The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-06-23
PATIENCE NEEDED.
Patriotic Principles of True Amer
fcnnism.

Probably President Mckinley and
members of his cabinet will not be set
at war by the Efforts of democratic
journals. Presumably they all have the
same object, to push forward as speedi-
ly as possible the settlement of the tar
i'll question, so that the treasury may
have assured n sufficient revenue for the
coming year, and so that the nations
industries may be placed on firm foot
ing. IL is no secret that business men
throughout the country, whether re-
publicans or not, are constantly appeal
ing to senators and members of con-
gress TO avoid delay on the tariff ques-
ton as far as possible. Such appeals
are both wise and patriotic. But while
there is reason for the most earnest
efforts to that end, the words of the
president at Philadelphia are still ex-
ceedingly timely and sensible:
LET me tell you, my friends. resuscita-
ton will not be promoted by recrimination.
A distrust of the present will not be re-
moved by diStrust of the future. pa
triot makes q better citizen than n pess!-
mist. Let US keep stout heart and
steady head The country is not going
backward, but forward. American energy
has not been destroyed by the storms Of
the past 1t will yet triumph through wise
and beneficent legislation"
Vastly more good is done by such
statements as these, level-headed and
judicious in character and in harmony
with facts, than by any eXaggeration of
existing difficulties. 1t may be frank
ly admitted that the difficulties are
serious. But when anyone speaks of
the nations industry as paralyzed, he
succeeds in forgetting that the volume
of actual transactions is not in value
II tenth smaller than it was in the years
of the greatest prosperity ever attained
in the United States, although the vol
ume of payments now represents a
much lower range of prices. This de-
crease, whether a little more or less,
is greatly to be regretted, but it is not
paralysis. Whatever else may be with
reason said of the difficulties in the
way of industrial recovery, it cannot
be said that business is paralyzed when
the earnings of all railroads reported
for May are only 2.3 per cent. smaller
than in the same month of 1892.
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praiseworthy motive for which they are
employed. 1t is exceedingly important
that congress should not delay one day
longer than is necessary in settling the
tariff question. 1t is true that heavy
importations of some products have
SO far clogged the markets that re-
turn to normal conditions can hardly
IDe expected for some months. But this
state of things is perhaps as serious
in the wooden goods department as in
any other, and the value of all wooden
goods imported at New York in the
year 1897 down to June 3 was not quite
$50 100000, which is considerably less
than fifteenth part of the goods of
that character, domestic and foreign,
usually taken for consumption in this
country during year. If the quanti-
ties imported elsewhere than at New
York were as great as the quantities
here, which is not in the least probable,
the entire foreign supply, inconvenient-
" large as il doubtless is, would be
something rather less than paralyzing
10 home industries.-N. Y. Tribune.