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Show SUPPRESS THE CROAKERS. Within a week the writer has asked ask-ed an even' fifty business , men how their business was, 'and forty-five of them huve answered "rotten." If their names were mentioned, It would be easy to prove that forty of them are liars. And tntoughout tho city should you nsit every man, whether In business or working for -wages, how business Is, forty-flvo out of every fifty will answer an-swer "rotten." ' In the reaction of the past year, following tho country wldu Inflation of values of the years Just preceding, the big man learned to say "rotten," tho little fellow quickly followed suit, and It took the wage earner only a moment to pull a faco 11 yard long, and echo the sentiment. Of the three the assumed pose of the latter Is the most ludicrous, for in nearly every Instance his wngo Is tho same or better, tho prices of many of his necessities are down, ho is drawing draw-ing his money regulaily, and ho looks at the collector thiough blinding alligator al-ligator tears, and takes advantage of that which ho knows only by hearsay that times are bad. It Is true that there has been more or less retrenchment, that In this period pe-riod of reconstiuctlon collections have necessarily been slower than usual. that lots of people are doing business on an I. O. V. and that many a spender spen-der of yore Is snuggling thiough on checks dated ahead. Hut the majority of business houses ure doing more than Uiey did a )ear ago, the average business man Js satisfied with conditions condi-tions which were expected to be- a great deal worse by this time, and there Is nothing in particular In the future to bo upprehenslve about The above Is from the able pen of Judge C. C. Goodwin In Goodwin's Weekly. Tho theme reminds us of the saying of Shakespeare, "There's nothing good or bad but thinking makes It so." |