Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-08-19
THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1897

THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1897.
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THE SIOUX FALLS PRESS AND PRES
McKINLEY'S NEW PASTOR.
The dispatches last week announced
that DR.. Frank N. Crane, pastor Of
Trinity Nj. T.. church, Evanston, H.,
had accepted a call to the Washington
church of which Pres. Mckinley is a
member. DIR. Crane would be a news
paper man If he were not preacher.
His sPulpit Editorials which it has
been his custom To read every Sunday
evening preceding the regular sermon,
have attracted wide attention, and
have been copied and commended by
the newspapers quite MS enthusiastic
cally rs they have been received by his
own church people. The COURIER in
the past few months has several times
quoted freely from these pulpit edito-
rails, and we shall doubtless do so In
the future. The Sioux Falls Press in
Its last Sundays issue began the reg
ular publication of these editorials, for
20 broad and fair are they that their
politics are not Objectionable, ex-
cept to the most partisan. We are
sorry the Press did not begin week
sooner, for that sheet and its readers
might derive great benefit from a care
full persual and adoption of the wise
counsel contained in the pulpit editor
ials Of the week before. For the bene-
at Of our readers we give them in full
below, and we believe all will agree
that they contain great deal Of sound
sense. The Press ought to have a
good hope Of the political as well as
the spiritual salvation OF President
Mckinley after the president has for
. season enjoyed the privilege OF the
same ministrations the Press now pro-
poses to offer to its own readers.
Pulpit Editorials.
delivered by DR. Crane at Trinity Church
Sunday evening, Aug. 8, preceding the usual
SormOn.1
THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY.
Prosperity, they say, is about to re-
turn. Having hyena-howled at one
another until enterprise has been para.
lyzed and capital concealed with fright,
we now hope by reversing the process
and jovially clapping one another on
the back to WOO again the vanished
days OF tickle plenty. And, paradox
ical a. it may seem, while man may
not b. able to lift himself over the
fence BY tugging at his boot-straps, d
nation can jolly itself up into prosper
GUS tunes, for the reason that business
while II IL commonly thought to bt
very stubborn and practical. in reality
10 very sensitive, being at one time a,
panicky as nervous spinster aud II,
another as easily battered into good
humOr IA II rustic schoolgirl.
We are to have good times Blu
what good will II do unless we learr
the lesson that hard times tried tt
teach Us? That lesson was the neccs
sity COR thrift, economy and frugality
Il this prosperity we are trying TO in
duce IL prosperity with Il capital P-i
by 1t we mean a recrudescence Of til,
last era Of extravaganza, speculation
and OverdOing-then we want none o
IT. For such prosperity leads only t.
calamity again. There is no greater
curse to country than time wher
every one is making abnormal profit.
and whole population is fevcicd b,
the hope OF growing suddenly rich
Real prosperity is of slow and cautious,
growth, in proportion a. it is pcrma
nent.
Mankind is fond OF huNting for pro
found and high-sOunding reasons fnl
its troubles, when the real causes liz
In personal weakness and defects o
character. How many deep theories
have been advanced to explain our per
fOd Of financial stringency! We have
been told, with much exploiting o
statistics and syllogisms, that thu
cause is the Wilson bill, or the demone
tization Of silver, or too rapid progress.
In invention. or the knavery OF Wal
street, or the effect OF populism, OF
this. or that. Now the actual com
mon sense fact is that national hard
times are due to the same thing that
got the prodigal son into trouble-im.
providence. A whole nation spending
moro than we earn, living beyond our
means, doing business unwarranted
By the amount Of our capital, constant.
u taking foolish risks, we come at last
70 the end Of our rope, the lariat
tightens, we are hauled back to cash
basis BY the irrefragable rules OF arith-