Show communicated TIMES ARE TRULY PERILOUS when doctors disagree who shall decide deo ioe if ever thia query could be asked ached with propriety now la Is the time for every oue one dou doulames deula lares reB the existence ol of a an evil which confronts the entire nation and many there are outside of personal inte interests interested reste who ardently desire and would work hard to and and apply the remedy if such a tiling thing exists men call this condition oae of trade depres 1 stagnation agnation Bt it 16 might rather be called for it amounts to this thia and its extend far enough to be deemed universal solitary branches brano heB or lines of manufacture have otten often been paralyzed for reasons of one kind or another local circumstances and changing fashions fas account for lobee which are not geldum un transient and just as aa the physician can prescribe preg Oribe for aud and overcome a simple or serious individualized ailment so there have been readily at moved but when there is a complication of diseases a consultation of experts to is deemed w wisdom adoni and even then a patient rallie 6 recovering eav I 1 e ring tone strength th and health acial and Q T bar lie to tobe be i 4 ilan rot rat Jhb arcely two creore have be fawe V view beof odthe the dueease dle ease or suggest the idarae same ret remedy nedy no one seems to dream of a consul a tiou tion of experts though the head be sick and the heart faint stad and likely enough ir if such an one could be had the rival thinkers would be as jealous and suspicious or of each other as loulu a coterie of pronounced ies or eclectic professionals professional lp though there might be unity ol of opinion as aa to the condition of the patient i and the need deed i f pro action aatlo n some omo way ox or another men who deem that gold in abundance is the duly guarantee of prosperity pros proal erity and progress want every transaction expressly to a gold basis and they look upon its ire exportation with dismay to trench upon the national guld reserve la Is looked upon as a deadly BID silver emin heude de clare thai the of the efte metal is the basis of arese prese i nt and they bee in the continuance ol of the Shor bherman act and in unlimited coinage a panacea for all of bd ills othere other however tee in this thi tb bugbear of cheap money P and with them coinage is to be restricted strict ed to the home product not a few want the ratio adjusted between gold and silver of today then in turn the old ad sneer and daem this fatal fatai to this great industry of the west wear the ultra patriots want america to go it alone on this question and their opponents consider con siner international agreement an a an absolute essential is in regard to any change important however as this bimetallic question Is to all concerned the paper or flat fiat money men think that the precious metals could be largely superseded by the issuance of governmental promises to pay making these the universal medium for i pensions and other disburse disbursements disbursement men ta and receivable for duties taxes and other internal obligations more money is what is w ante J and that prosperity which ensued for some years after the closing of the he warts war is approvingly presented as an all object lesson which cannot be disregarded or ignored financial uncertainty to is hold held to be a natural outgrowth of prospective tariff tinkering or revIs lori the party in power it is cli claimed timed are committed to thi tb land sand friend and foe alike 1 urge the neb welty for action though for widely different reasons A special session of congress COD gross is in pressed sed almost delu demanded that policy may culminate in added I 1 dory clory or in defeat but president cleveland appears as impervious to friendly assumption of what should be done as he is in to the sneer deer of hostility and undisguised opposition tiu te have come in for their share of denunciation as promoters of ac knowlt awed conditions they are admittedly mitt edly able to stiffen and sustain prices but this very fact Is used to prove their responsibility for that slackness knees of demand for articles which they control curiously enough while these trusts have been thus denounced for combination or rather for limiting and so making prof profitable table the output in certain lines over has been tooled tae afie otis one tn in acet ato appoints P of tri lato certain it is in thit hat industries thu tey protected hare invited rivalry from individual late wad dissolution or ar disintegration of the former in hoots beets of lustan instances eee haa bag brought di maberto aaker to the latter the stringency ot of the money rooney market is ia malie made responsible for fie out BUR pension of building operations throughout the country no european market for wheat has hag reduced lie its price in grain centers below the record of many years and weather eather conditions condl tiona are said to have curtailed the thede demands of Tanners and flattened thu market for agricultural implements the tb low prices of df oal kod leai lead two great stapled of western and liati national onal production constitute in some minds thep hibl lef hatire ano of much mach of the min presets present une unwelcome lcoble conditions even ilia pair fair receives this the awit heb of a it a 14 tew bu arriete linen men for diverting from legitimate chat cha enela this the vital izing currency of the nation nailon and its ita separate parate ee localities stupid I 1 an it may bea in fora for drowning man to catch at a paltry saw straw its ita futile character Is ia equal leJ nay exceeded by the narrowness narrow nesa of theories theor leg and elewa so inefficient for so widespread features of inanition in industries and trade I 1 Is ie it not possible without any desire to multiply or nah judge cause arid and effect that there is at least one more reason for this everywhere asserted ascer aseer ted tea tag nution and that none of those enumerated are adre than partially can it be said that prudence 4 and acono economy M are national or even local eraitt tr aitt 7 have we not overestimated estimated our resources entered upon many extravagances presumed too much on our credit and involved ur pelves elves in debt by rea ebing after the impracticable or not lassitude and inertia the rebound of disease diee aee of lever of fast jiving dying have dot undue speculation the cultivation 0 of a boom spirit wild ventures in tabooed directions produced mova elor our present difficulty has there not been more of hope than thaD judgment more haste baste to become rich than con as to the means did not many a rosy scheme but alow with the luster of the ignis and was not legitimate business so transfused of this coloring that men every where business men have become allured misled swamped and do de st yeo banks are proverbially cautious and conservative yet they have baab gone down business firms deemed prudent and farseeing far seeing have reeled and fallen be fre the pestilence which has baa walked in the noonday small investors have caught the same infection and for a prospective heavy dividend have lost their all utah has been comparative ay 1 but she ebe also has carried too much sail more ballast a rear re ar ran gement of the cargo good beaman ship aboard and more ready compliance with orders at the helm may yet keep this good ship in still water in sight of a fair haven davk n with justifiable assurances of making port where the prevailing craze for undue profits would make of her a pirate bent on dr and p P d A WV lly ruh wh OM her amid tb the a rocks rocks and brea Bersand leave her to drift ashore where every beacon y IF ys 11 s light la in obscured of greed or only mo to make RPM profound nd rocca wreckage go more and more assured iffery ramin man Is IB tree free to select his hie own reasons far or present anxiety mercantile agencies may endeavor lo io soothe the popular apprehension they may claim that the business of the country ison the a bounder position than ban usual with a smaller average of liabilities 1 but iu in contradistinction to this they mark the lack of confidence which leads to the curtisl ment of loans loaned 1 they point out the enormous liabilities of trusts they note bo be outgo of scold nold and tee see that financial uncertainty pr crevalle prevalle evalle they know of the large indebtedness west and south mouth by mortgage on farms and real estate they count present and discuss present and possible failures but all these conclusions and assertions show increasing business unrest and urge we the thoughtful one at least to avert if possible by caution calamity from him and his bis |