The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-06


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~ .s ''.ts,, made by Joseph
~ at recent ban
s-ss,J nd Worsted Manu-
80. 4, In New York City
( f%3 ! Textile Manufactur-
IN Jember 9TH
a. 49, @ANStsfl melancholy days, the
~ e. the year,
s.s ST asst is the bust, and
sAj quakes with fear"
! in the air; melancholy is
ssA.ss sSrE.j the sheriff. the auctioneer
= ker and Uncle Sam are the
(. Esss & doing business-who
~. try and making money run
st with long faces and
" S.s%.sf rses everywhere; / ought to be
.tSs = 5arted, but I'm not; 1 ought to
!. .S.fN but DON'T my national colors
.ss. = ed white and blue and rot black
" = blue.
met pessimist the 9th i day who
.s.Ft s as full of woe a boy full of green
tW4JF e )ples and collie; he told these were
jerrible times, days of terror and I'M
~ e certainty when a bank account makes a
E man an object OF suspicion and odor
~ I of gasoline makes him a subject of in
vestigation by the Interstate Commerce
III IN Commission. He said the Outlook was
N gloomy; and judging by the last number
guess it was. don't know whether it
was his liver or his plumber, his dges-
= ton, or his credit that troubling
him. gave him my sympathy, but what
he really needed blue pill, little
humor, change of diet and cheerful
-n associations; he doleful enough to
make plank in Democratic platform.
( I'm The best cure know for the blues is a
Nd touch of rheumatism, libel suit, or
night with the Irish players; any OF
these will octupy a mans mind that
he won't have any time left for bother
ing about the trou'l les and terrors of the
times.
The main thing is TO cheerful. Peo-
pie say this is age of high prices and
hysteria, meddlers and muckrakers, po-
ltical prophets and business losses wind
and words. fads and fancies. lungs and
1unatics but expect will get
1T after while, and SMILE
The fact Is the country Just now is
Nike man who has been celeb .ating not
wisely but too much; its hat does not
seem big enough; its Imagination is out
.of joint its of proportion IS gone;
1T is seeing visions and spectres and has
"a bad taste in its mouth. What 1t needs
rs sal hepatica and rest, freedom from
newspaper s. lre-heads and dsturbers of
the peace. We have got to do one of
two hings-lock up Kansas and compel
Canada to annex Wisconsin, or else de-
port our spouters and statesmen to the
Aiutian Islands where the mud volcanoes
made.
speaking to this association ! labored
under the deluson that was addressing
"a sane, reputable and enterprsing body
of American manufacturers. Since then
nave heard of Schedule X, and while
don't konw pc rcisely what it is, in
fer from what ! have heard from able
stump-speaEers that 1t is a mixup of
sodom, Gomorrah and the Ten Com
. 4 ~~-~1nandmens with the 'nots" removed
Moreover a free and fantastic press has
advised me that this Association Is as
fine bunch of malefactors as the coun-
try contains, all wool and a yard wide
AS newspaper man | suppose | ought
to accept that kindly and sympathetic
characteri alton of you the gospel of
the higher criticism yet l hesitate be-
cause have learned by experience
that wood-pulp and wisdom, printers
INK and principle, type and truth, Men
senfhaler and morality are seldom
synonymous terms; and know it is Just
as honorable, If not easy, to make
cloth out of all wool as it is to make
lies Out of whole cloth
ain odd mixture of sceptic and
optimst and l find that talk, threats
twaddle and tommyrot are the principal
ingredients of our reign of terror and
gag cam these.
Personally, l decline to be impressed
by the howl of the humbug, depressed by
the roar of the reformer, suppressed
10y fthe yell OF the zap. 1t may be as my
idoletul friend says that governed
nowadays by emotion and inspiration
rather than by experience and common
sense, that get principles from
the prairies. ideals from Idaho our
motions from Nebraska and our author-
ties from Arizona; thrift may be trea-
son and commerce may be crime; but
the seats of wisdom are not all yet in
trans Mississippi foolish houses and
there are still few people at large
note with pleasure touched with pa
thos, the profound affection which the
Missionaries of the Megaphon profess