The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-27

Lll6 ldUOlCig NitS '4e9 Ss
 Aculturalist and the profess- a
 nan are deeply interested in ,
 what the trend of things is
 whether there is to be an in-
 te continuance of the period Of
 ession and lack of confidence, or tther a way can be found to oyer-ils. :. the suffocation and make erS.--
 and industrial preatH,ag easy Is feeling will grow wifn each day ttil after the first ot the year. with season of liquidation pushing for cognition, when the country will be ce to face with the possibility of ,n,s5Ving things or letting things
 their course.
 :. Mere is no reason to look to con
 for the desired panacea. That
 will amend the currency laws,
 lit will not undertake sweeping Nation of a remedial character
 Ian be readily explained In the
 3lace there is no general convic-
 gn the part of the leaders that
 less can do anything to afford re-
 While it is the conviction of seaker Cannon and Senator Aldrieh hat to undertake to do something rithout knowing exactly what it's et- 
 ct will be would be a gross error of dgnaent and probably provide cure hich would be worse than the orig nal disease. It is not denied that ln- suftfcient legislation has come rom Congress during the years when It has Bin within it's power to anticipate AAakresses in the financial structure, Ad to that extent it has contributed ! Athe distress that has come, but in absence of better proof than ex-
 t.ss folk to attribnte to that the se of the trouble. It would be take for congress to experiment on worn-out theory that practice < #kes perfect Financial depression ia a. lack of public confidence are Y Aencate tools and unless used with Ae greatest caution and skill are sure iniure those undertaking to handle them. So that in casting about for the means with which to provoke the con- fidencet which is necessary to restore things to their normal condition con- gress must be largely eliminated from the calculation Legislation in this con nection must be of protective and reinforcing character and cannot be of d constructive character. Men and things have a way of ignoring the demands of legislation, as history shows
 While there may not be 8 lot Q - convincing philosophy in the old habi of whistling to keep ones courage up +pere have been occasions where tn practice has proved most helpful s while the complete cure may not b drawn from a general expression Q rAviving confidence a partial cure ma he looked for in the immediate aban donment of whistling down tn chances of a recovery The situatio has been made worse by the pess ,,sistic talk which has been indulge .bv the false reasoning whic accompanied it. We heard it st 3usiy stated the other day that u swspapers had by concealing the a Tai truth and by conservative Urea hent of the news as treated doi Ynore to make a worse situation impo sible than any other cause. As a ma z Ser of fact what the newspapers ha # #s% done is to be careful not to let u news take on an artificial seriousne 2 lest mischief should be done in co sequence. But had they followed t policy suggested by the gentleman
 ,ofn, we refer it would only pro the truth of our general assertit that little more confidence on mart of the business leaders of t country in themselves would h' nightly in hurrying the day of yived confidence and hence the q of humming factory wheels We or knew a very clever woman who us to view the weather each mornt from her window with the great satisfaction. If the sun was radi' she welcomed it as a useful worl in natures vineyard; if the rain ' falling she welcomed that as the no ishment needed to supplement
 work of the sun; if the day was d and dreary, but dry. that, too, fol at her hands a welcome on the grol that both the sun and the rain nee time in the judgment of Mother ture to complete their joint work. policy did not change the laws of but it did adjust her to them in $ q way that cheerfulness and hope t permanently the place of the chi lessness and depression which she
 about her on every side, and for
 other reason than that people
 themselves succunlb to adverse
 ees