Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-04-10

growing more and mo-esluggish.
Every individual feels a numb :
ness and a dumbness growing
out of his touch with the times.
The finances of the country are
in most deplorable condition
and growing worse and worse;
not through poverty, loss, mis-
fortune or accidents at all, but
by reason of the unskillful and
generally bad management and
adjustment of the plenty which
fills the land. Our foreign rela-
tions have been such as to en-
courage barbarism and theories !
of absolute government III one
instance, a gross outrage on hu-
mainly in another, and the ex-
ercise of an indifference to the he
roic struggle of a brave and gal
liant people against wrongs
greater than the republic i'll its
early days had to endure, and
finally to nearly plunge the
country into a war involving
the civilization of the world, and
which nothing but the rising OF
mighty sentiment of Christian
civilization, which rose above
the voices of kings, presidents,
rulers, politicians and cranks,
was able to avert.
Now one more rising of the
people and the day will dawn.
, What the day will bring forth no
E man can tell. But it cannot al
ways be night. A deep and set
tied conviction that the condition
, of the country has existed long
enough is moving the people
o deeper and more universally than
, they have been moved before
o since the war. They were then
, so startled by danger from ply
:. steal force that they broke down
! all party lines and rose to the
q exercise of the purest patriotism.
So now in the face of an equal
danger they will rise with like
I unanimity to preserve or resus-
f citate the country.
y The masses don't care who is
! in fault concerning the evils that
4 are upon them. 1t is no answer
G to tell them what is not the cause.
;, They know that there is some
= cause, and they know that tol
some reason every movement OF
q the present management has set
4 tied them deeper in their misfor
tunes.
. But there is really no occasion
+ for deprecating illusions to these
:. hard times for as surely 40 chs
,.ul> VI succession to which VIZ
r. have alluded continues and as
4 surely as day continues to follow
, night these times will soon bt
;s gone. The doors of the great
markets of the country will soor
!, be open, healthy production ant
, consumption will be renewed
the productions of the earth will
~ again be distributed in natura
n and beneficial ways, and tn,
~ sound of the axe, hammer ant
i songs of labor will enliven on
II village scenes. Needy familie
G will warm up to the enlivenin:
J. employment of the factory, whil
n the Hustler of the Wabash will
" all diverting lines turned in O
l., checkmated will move swarms O
= people to and fro in new ant
: lively enterprises, and seattle
blessings coming from land ant
Il sea through many shining vii
-. lagos and into a multitude O
60 homes.
70 But before this the jambs il
=. the national currents must b.
w cleared out, and the general cir
70 culation in the whole country
H.. on which each small remote sec
re- ton of the country depends, mus
o be restored. And as sure as tn
~ history of such succeeding condi
20 lions as we have alluded to re
~ peats itself, as sure as summe
;s follows winter, so sure are sum
n mer days coming to the Who'll
i. country. This is the fixed hop
&c and determination of the peopl
and he must be insensible to tn
g signs of the times who does no
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