The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-02-20
SLOWLY SUI SURELY.
better Times VIII Come Gradually
and to stay.

better Times VIII Come Gradually
and 10 stay.
After such n long and wide-prevail
ing period of business depression a
that through which we have gone fol
the past three years, IL is not matter
of surprise that we should be impa
tient for the speedier return of bet
ter times. II is. on the contrary, incon
ceivable that we should have any Other
| desire.
Much, however. as we may wish FOL
the instant resumption Of every idle
factory, and the instant providing OF
work for every idle man, our sober
Judgment as u people tells us that re-
turn to such state of great and ma
tional prosperity as that which we
formerly enjoyed cannot be accom-
plished in a day, nor in few weeks,
The sun does not ascend from the hori-
zon to the zenith in the space OF an
hour. or at one leap. Nor can ma
tons industries, wasted and weakened
by long privation. cast aside weakness
and regain all the lost strength in u
day.
Though we desire that depression
shall vanish. and give way to pros
perity as broad as the continent and
as firmly founded as it's mountains, we
should not be unreasonable. Rather
let us survey with satisfaction the
progress we have made since Novem-
Der 3 along that road which leads to
the goal to which we aspire. IL we
contrast our present condition with that
which we well know would have ensued
had we committed ourselves to bust
ness heresy, we may Justly regard with
satisfaction our present state.
While during the past few weeks a
dozen banks throughout the country
have failed. either as the result OF
W weakness or because of improper adj
ministration. we know that had the
verdict of November 3 been different,
the banks which would have been able
to continue payments up TO this time
would have beer few indeed. Since
that date bank deposits have immensely
increased. and all business. instead OF
being suspended by panic, has been
pared with what might have been. then.
we have made great and substantial
progress.
In an address to the Republican Ed
itorial association of New York, made
the other night by DIR. Chauncey De-
pew. he discussed this question with
that felicity and clearness character
istic of him. On that occasion DR.. De-
pew said:
You, gentlemen. as republican editors,
ought to be peculiarly happy tonight. We
have won n great victory. We have done
more: we have averted a frightful d!sas-
ter. 1t is not in the power OF the magma
ton to picture what might have happened
in the tension of the financial and indus
trial world II confidence had received the
shock of the determination of the United
States to embark upon an unknown sea
Of deprecated and debased currency.
THE editor and the orator in the late
were confronted with monetary
and industrial distress greater and longer
continued than ever before in the history
OF our country. Men out of work. men ir
debt. men who could not realize upon
their assets. were looking everywhere for
relief. IL is difficult. to argue with an
empty stomach: more difficult with a
tNdlurlnE EOle OF MORTGAGE. IN SnCn
cases 1t Is easier TO appeal to the magma
ton than to the Judgment.
THE victory has been won: the tremen-
oous panic which would have occurred
had II gone the other way has been avert
ed. but the laborer and the artisan wait
and the money in the vault lies idle. and
the mill and the factory and the furnace
stop and start, and stop and start again.
like impatient thoroughbreds at the COM
of the race. the country cries:
Where Is your prosperity? When are
the good times 10 begin?'
"A people overwhelmed by great ca
amity do not rise instantly TO their for
ner conditions or better ones. Confidence
Is not the Srowth OF night: IL is the
creation of hundreds of tributary elements
which ultimately do succeed in enabling
Il to accomplish its beneficent work
THE powers OF the people will compel
their representatives In congress to sup
port an administration which is their own.
Already We can feel good times. We have
ES25.ooo.o0o TO our credit as against the
rest of the world II only needs confidence
n the stability Of legislation and admin
stration for the next four years for that
golden current TO flow into new enterprises.
giving new employment and stimulation 10
every activity OF farm. of mine and OF fac
tory"
In a little while the long-continued
Drain upon the national treasury caused
oy the deficit will disappear. Still more
mills and shops will open, and slowly,
steadily. surely, yet with ever acceler-
lted speed, we will go forward again,
until we are running ut full speed on the
iood Times and Prosperity road. with
The right of way and no fear of an
other smashup.-Cincinnati CONNER