The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-08-04

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Urges Their Claims tc CoSGdevoe--Tl'e
Voyage OF I!fe.
The discourse Of Dr.. Talr.age ;8s. Sunday
shows how ali may help IN the rss!ora'io2
of good times aud is most apProTr.2rc. ieHt,
Lamentations iii 50, WhsretoTe 'o;h q Nv
ing man complain:
a cheerful irterrosatoTy II the most me-
ancholy book Of the Bible Jere&!aa WTe'e
so many sad things that we have Vert
named after MIN. and when anything IS SUI
charged with grief and complain We call It q
jeremiah. But IN nay text jeremiah. rs ~
q sudden Jolt, wakenS up ID thankful spirit
Our blessings are so much more numerous
Than our deserts that he Is surprised taat
ANYBODY should ever ind taait. Having lie,
and with it IN 5usand blessings, it ought 20
hush into perpetual silence everything like
criticism Of the dealings OF God. Wherefore
doth q living man complain
While everything in our national finances
is Frightening, for the last few years the
land has been set to the tuue OF Naomi.
There has been here and there q cheerful
soloist, but the grand chorus has been oae
of lamentation accompanied hy dirgeS over
prostrated commerce, silent manufactures,
unemployed mechanism and al those disor-
ders described by the two short words,
"hard times" The fact. is that we have been
paving for the bloody luxury Of war more
than 50 years ago. There were great Da-
tional differences. and we had 70; enough
Christian character to settle them by arbitra-
tion and treaty, and so We went Into battle,
expending life and treasure and wei n!sh
svsnIin, the na.ional finances, and 29TTa
and south, east and west, have ever slnce
been paying for those four years Indulgence
in barbarism.
But time has come when this deHres-
sion ought to end-yea, whea i; viii end II
the people are willing to DO Two or three
things 6y way of taancisi melicament, fer
the people as well as congress must join IN
the work ofrecuperation. The best political
economists tells US that there IS no good rea-
son for continued proStratioa. Plenty OF
money awaiting investment. The national
health with never so strong aD arm or SO
clear brain. Yet We go on groa2l1g,
groaning, groaning, as though God had put
this nation upon cruel and allowed US but
one decent breakfast in six months. The
fact is the habit of complaining has become
chronic in this country, and after all these
years of whimper and wailng aud o6jurga7
ton we are under such q momentum OF SHY
el that we cannot stop.
There are three prescriptions by which |
believe that our individual and national n
nances may be cured Of their present de-
preston. The first is cheerful conversation
and behavior. l have noticed that the peo-
pie who are most vociferous against the day
in which we live are those who are IN com
Portable circumstances. have made 1nQu!-
ry Of those persons who are violent IN taelT
jeremiads sgainSt these tunes and have
asked them, ''Now, after oil, are you not
making q living" After some hesitation
and coughing and clearing their throat three
or four times they say stammeringly, les.
So that with a great multitude Of people 1t IS
not question Of getting a livelihood, but
they are dissatisfied because they cannot
make as much money as they would ike TO
make They have only 81, 900 in the bank,
where they would ike to have 81, 900. They
can clear in year only $1,000, when they
would like to clear $4,000, or things come
out Just even. Or in their trade they get 50
day when they wish they could make 81
or S.. oh says some one, ''are you not
aware of the fact that there is a great popu-
latioa out 0: employment, and there are hun.
dreds Of good families of this country who
are at their wits end, not knowing which
way to turn Yes, know it better than
any man in private life can know that SAD
fact, for it comes constantly 10 my eye and
ear, but who is responsible for this state OF
things?
Much Of that responsibility put upon
men in comfortable circumstances who hy an
everlasting growing keep public confidence
depressed and new enterprises from starting
out and new houses from being built. You
know very well that one respondent man
can talk so men into despondency, while
one cheerful physician can wake up into
exhilaration whole asylum of hypochondri-
acs. It is no kindness to the poor or uneul-
ployed for you to join in this deportation. Il
you have not the wit and common sense to
think Of something cheerful to say, then
keep silent. There IS no man who can be
independent Of depressed conversation.
The medical journals are ever illustrating It.
I was reading Of FIVE men WHO resolved
that they would make an experiment and
see what they could do in the wsy OF depress-
ing stout, healthy man, and they re-
solved to meet him at diferennt points II
his journey, and as he stepped out from
his house in the morning in robust health
one Of the FIVE men met him and said:
s'Why you look very sick today. What is
the matter" He said: 81 am N excellent
heaith. There is nothing matter But,
passing down the street, he began to examine
his symptoms, and the second Of the i7e
bod
do look!' ''Well," he replied, u don feel
very well" After awhile the third man
met him, and the fourth man net him, and
the fifth man came up and said ''Why, you
look as II you had had the typhoid fever for
six weeks. What is the matter with you
And the man against whom the stratagen
had been laid went home and died. And
if you meet man with perpetual talk about
hard times and bankruptcy and dreadful
winters that are to come you break down
his courage. a few autumns ago, as the
winter was coming on, people said: '.We
shall have terrible winter. The poor will
be frozen out this winter. There was some
thing in the large store Of acorns that the
squirrels had gathered and something in the
phases of the moon and something IL other
portents that made you certain We were go
ing 20 have hard winter. Winter came. It
was the nildest one within my memory
and within yours. AL that winter
long I do not think there was an icicle
that hung through the day from the caves
ofthe house. So you prophesied falsely.
Last winter was coming and tie people said:
ave shall have unparalleled suffering among
the poor 1t will be dreadful
winter" Sure enough II was 3
cold winter, but there were more large
hearted charities than ever before poured out
on the copntry; better provision made fer
the poor, so that there have been scores OF
winters when the poor had harder time
than they did last winter. Weather pro
phets says we will have frosts this summer
which will kill the harvests. Now, let ne
tell ynu Ynu boYe led ,Nice annllr the Mei-