The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-09
HoWIs of Apostles of Evil More
Humorous Than Harmful
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missions. Money is not So scare that
banks refuse legitimate borrowers.
The reverse is true. We nave sent
large sums abroad of late without
cramping our financial 1t
comes to me from more than one
quarter of the country that men who
are pessimistic in speech are prosper
Gus in pocket. Things are not. tied
up tight when New York registers
more automobiles han ever before
and when that great industry is push
ed to the full. The Irvine manufac-
turers are running day ard night to
furnish the exceptional quantity Of
binding Irvine that this years wheat
crop will require. W~oolgroWers are
not complaining of prices obtained for
their clip, nor are silk mills objecting
because Of idle looms. The savings
banks Of the city of Boston show that
in the six months ending with Apri
3Oth last, both the numbe of de-
poSitorS m the amount Of their de-
posits grew, and that during three
months of h current year the ratio
Of increase of deposits was greater
than for either Of the two former
years, and that the sum on deposit in
that single city sets a new high re-
cord. In like manner the four lead
ing savings fund Institutions Of the
city of Philadelphia report on May Isl
All increase III uepOSltS over May j
1913, of eight and one-half millions
and an increased humble of deposi.
tors in that same period Of 5,316.
/ nave heard it suggested hat tn
number of savings-bank depoSitors
and their accounts always increased
in dull times. If that indeed be so
then it is certainly an evidence tina
for a very large part Of our popu.
ton dull times appear to be period!
when the surplus increases.
Cheer For Mental Mourness.
If you and l get away from tn
crowded centers Of our Middle sns
Eastern States where mental mourn
ing exists for conditions that Cal
never return since the day of master.
is over and must hence
forth be a servant-if, l say, we ge
away from these centers into vhic1
the light is breaking but which it ha
not yet fully Illuminated, we shall fin
: a different atmosphere. From far-of
California and from Florida; from
the fields of Oklahoma and Kansas
Missouri, and Nebraska comes tn
glad cry of a harvest al but ripe 70
the sickle. There was no moCrnin:
r in the IN groves of Calf mi
when l saw them in March, an,
1 Florida utters no cry of distress i
D sending $4,000 carloads of her frui
to market. The bosom OF the kind
a: earth is replete with her generou
gifts in hay, in fruit. in wheat. i
: many ways she offers. her abu1dan
bounty. And while we can not emu
! late the mental gymnastics of thu
: critics who would see in d single bric
period the ills of the tariff by claimin
on our part that natures bounteous
ness is due to the absence of exec
: siVe duties. We may yet be glad thu
that the minds of the mental mourn
r ers are to be cheered: that the field
are open to the employment of vii
S ing thousands: that the railways Sc
a great business already at the.
e hands. perhaps to such d degree as I
e overtaX their covers. 1t is no drea,
that. tells us the rewards for agricu
tural labor will be large this year an
: that the workers who handle thes
vast crops must in their turn becon
a buyers of our other products.
C sas these things are not dream
t There are 70 dreams that rise to hu
S Us save among those who look sad
e at a dead raSt, who are not ready f,
a read ,E.tTsert to the living presel
IS land tn fopeful future and who wo
l. 81 = ghosts.
# There is a great story out of al
/ cent history hat has its applicable
@ t. us now. At the time when Ham
n IbaIs army was encamped near Ron