Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-01-04
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Is easier TO consider the accom.
plishments Of ! day; most men cal
culate the progress Of affairs in I
month; but it is . universal Gus
tom to consider at the end Of .
year what the twelve months have
brought forth to the world, the
nation, state, community and in
dividual. A year is the largest
natural distinction Of time, and is
the only one that includes all
seasons, and thus permits the
operations of all usual natural
conditions on the worlds affairs.
The year just passed has Witnessed
no marked events in the history Of
the human race. TIE friendship
of civiliz ed nations has continued,
or at least the differen and mis-
understandings have been adjusted
without resort to horrors of war.
What might have been noted as an
exception is the deserved punish.
ment that China has invited and
is undergoing from her civilized
neighbor. Had the people and
rulers of China considered the
question involved in the way the
Unite d States or any European
power would, the war would not
have occurred. What change
there has been in conditions every.
where has been toward enlarging
the influence of the people in pub
lie matters, and an increase of the
consideration their. interests have
received from their selected or es.
tablished rulers. Without revolu-
tions, such progress is slow but
the year 1894 has happily included
no violent outbreaks against un-
fair authority or any effort at
greater oppression.
The people Of the United States
have enjoyed all natural blessings
this year, but the unfortunate
work Of man has skept from very
many the means to make happy
homes. The adjustment of con.
ditions between the different peo-
pie of the nation seemed at fault,
so that the wage Garner, the farm
er and the business man have all
been unable to find opportunity
to protitably exert themselves, and
neither their energy nor products
brought a. suitable reward. The
fault is not with nature-crops
were good and our resources more
evident than ever. The land will
grow enough to feed all bounti.
fully; there are workers enough
to create all articles ofnecessity or
luxury, and with the wisest ar.
rangement for an interchange of
all these products every indus
trious person should he supplied
with all that Is needed to make
bodily comfort. That these com.
forts were not available to all who
are willing to perform their share
of the labor of production was the
great and impressive feature of
the past year in this country.
Minnesota has experienced the
usual natural favorable conditions
and the terrible forest fires were
the saddest events of the year.
Crops were good, the development
of mineral industries steadily pro.
crossed, and the output was larger
than ever before. The general
Developments Of the state continued,
especially in the farming and
frontier portions, as thousands of
citizens from the large cities of
our own and neigh boring states
moved onto farms during 1894.
The conditions prevailing in the
nation effected our state, and but
for that it would seem that the
year would have been very
happy one for the people Of Min.
nesota. In our city and county
the financial, commercial and in
dustrial depression lacked the
severity it possessed in most Sec
tons. Employment in all the
manufacturing enterprises was al.
most as plentiful as ever, at as
good wages as was warranted.