The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
WILL WE HAVE HARD TI~l
Answer All Depends on now the
voters Cast Their HnIiots
I'm N0vembsr.

whether we shall have hard times
,his fall and for four years to come
Sanends upon the voters. No patriotic
publisher, business man or citizen CT
any kind wants to see haro times in
The fall or ever. Still less does anyone
who deserves the name of citizen want
40 see a panic. Moreover, no public
man of any kind, nor any citizen, will
do anything, no matter how little, to
bring on hard times from any poiiti-
col motive whatever. 1t would be the
ba sest kind Of act, unworthy of any
true man. Unluckily these business af-
fairs are sometimes beyond the control
of any person or group of persons. The
manic of '93 was caused not because
ANYBODY wanted it, or tried to bring
a. on. but began, and waxed more ter
rible as time went by, in spite OF the
efforts of hundreds, perhaps OF thou
sand of patriotic and strong men.
To understand how a season of hard
times or panic will begin is almost I'm
possible. A person, or persons, per-
hans a dozen or perhaps 10000, have
fell that a period of contraction and
Of stagnated business was about to
come upon them; and then. the dozen
or 10 900 as a matter of self protection
must curtail their own operations Of
whatever kind. Perhaps they must
loan less, or sell less, for fear that
thew cannot get their pay. That feel
ing may not be necessary, but 1t can
not be denied that II II natural. If
Il were possible TO prevent everybody
from imagining that any untoward
circumstances could happen, 1t might
be possible invariably to prevent
panic, but there 10 no controlling the
timid. Indeed, in such matter there
is no controlling the brave. Men of
immense financial resources and of
uncommon nerve have been known to
risk their entire fortunes, seeking to
prevent financial disaster, for Others
as well as themselves, and they failed
failed to do this, and failed fnan-
cially.
It is to be hoped for our own sakes, as
we'll as on account of numberless labor
ers and capitalists of the country,
whose heterogeneous upon one an
other cannot be denied, and all of
whom depend upon mutual conf
dence each for the advancement and
happiness of the others, that nothing
like a stringency in the money mar
ket, nothing like q curtailment Of
credits, nothing like the faintest timid-
ity on the part Of business men any
where, will be perceptible as the next
two or three months pass by. Per-
haps it may seem optimistic to give
the following advice. 1t 10 that every
body, great and small, high or low,
who is charged with the making or
marring of busin ess, shall consider in
the utmost seriousness whe ther he or
she cannot 90 a little towards pro-
noting that confidence which II 80
necessary for a continuation of good
times, by distinctly determining to
continue things political and econom-
ical as they are, and by distinctly de
termining not to help bring about
change. 1t is easy to say that panic
is not likely. We pray that 1t is not
It cannot be denied that the slightest
appearance of dread at great political
or economic changes has hitherto at
times started retrograde movement
of financial devastation, which it has
been beyond the power of any man, or
any group of men, no matter how
large to STAY.