Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-06
SENSIBLE LETTER ON THE FL
NANCIAL SITUATION.
Written BY Preacher In Forrest
Co. to the Daily News.

K. Hall, one of the best known and
most highly respected citizens in the
city. 1t will be seen from the com
mnnlcation that Mr.. Hall has been
keeping in close touch with the finan-
cial situation and in the letter print
ed herewith he expresses views that
coincide with those OF the leading
iinanciers of the city and the article
will show the average man the use
lessncss of worrying over something
that does not exist, or as Mr.. Hall
expresses it, Running away from
nothing.
Mr.. HALLS LETTER.
Editor Daily News.
! On the '22d day of July, 1864,
which was the day of the great battle
OF Atlanta, the Fortieth Alabama,
which was the regiment to which |
belonged, occupied a position about
half mile in front OF our main line
of breastworks around the city. We
! had been placed there as pickets and
were divided into squads of eight to,
ten men. We were in picket bitches
about one-hundred feet apart. In an
early hour in the forenoon some one
Of our squad called our attention to
the fact that those on our left were
running towards the rear We asked
them why they were retreating and
the reply was they are thanking US
on the left y
The UNSEEN DANGER.
1t is universal rule with mea that
no danger is SO great as the danger
which is unseen. 1t makes no differ
ence whether it is real or imaginary.
!, People lose their wits and 90 wild
: and become frantic in the effort to
get away from it. The result of this
stampede on our left was a rush for
, the rear on the part of every man Of
, our squad. Some went faster than
: others, but we all went. | was the
youngest man in my company, if not
in the regiment, being only II years
old
We had not gone far before it oc-
cured TO me that we were fighting a
strange sort of battle. We had not
heard the wbistling of Il bullet or the
hiring OF gun near us. These sounds
had been quite familiar for months.
On rising bill short distance
from where we started | turned to
look back and saw just behind me
. one of the bravest men | ever knew.
u l asked him: What are We running
from? He said Let's stop here We
turned aside and got behind some uu-
dergrowth and with our guns ready
> waited for the attack that never
came
After waiting few minutes my
comrade said: Hall, that report is
oil stuff, And stuff it was
Men who had faced death on hun
= dred batttefields had run away from
nothing.
We went ba;k to our vacant picket
bitches and after Il while our men all
returned Some of them not until
they had run the entire half mile
back to our line of battle.
That very evening we advanced on
battery while it poured its hail of
death into our shattered ranks. In
the morning we were the victims ola
panic, in the afternoon we would
have gone anywhere that duty called
us to go.
i have frequently thought of the
above occurrence as | have read in
our papers the effect of the present
strlngsncy in financial matters.
While most people have kept their
heads and displayed patriotism
worthy of them, the papers report,
III some of our large cities condition
OF panic and senselessness as ruinous
as 1t is ineXcusable Millions of dol
lars, have been withdrawn from banks
where money was safe and boarded
where it is not only unsafe but where
It's presence is peril 10 its owners.
Burglars are busy everywhere. Rob
berries are OF constant occurrence.
These desperate people make it
their business to keep posted about all
the loose cash there is in homes
both in the city and country and hui
man life counts for nothing when it
stands between them and few hun
dred dollars. 1t is probable that a
thousand people are robbed to one
bank failure
The fact is, that ninety nine one
hundredths of the danger is in the
imagination, with those who arc af-
fected by panics.
The clouds roll away. the sky be
comes clear, people return to their
senses and wonder that they were
ever the victims of such folly.
am glad that our people in this
section seem to realize that interest
and duty alike demand that they give
to our friends who are at the head of
our great business institutions the
confidence which they have mcrited,
and the support which they deserve
We will feel better ii we ''stand by