The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

year the labor of each nation is the sum
of that years creation of wealth
What makes men work2 te
Their own mental condition. In the old
savage state when the man made up his
mind to work he could go into the forest,
and, by the stream alone and his wigwam,
had fish and flesh and fowl and blankets
and scalps and other necessaries of life.
But modern life Is not so simple. Civiliza-
ton is complicated beyond all hope of I'M
raveling. For the most part, all you can
do is 10 let 1t uDravel. II is knot which
must unite itself No sword, even of Alex
ander, can cut II.
All modern making of things require the
union of many men. The prosperity of
modern society demands a simultaneous
action Of all. When that comes, every
thing comes. After a great smash like
that of 1893 or that of 1873 there is moth
ing to do but wait and let the business
of the world settle itself, carefully keep
ing meanwhile the medicine men of
OF the way OF the sick man. When public
confidence Is profoundly shaken 1t must
re-establsh itself. II has been shaken by
causes, and those causes must be re-
moved.
Men and nations and the whole civilized
part of the race go from one extreme to
another These alterations seem as nee
the ocean. When the business of the
world gets inflated at certain periods it
Will go too far, and then there must be
a settlement. It must be settled who
owns the property, and until that Is es-
tablished nothing else can be done. Those
who nominally own property resist this
They hope some miracle will help. Then
after settlement II any laws be deemed
necessary they must be passed or there
will be further delay. Some false starts
may be taken, like that to which the Vene-
zuelan war cloud gave such a chilling
frost.
But, finally, when all things are ready
something always happens which devel-
ops the fact that confidence has returned,
and, 10! the whole world has a different
aspect. Wheels begin to turn, freight be-
gins to move commerce resumes her full
sway, one by one each employment takes
up it's march and the nation as a whole
goes to work again. urged on by the never.
dying yearning for the increase of wealth
TO be consumed for pleasure, or wealth
to be boarded for reproduction-until the
time comes all stand fearful on the brink.
When it will come no one can tell be-
forehand, but that IL win finally come
every wise man knows.
Has Il come now2 Is 1t close upon us?
1t Is always unwise 10 prophesy about the
immediate future, for Ii may be remem-
bered against you If you go wrong, and as
you are only mortal the chances Of being
right are against you. IL Is better TO
prophesy about things 10 happen in nun
bred years or preferably In a thousand,
for then If you go wrong you are all dead
and distributed.
Nevertheless, all the symptoms of pros
perity are here. Men are willing 10 lend
money and sensible men are willing TO
take 1t and risk 1t in new enterprises. In
a word. Il looks like 1879.
Another encouraging symptom is that
the financial medicine men are now ex-
planning in a low tone of voice why what
they said in such loud tones last year was
not 80. This is the prelude 10 the utter
silence which viii fall upon them in due
time, a silence which will be the signal
that the world has settled one other finan-
cial problem in the only way 1t can be
settled, and that is, in the minds of the
people.
A good many questions have been settled
these last few years. In all the debates
Ia the House this past session there was
but one man who even mentioned the
CONSUMER" and he was from Kentucky.
In other years, II you could believe our
debates, we had no population except
Consumers" producers did not exist. Not
a word did we have in the debates of this
year about the need of low prices. We al
ready had them, and mouths which used
10 start the echoes in wild longings for
low prices were devising plans for raising
prices and acted as If they mad never
helped on what Mr. Thomas Carlyle used
TO call "the career of cheap and nasty"
AZ this moment these blind leaders OF