Show HOW now TO PREVENT FA PANICS CS No other topic Is so Impressive just now All Allmen men are afraid of a panic Scarcely any anyone one oneS can escape its harmful effect if Ir it does docs come The Portland Oregonian has this suggestion to offer Tho The gold standard Is tho suro sura basis and tho country 1 is carrying nearly nearl or quite as much credit upon it as 38 It will safely hear bear There Thero has been boon somo some expansion lately through the tho national bank system system sy- sy tem tern but the expansion cant can't go much further The remedy now Is Js to reduce speculation cut out get- get quIck rich schemes and get prices of or commodities and the wages that pro produce uce them down to a area rea reasonable basis Men ma may talk as tho they will about the glory and grandeur of or the country countr and Its imperial im Im- In- In penal resources but the wa way to safety and comfort com eom- f c fort lies through steady Industry careful economies and avoidance a alike of ot extravagant ant c. c expectations and extravagant nt but only apparent and temporary realities This Is the tho one ono way to prosperity The Tho Theother Theother other way leads through h Vanity Fair of oC which you OU mR may read the Ic lesson on in authors as different as John Bunyan and William Makepeace l Thackeray Man 1 Manis is so constituted that though ho may aspire to the tho heavens he must keep to tho the earth and he must doit do doIt doit it on oil a no rational course unless ho he would be like the Idiot boy who leaped at the tho star and landed In the mud Prudence Prudence general general prudence prudence with a ageNo age c No new now nation was ever over sedate Youth is the same sarno in t the e bulk as in the tho individual SAnd And the rules that apply appl in the tho one ono case apply In the other The rhe people of this republic are in their youth 3 Things move more moro rapidly at nt the frontier than in established established established regions You will remember this passage In George Eliot's Ellot's splendid novel of ot Adam Bede Poor old Mrs heart W was b broken olten because on account of ot Hetty's misadventure tho tim family would have havo to break brenk up and move awa away She Sho looked forward with dread and an inescapable sinking of tho the heart to the tho journey into a n. anew new count country and to the slow process process Impossible Impossible of completion in her own life UCe or of of re establishment there And yet ct they were cre going going go go- ing lag but f forty miles They rhey would Woul bo be in a new world there They were going because the people in that new neighborhood could never know kno what had befallen tho the family on the old squires squire's estate Distance and the lack laek of Inter-communication Inter made their secret secure there In the old place where she and her husband were born where the they had lived and labored slowly and carefully through their honest lives they had accumulated what was regarded ed as ns a fortuno fortune by their neighbors Such a fortune would be won in a year car by bj a thrift thrifty and progressive farmer in one of or the tho new states of tho the American Union Such a no fortune would be dissipated In a no night b by a son at college And gathered together again b by that same ame son when his superabundance of wild oats crowded him out or of college and forced self support upon him Because life Ufo is swifter In a new than in an old coun country ry there will bo be imprudence in business affairs affairs af at- af- af fairs in this country for man many a n. long year ear to come It is not to be commended but it is a fact tact with will which one ono ma may confidently reckon Mar Martin Un never nevel bought a thing for tor which he lie could not pay pay and and have plenty left His wife never permitted herself herF to want an anything the buying buy ing of or which would at all embarrass her husband And as ns a result no panic could affect them Panics do not as a rule trouble the older countries But the they arc are going fo o recur in this country for tor the next hundred years yearn They can cnn be postponed as to to periodicity and lessened In severity of or course by tho the growing tendency of the people to habits of or frugality and prudence the prudence tho acce accession slon of or stability that goes with i establishment And with that calmer era cra will come tho thi end of or the bigger opportunities the swifter ac accumulations accumulations ac- ac accumulations tho the greater rewards for tor labor and intellectual capacity So long as an these remain we wo shall have n n. currency currency currency cur cur- I rency qu question question and and the panic |