Show Is TS it quiet or stagnation there needs nb abi orator oralo Y to set orth forth the decadence of mercantile and ind eomme comme commercial r clai cial In interests terestA among us rhe che the wharves the closed factories in ln the sub suburbs bibs he empty warehouses and tho the thode thede de clining dining re rents repts lits th the u useless se less capital finding no outlet in profitable euter enterprise ter prise the tenantless houses in this cl eity city y and the surrounding neighborhood I 1 and the utter jm m mai Wai ning h a cash purchaser uk chasel rabi for unimproved real estate at it hn any price these tell their own sad I 1 story in langu agenore nore more forcible than the utterance of human speech it is worse ihan than than iban folly to disguise the truth the sanguine Ban guine are forea forever i e pleading for hopeful word words arl ari anid arid phaye phayo haye have repeated repented the diction at every new for the last lait three year yeam that the tlde tide has turned and that trade was wa reviving we would gladly echo the cheerful strain if it were not misleading and likely to do far more harm than good there are whenn when the word of encouragement is ls all that is needed to give a start to enterprise and stir the pulses of trade to fresh activity but it needs more than that at present t re rei 1 cover the market from its lethargy antt and renew haeng among us tb tho the 0 hum 01 of busy industries owing to our monetary system we are at a disadvantage with all the rest of the world und nd V new tew york feels it fan fac ore jm ore pre thai than any other northern city ten sears years have elapsed sinco since the war was ended and anid our met 14 has gone back during the interval Inter val tal in nearly ei every very form forni of commercial activity the thel e evidences vider lees fees cannot be concealed from others everi even if we would blind our own eyes to the truth and aud he Is no true friend of our city who alters batters the vaulty vanity of our peole people with false colorings 3 regarding its condition the very natura oflus of its far reaching connections and intimate sympathy with outside industries and activities tivi ties now more or less prostrate or paralyzed new now york has haffelt felt feit more keenly than any other financial centro centre the general depression and if some remedy Is not soon applied this buffi buffering bring will become chronic and the prostration will be permanent who is there that is s making inaki urr ncr money where are the steady dy accumulations which ordinarily wait on untiring industry in what reservoir are garnered the profitable returns of far reaching commerce who knows of anything that today to oday 0 day a fair return for the capital waiting walting Idly ridly iho ibe opportunity port unity of profitable use what trader wh whether ather dealing in wholesale with distant customers or at retail with our own citizens can take an account of stock neit avit bash value mark oss off all debts that gite give i him any uneasiness and point to to the balance of steady gains somme borne show a larger surplus on paper papers but who canturk can turn all his cataw estate into ral roal money pay a y 0 onn ff his hib hi guest honest li fides flues and count in n b and hand as wag was really worth ten years go there is isa a way out of this quagmire but the people mufit must be thoroughly aroused bedore before they will take it and flud so many are already entangled led that they aro arp afraid to struggle scrugg le lest they sink the deeper and fail fall hopelessly off sanni final extrication the paper money I 1 fi teni is the leaden weight that fetters industry and stifles enterprise if our c citizens were wideL wider awake enough to see this as jt t really is when stripped p ed of all disguise disguises si they would fi nind find n IT a method of deliver dellver ance something lai ral might be doneta set et the reform in motion if a few fow reis reig resolute 0 inen men would take tahe ta kethe the initiative in good earnest if the chamber of C commerce and the several produce and commercial exchanges would by united or oe separate parate aca action tion resolve to apply truthful names to existing realities the movement would be well weil U rated we mean by this ju ha mij nii every honest man who 1 I 1 lie lle te and a sham the present agn mones money ey standard standal stan dard daid a 1 is would give jils his bolc V in favor ot of fixing a g gold old oid price and a gold standa standard Td from a riven given dato date say aay the of september next to his daily transactions the quickening influence of the change would he be felt at once throughout the c country tr it needs but a little courage on u the part barf of a few to set the ball in motion and the rema Tema remaining ining sequences would need meed nothing but careful guidance if those who are so deeply deerly 1 inter pier 1 begin to call cali a dollar by is its true li name rne ine to enter every trade at it redl redi price in ift dol do dollars jans Jars to ro quote a paper er promise amise worth 81 84 8 1 cents to the hundred un jred i as an actual depreciated ncy circulating af at this una lul idl als ais Is cokeen to keen nil all their thein real money and adjust their dealings to it anthis on this basial basis the firs effectual step to toward ward a new prope prosperity will llave ve been taken this I 1 is throwing no d discredit en on government issues andy and so far fan from depreciating the paper money it would tend toive tolve it an Inere increased isted market value no b one n i e F boull au 14 decline e til fil cli oil neto to take the greenbacks greenback green backs sOT sor or the e banc ban notes these thesis would jascur pass rass current rentford for a aa much or more mope As f at resent present but their ar real val vai value u e would be stated openly instead of r reckon olied oiled cb vertly covertly as daw an and i 1 the true object ta to be attained wo would be bp fairly before the public nomore no more tb be concealed or og evaded until it iraq reached instead of selling a ibar rel of flour at ats sa and taking eight one dollar greenbacks green backs fon for it let idt the price pride be and paya eight green reen back backs stor for it umcil each reckoned at 84 cents if gold could once be bd fe stored restored lo 10 its real place in the daily reckonings of this market Alid he relief would be so great that people would wonder how they ever consented tollie to the usurpation of this nightmare which has hast afflicted us for so many years we shall never begin to loosen this yoke until we set tha task fairly before us in some such way we have suggested we i commend this to the thoughtful consideration 0 of all who are not satis satisfied nie fie d to sink without a struggle into anto tio tio lio insolvency yv Y 0 com meree |