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Show It is not probable that the complaining com-plaining of dull business will die out until this generation is succeeded by another. It is utterly beyond reason to suppose that this country, in any branch of its business, can be restored to what is was during the period from 1SG3 to 1873. Such a thing h not wholly to desired, even if it were possible. The timo when smart men could make a fortune in a week or a day has gone, and it would require some very extraordinary occurences to again give our people such opportunities. oppor-tunities. It is no new thing to say that it was an unnatural state of aitairs, tho outgrowth of war's demoralization, and that the more natural business condition to which the country has been forced simply compels us to conform to it by going a little slower and with more reason. It is a fact that business is steadily improving in all the legitimate channels chan-nels of production and trade. Phiia. Times. |