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Show WORDS OF WISDOM. J. G. Holland saye: It seems to me, that if ever there was a time in a rich man's life when he should indulge in luxuries, or, perhaps, I should say, use his money in euch a way as lo give people work to do, it is in a time of depression like this. If he has building to do, let him build. Materials Ma-terials and labor are cheap, and he will never have so good a time again. He certainly will not if he waits uniil better times arrive. Instead of this, he Bhuts up bis purse, curtails his expenses, ex-penses, and waits while people starve. The truth is that half the evils which the poor are feeling now come from the rich man's short-sightedness and cowardliness. Every luxury that he indulges in gives work to somebody. Every enterprise that he engoges in put) bread into hungry mouths. 1 should say that every rich man that cuts off his luxuries in a time like this, or fails to devise all possible schemes to keep the poor employed, and then sits down and doles out his money to keep them from starving most lamentably fails of doing his duty. I'm not a rich man, but if any ol my good friends have more money than thty know what to do with r rwUiB thorn fr, t something that will give work to idle hands, to do this at once, and do it it all the time. The work that produces pro-duces a garment that you procure as a luxury is to the person that makes it a necessity. The house which you Duild in a time of depression, helps to bring the better time when you can get a good rent for it. The fact is that the good lime we are all waiting for is locked up in the form of money in the coflers of those who refuse to use it to their own advantage, as well as to the advantage of those who are suffering for lack of labor." |