Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-26

ally increase within the next few months, and thinks there is no req son for apprehension. The treasury officials are not dealing with probabil- tiles; they know the treasury stands in need of replenishng. The income tax provided a way for the greasing of the machinery and the cutting off of this supply of grease cannot be regarded from an it-doesn't-make-any difference standpoint.
 What is the remedy?
 Two have been mentioned. The first, an extra session of congress, is popu- lar idea with the hotel keepers, mer- chants, men-about-town, etc., but it is very doubtful if the president is honing to again have congress on his hands. He is not yet through thanking his stars for the death by limitation of the late congress, and is in no hurry to call to, gether body that might remain with him until the midsummer of 1896. Mir. Cleveland. usually knows when he has had enough of even such good thing as congress, and it will be a real case of "Pike's Peak or bust" before he asks the aggregation over which MT. Reed will preside to go to work before it is time
 The second remedy mentioned is an- other bond issue. Now, bond issues are not exactly popular with the masses presumably because the masses cut no figure in such deals except the sorry one of playing bound boy at the shucking." The gentlemen who profit most by the is sue of bonds are those protected" by the recent decision of the supreme. court they have the surplus incomes to invest in gilt-edged securities, which the every day toilers have not; and yet, after all they are very useful factors in govern mental affairs, just as they are useful in providing labor with the means of earning its bread by the sweat of it's brow" When the proverb quoted above was first made applicable, there were only Adam and Eve to do the sweating. Capital was an unknown quantity, and the earth was the only bank from which the tcilers could draw their sustenance Come to think of it, the same state of af- fairs exists today, except in so far as capital is concerned. I believe every thing manufactured today comes in its original shape, as did man himself, from the earth. I hadn't thought of it in that light before, but it is fact, never theless The bricks with which we build our houses; the marble with which we erect our palaces; the iron from which so many of our manufactured articles are shaped; the grain upon which man and beast subsist all spring from the earth ; so we are beholden to the fruits of the earth for all that we possess. Now cap ital-gold and silver-also is yielded up to man by the earth, though the serpent creeps in in the guise of credit" and gives to it a fictitious value which too often brings not only Its possessors, but labor as well, to grief. It is said that 9o per cent of the business of the world is conducted upon credit. That's why we have so many disastrous failures.
 But only the capitalist can do business on credit. You and I, gentle reader and the balance of the great army of bread winners, must go to the market with cash or country produce" or the volume of business conducted by us will be very limited. If capital was compelled to do it's marketing in the same way there would not be nearly so much business done, but the human race would be bet ter off in the end-afterNt had adapted itself to the new condition of things and learned to spend only 100 cents when it had only $1 in it's pocket. The trouble with all of us is that we want to do $10G