| Show communicated THE TIMES ARE OUT OF JOINT la Is it in the air dow does the spirit of imitation become contagious or is if mankind subject to influences which have their origin in spirit powei there are certain apparently when calamities are multiplied times when accidents as they are called are specially numerous who can account for these phenomena may we call it fatality or do unseen intelligent forces bond bend their energies to supersede kuper sede passive agency for evil or gloo 0 or r can this human a enoy ency be but the toy and plaything i the sport of control which bt baffles atles all foresight all experience all care can a man or men be blinded to causes or effect Is a misplaced switch overlooked or is it hidde Is the maneuvering of a vessel sel made plausible to a perverted or distorted insight or can influence from outside of man make that appear feasible which is truly impracticable 1 and fatal it was once said there la Is a way which right fight to a man but the end thereof is deaubl deatha 11 Is this seem ine 1139 the product of personal reflection judgment or conclusion or to is there a bias which comes through the operation of a different sense house susceptible to good or evil spirits for purposes iss of their ow are there not atmospheric disturbances which produce drought and famine beyond all human control are these conditions super induced by sunspots sun spots by planetary conjunction or by proximity did the stars stare in their courses fight against sisera or to is it a veritable truth simple or disguised that the sun being commanded stood still upon gideon and the moon in the valley of Ajalon ly can the origin of pestilence be as distinctly traced as are its movements from land to lano lana are epidemics and contagious diseases understandable on any hypothesis of science do they not come and boand change their features from year to year as from age to age was wad it not an illusion of years gone by that asiatic cholera originated in indig india because of the tax imposed by great battain ou on the in por tation of salt what of diphtheria which baffles s oal cal skill and best experience or leaves to empiricism or expert experiment moul S the victims of that dread disease which was u unknown but a few brief years ago aeo can it be stated positively where isla grippe first made its appearance or 0 whether on the supposition that it came from russia its virulence is in creased or modified modi fled amid a more highly civilized population what of floods of cyclones and tor ladop which devastate and sweep sween away towns town and decimate human life lif destroying its industries and its labors labor making uncertain all the I 1 of experience and ignoring the calcutt oal cal cult ousS eions of governmental whose prognostications bosti are issued fa for the public ghou while there is dismay and di disaster on land and danger rt t sea the very verv elements in the bowels of the earth earm seem engaged ina in a conspiracy to set at t naught the deductions at aid d appliances an of science and to horrify t til 11 labor and its if dependents in the au bUrran an corridors of increasing mi gases gages new and unexpected and combinations but r understood nullify all pre cauti f and the angel of death by tion gathers the toiled toilers who save by h their families are almost forgot forgotten tsi a with the next days sun these theme queries are all equally oay terl on ous and insolvable by the kerl ken or of k ignorance as of act so ince rice and none nona may say that the angelic opening of ab 2 v biblical or prophetic seal is not thus being demonstrated around the earth and that may be after all there f are ar limes and seasons decrees ampol appoint rit 1 ments in triune uni unison sous 1 testifying to divine purpose through diverse ways wave and inexplicable routine many are willing to admit that la in these great and overmastering caia calami 1 I 1 there is tile the limn IV ing of a mighty hand that as to then them singly or collectively insignificance and inability is en on graven in ever eve r legible characters upon the changing edifice of humanity but that in smaller things mans power and almost omnie otence to is beyond question and beyond dispute very well will that explain expiate the mania for suicide which now and then drags its hole bolo causton victims to dishonored graves grava A can it give lve a solution to that ancon 14 tro troi liable lale thirst for war and bloodshed which brings a nation like ours once be 5 neath its grim and shadowing why during this episode of mad n new reason brotherhood arbitration ana cost were all ignored as they might 1 I have been by the sioux and dawne i on ou our western prairies can even J local ambition animosity ano and hatred in ilk politics be accounted for by the alae 1 or magnitude of the interests involved r t can the present suspension of indus i 4 tries stagnation of trade scarcity of money general lack of confidence and foreboding as to the future be explained or cured by the sages statesmen finati anan ciers or divines doctors they may Y all be when there is but sun and ana shower when there is strength vigor and an absence of any symptoms eika save those of health charlatans are they in id distrust inanition and times time of famine famie president Clevel cleveland failure even acknowledges before the nation that the condition with astounding prosperity explained and so BO men cannot be anything like 1 ke a who cannot give of the disease is united diagne diagnosis be b united as a to 10 the S can remedy remedy hardly while those who look at the surface a of things merely can hardly be expected to pass beyond the vestibule into the great arcana or and effect are where cause secret indissolubly place prearranged and bound tog together etherl D feverish desire and la ig this arese prese present feature of man greed for gold a normal or is it begotten of unnatural conditions ambition and drift Is ius increase of happiness or the precursor and use minister as does I 1 its ita possession fully as is thought though t to the highest and best beat interests of M roan so fur for it men will sacrifice and endure anderko fatigues fatigue place it to unhallowed owed altars all pe upon endearments of 0 life almost the sweet without compan compunction oliou to get a little oi of 1 it homes have been jeopardized and have been denied common lost families comforts and have finally been turned adrift because the gold mania has seized upon th ane ahead head of the household with demon seal acal grip and made him sordid and soulless soul lesa until thought ful men turn from the wreck of f faculty sea ity and endow endowment maln t to loss less suggestive themes the love of money was once said aid to be the root of all evil a many who have it misuse and abuse it and sudden wealth in boom times has bag turned many a man upside down yet spite of crazy extravagant or miserly uses surely money must be ba baj 1 it used to be sid said I 1 with all thy getting get wisdom moderns read with all ail thy netting getting got get woney money ap honestly if thou caust j as 89 Shak shakespeare speare says saye but got get money here in these mountain tops this virus of inoculation asserts its almost universal sway amid the quiet ol of rural life slid and in peaceful set get clements tle ments at a distance from example and the delirium of speculation speculation men become affected until for all sane and insane purposes suggested by money mortgages have been multiplied beyond precedent to ID Uta band those who have escaped this epidemic 0 or r mania are lew few aad d far between betwee nj one man fancied he be saw aw his way to money by engaging in trade he OPO opened ned his little store probably unacquainted with goods whlor was disadvantage the first he be by his bis little capital secured a measure beasa re of credit which was wa disadvantage the second he was not familiar with human nature which was the last and dd crowning disadvantage his custo mers men got into bis big debt and forgot to baybis pay his credit bad become extended at the wholesale house and to secure that he mortgaged lain his store and home gave a chattel mortgage on his goods and then after a few hurrying weeks or mouths of wearing anxiety his little capital had melted away hi bis debts are un collectable and he comes come butof out of the crucible sans sane everything a naked baked sadder mayhap a wiser man our territory has within its borders hosts bostis of victims to this fatuity the insanity of trade and to them these times of depression which are beyond the conception and understanding of the most shrewd astute rod and experienced traders there comes like the aback of an earthquake failure and disgrace so go that men way may peruse at their heir leisure a famous query if the true merchant scarcely is saved where shall the novice and inexperienced 1 appear i we hear bear of a man who mortgaged his farm and home to pay 2000 for what was really a magnificent stallion there might have been mona money y in it and redemption b had ad ability to use such an animal been equal to the fascination and of possession will most likely be sold another one took a notion to a pair or span of english shire mares J the price the guarantee a mortgage on the home and farm which is as an good s a lost some have mortgaged to secure an store until harvest others until the wool was sold a threshing machine allured another a self binding reaper a buggy or wagon perhaps an organ a sewing machine speculation in mines or other foolery all however commanded that ironclad note which has crushed is IB crushing lots of men and lam families ilia as between the upper and the nether millstone the mortgage indebtedness of salt lacounty lake Le county to is declared by experts to be over twenty three million dollars and accordi according nir to good authority other counties are simi similarly lirly burdened exclusive of taxation but the latter save where boods bonds are issued are maloly mainly expended at home while this interest on mortgage owing alike by mormon and gentile Is cramping their ener gies and destroying their lifeblood life blood because most of it is in exported for the benefit of money lenders in the far oil off fast east whence comes this mania this disease lilt ease this contagious epidemic if such it may be called lor for it is in transmitted as easy as cholera it is as continuous in its effects as an la grippe and as fatal as paralysis unless both action and remedy are alike swift and operative in the body politic nor lie is this confined to utah it is almost omnipresent in our cu auntry c this incubus of mortgage and debt the people reel real beneath it the nation staggers as one drunken though not with wine the signs of the times are ominous and there is confusion to in the very air for babylon moves to her appointed destiny and the abb day may nut not be so far distant when the prophecy will be fulfilled which declared that the mere mer banto cbanta of the earth shall weep and mourn over her bar for no man blyeth her merchandise any anymore more some assert that there is a periodicity in theis every so many years unrest and pa lc ic and disaster are among the of In industry austry and commerce but the controlling law the why and wherefore is speculation or remains undiscovered and when experience all ail fails then the world is as helpless as are the be dwellers on the plains plain when boreas marshals his forces of th the air the friends of utah have hoped that neither her nor the cause of zion chih b she be represents might be caught in those calamities which her bar people were gathered to avoid that they might not te be involved in that ruin has been anticipated for years year that her sons and daughters being forewarned might not even be astounded at the magnitude and tumult of a woolda up hearal but that as aa counseled they might avoid all entangling alliances 99 9 paying as they go and so go demonstrating the wisdom of her leaders and the aptness and obedience of her pupils to an astonished and envious world |
