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Show j BE SANE AND CONSERVATIVE. We print elsewhere in this issue a story on the condition of the mining market and we herewith issue to all this warning advice: Remember Re-member the financial flurry, the mild panic that took place a very short time ago from which the country has not yet entirely recovered. re-covered. It was caused by. over speculation by men striving and fighting fight-ing to make a fortune out of nothing. During the last few days wc have had occasion to observe the frenzied attitude, the nervous, quick movements of the crowd of men who have surged in and out of the stock exchange. There has been an air of excitement; keen, tense excitement; nervous strenuousness. Wc are among'thosc who believe that the greatest good, the ! greatest achievements are made by men down on the level, not by those intoxicated with an insatiable desire to become suddenly mighty, rich or great, but by those who do their duty, their plain honest duty 11 as men. U Let us not repeat the experience recently had ; let us be wise, con- servative and consistent, because so sure as land and water exist so sure will some one suffer if this mad frenzy continues with everybody trying to get something for nothing. This inad speculation, this insanely in-sanely earnest effort to get rich in a day and give nothing in return is nothing but gambling, plain simple gambling and the net results of it are just the same as the pernicious results of ordinary gambling over the green cloth. In both instances men become unfitted for honest useful effort, they become parasites who sponge and live on the effort and energy of the worker and the producer. Be careful, conservative, considerate and consistent, because if not, when this affair is over you may be numbered with the shorn lambs. |