Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-04-10
essss County Asrala.
Island Pond, VT. April 10.
brighter DAYS.

other both in individual and col
lective life Just as surely as day
follows night. They are merely
interchangeable but each always
succeeds its opposite. We should
not be the willing slaves of eth
err, but maintain a grand mastery
of both or all of them. To be de-
pressed by adversely yields the
palm and to be moved by exuber-
ant andinconsiderate sentiments
in favorable times is weakness.
In swinging in a storm at sea
from the crest of the wave to
the trough of the sea one goes
more than twice the height of
the wave and the storm seems
thereby more terrible. Consider
ate action is to strike the aver
age of all conditions as lar as
possible.
With the whole country our
own little community is depress-
ed at present. 1t is night now.
Although exhibiting more life
than many surrounding towns
an inertia enervates it. Its fac
tory is at most intermittent.
Through it's windows may be
seen only occasional groups oil
brave women and girls (for they
are Drawer in domestic troubles
than men in more ways than one)
with determined faces and nerv.
Gus fingers deity picking out the
little made so delicious by want
and scarcity and the abundance
of which would bring so much
comfort to so many homes. Oul
artisans are gloomy, blue and
listless because there is so little
use for their creations, and sc
little money in common circula
ton that they are fretted and
annoyed with bad debts out o
which they are scarcely able t.
subsist. Our farmers are pinchec
because there is so little demand
for those of their productions
which bring cash that they car
hardly get enough to pay fo1
those things that western compe
tition compels them to purchas
in order to get their flocks ant
herds through our long cold win
tiers. Our ministers are likewis'
short because the times are no
calculated to breed those gener
Gus religious sentiments 81 essen
tial to abundant and willin;
support, and so men, women ant
children by every device and in
direction have to pick what i
got out of the scanty times.
There is no plenty now any
where except in abundant taxa
ton.
Even the great life giving arter
that once running through Car
ada, and coming to us out fror
among lively and pleasant vi
lagos cheered and accompanie
by jocund citizens and patron:
moves with sullen tide by built
ings browning with time an
neglect, with here and there onl
diminished groups who dali
come to see it's coming and &c
ing trains because there is so lii
tie else for them to do.
What is the cause of these an
many more like conditions? Gu
people are not less industriou
than formerly. They are NOR
anxious and solicitous for thei
welfare than ever before. The
are no less virtuous. They hav
lost no spirit of enterprise onl
as the times depress them. Their
is no trouble with our climat t,
Our soil is no more stubborn c
unyielding. Our resources al
constantly increasing. The az
gregate wealth of the country
increasing. Inventive genius an
all the means of developing tt
comfort, life and prosperity {
the country were never increa
ing faster than now. There
no war, pestilence, famine or di
asters to which these evil day
may be referred. But as there
a cause for everything that is S
there is a cause for present col
ditions. Of course that eau:
must be a common cause IF