The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-07-29


is surcharged with grief and complaint, we
call it a ieremiad. But in my text, Jere-
miah, as by sudden jolt, awkens us TO
thankful spirit.
Our blessings are so much more Dumer-
Gus than our deserts that he is surprised
that any body should ever find fault Hav-
ing life, and with it a thousand blessings,
it ought to hush into perpetual silence
everything like criticism of the dealings OF
God Wherefore doth living man COM
PLAIN"
While everything in our National finances
is Frightening, for the last few years the
land has been set to the tune of Naomi"
There has been here and there cheerful
soloist, but the grand chorus has been one
of lamentation, accompanied by dirges over
Frustrated commerce, silent manufactures,
unemployed mechanism, and all those dis
orders described by the two short words,
hard times" The. fact is that We have
been paying for the bloody luxury OF war,
more than 80 years ago.
But the time has come When this 'deprts-
sion Ought 10 1end-yea when it will end
If the people are Wiling TO do two or three
things by Way of financial 1ned7canent, Tor
The people as well as Congress must JOIN in
tlie work Oh regeneration The best poli,i-
cal economists teH us That there is no good
reason for continued preservation. Plenty of
money awaiting investment. The National
health with never 50 strong an arm or so
clear Brain. Yet We 20 on grooming,
grooming, grooming, as though God had put
| this Marion upon Cruel, and allowed us hut
one decent breakfast IN six months. The
! fact il the habit OF complaining has become
chronic in this country, and after all these
years Of whimper and waiting and objnrga-
| non, we are under such a momentum OF
shivel that we cannot stop.
BUT WHO rs RESPONSIBLE
| for this state of things? Much of that re-
sponsibiiity put upon men in comfortable
! circumstances, who, by an everlasting erowt-
ing keep public confidence depressed and
new enterprises from starting out and new
houses from being built. You know very
! web that one Respondent man can talk So
men into dependency, while one cheerful
physician can wake up into exhilaration a
whole asylum of Representatives,.
] was reading of five men who resolved
that they would make an experiment and
see what they could do in The way OF de
pressing a stout. healthy man, and they re
solved 10 meet him at different points in hin
Journey, anu us he StCppCu OUT tIOIn Ills
house in the morning in robust health ont
of the five men met him and said:
"Why, you look very sick to-day. VIVA
is the natter" He said I" l am in excel
lent health. There is nothing the matter.
But passing down tire street he began torex
anime his symptoms, and the second Of TIT
five men met him and said
why, how bad you do look"
"Wtli," he replied, II don'tfeel very well
After awhile the third man met him, ant
the fourth man met him, and the Fl lth mar
came up and said Why, you look as i
you had had the typhoid fever for six weeks
What is The matter with you?" And tin
f man against whom the sirategem had bee,
laid went home and died. And yen NEE
man with perpetual talk about hard tii,fe
t and bankruptcy and dreadful Winters tia
are TO come, you break down his courage
/ will make a contract. II the people O
the United States for one week will tail
cfieerlully, l will open all the manufactures
, / will give employment 10 all the unoccu
pied men and women; / VIII make Il liyel
market for your real estate that is ea,in
you up with taxes; will stop The long pre-
/, cessons on the way TO the poor-house an
) the penitentiary, aud l will spread a plcn
, tiful table from Maine TO California, an
: Oregon TO Sandy Hook, and the whole Ian
4 shall carol and thunder with National ju
3 biiee.
t Ii YOU men in comfortable circumstance
Z do not stop complaining, God will blast you
a harves;s and see how you viii get alon
5 without corn crop; and he will sweepy
with floods; and he will devoar you wit
: grasshoppers; aud he will burnyour city. ]
you men in comfortable circumstances llee
on complaining, God will give you som.
thing TO complainiabout. Mark that!