The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-23
rs THERE IMPROVEMENTS
Sam Jones Thinks There Has Beon
Since the Election
business IL ConvaIoscing-Advoratos Let
ting Matters Take Their Own Courss
for 3 Time-Industrlaf 1ntert
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~ ~ INC PAcScAt NAAt udS LuSIc Deem
Improvement in trade, in business, in
manufacturing, in confidence? i am
sure the question can be answered in
the affirmative. I have not been i
Of those who Thought that this country
would pick up and move of like q boy
IN his bicycle or like Nancy Hanks on
the race track. We have been sick abed
a long time. We are weak and enact
ated, but if I am any horse doctor at
all the PATIENTS convalescing. We are
walking around the room a little, andI
think the patient will be out in the yard
in a few days.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES III con-
fdence. A large majority OF the peo-
pie Of this country believe that there
will be improvement. Their faith
brings confidence. After all, faith is
confidence. The question Is oft re-
peated: Do you see any change? Is
there any change in conditions and atti-
tudes2 7 have been glad to see the
spirit Of the press. All the goldbup
papers assert that times are improving
THAT conditions are bettered. and 4
great many free silver papers are adj
uniting candidly that things look bet
ter and the times look brighter. Brad
streets and Dun's reports have a ~roseate
color they have not had. Manufactures
are starting up; there have been more
q six per cent advances in railroad
stocks and bonds, and so on. It does
seem to me that X with n cry the
people would now say that the issues
have been settled, at least for the time
being, and that If MI. Mckinley would
give the people of the country the as
surance that there would be no call for
an extra session Of congress to tinker
with the tariff that we would soon he
Wen n hearty, Money would circu-
late, business improve, manufactures
start up and you would see a demand
created for all the surplus which has
accumulated in various lines for The
past few. years.
l am sure there can be no improve
ment il part of the people are sulking
a stin predicting the awful events
that the campaign orators predicted
before the election. Lombard and Wall
streets may own this country, but the
goods have not been delivered yet. The
tenants are stilrin charge OF their farms.
the board of directors and officers are
still in charge Cd. the banks, the mer-
chants stiIl in charge Of their stock
OF goods, and the manufacturers still
act like they own their own plants. All
these things are ours for awhile longer,
and the country acts like every fellow
is going to hold ON.
see no reason for the masses abusing
the banks, I am fortunately or unfor-
~tunately a director of a bank. know
bank and nearly every bank in the
south is straining every nerve to help
its customers. They are borrowing
money to lend to their customers, and
there is scarcely a bank in the south
that is not loaded to the guards with
paper it has discounted. / am sure /
have no disposition to abuse banks and
bankers. They have kept me out OF
many a hole and Lent me money when
the fellows who abused the banks had
non to lendme4 Generally when you
hear q fellow abusing banks he IS a fell
low who either has .nd credit at the
bank or has abused his credit there.
In either case it is the whine Of a
sycophant. Banks don't go around
knocking fellows down and taking
from them what they have got. Banks
are run by men justlike farms are run
by men, and stores are rim by men,
and sawmills are run by men; and the
cashier Of a bank is usually as clever
a fellow as you will find, doing all he
can for those who deserve to have some
thing done for them.
Sometimes men get setin their ways
against different things and couldn't
give p reason why they are SO set
against them. The average fellow in
this country seems to have spite at the
railroads. With such men every rail-
road il a monopoly, a grinding corpora
ton, a souIless, merciless concern.
Railroads are run by men just like every
thing else Is run by men. The officers
OF the railroad do not only serve the
patrons Of the road, but they serve the
stockholders Of the road. The stock
holders want q little dividend on their
stock land it has been precious little
they have been getting for awhile,
tool; and the public on the other hand
is eyerlastingly clamoring for reduced
rates. I am glad we have got railroads.
They are q great conxenience and a
great blessing to any countrys and if a
fellow don't like the way they do he can
walk, or haul his goods in a wagon. I
found out long ago that If you viii take
the fellow who is "cussing'' the rail-
roads and make him president Of a rail-
road he will Jump clear over on the other
side with both feet with one bound and
in the fact that he has the drop
the universe now.
These interests are all mutuaI-the
railroads. the manufactures, the mer-
chants, the farmers, the bankers, all
are mutual interests. If we would make
them mutual and each help the other
and push forward and stop this ever
lasting fighting and abusing each other
this country would get q move on her
right now.
The Dryanites say that Mayk Hanna's
barrel elected Me inley-that Lombard
and Wall streets own the country, that
the railroads have subsidized legisla-
ton and that the middlemen have
robbed the farmers until the country Is
Have we not laws against
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