all southern sugar planters
ana il inc government COuId cease 10
/ look TO the people for IT'S support and
/ pitch boo and support the people awhile.
/ We could aIl be- pros porous then.
| the people OF this great country
| never wrestlod with the problems
/ which now vcx them. New and I'm
I tried problems in the commercial and
financial world, like new diseases I'm the
/ physical, veX and puzzle a experts and
/ doctors. "LaGrippe, " with It's ravages
/ ou tho human system, and It's hustful
/ after effects, pulling OH the physi-
/ cious. finds its parallel iu, and, there
/ fore. Is akin 10 the disease now playing
/ havoc 100 the commercial world. No
/ statesman can diagnose tho trouble.
aud 30 remedy applied gives relief.
/ "Ims heals al things" and time
/ alone can give us the relief for which
D we ask.
The question OF right and wrong does
/ not enter lutO the questions of the day.
/ Commercial integrity. Individual honor.
I ard general trustworthiness, have about
/ played oUt Money was never so cheap.
/ aod never 50 hard % borrow. Mer-
! chants we're never more eager TO SELL.
] and never so choice OF their customers
+ Capital and labor we're never more dis