Hard Times, And What Causes Them

Wc aro fust becomiiiganaf ion ofsoheincis (o Hvi' without genuino woik. Our boys are not learning trades; ov t'avmcis' sous are orowding into oities, lookiag for olerkebips and postoffices ; hardly one American girlin eaoh hundred will do housework ter wages, however urgent her Deed; so wc ure sending toEuropefor workmen, and buying of her artisans millions' worth of proctucts that wo ouglit to make f 6r ourselves. Though our erop 'als is heavy, we do not grow our o-.vu homp; fchough we are overrun with who deaerve flagellation, we import our willowa. Our women (unlesi deoeivod) abiue in European fabrica; our men dress in foreign olothes; tho toys wliich amuse our youngor obildren have generalij reaohed us over the sea. We are likc the farmer who hiree big noighbors' Bons to out wood, feed his stock, and run his errands, wliilc his owu boys lounge at tho grog shop, playing billiarda, and then wonaere why, iii spite of his best eiForU, lio sinks annuaUy deopcr and deeper into dubt, till the shoriiï cleans him out, and he starts West to begin agaiu. Wo must tam over a nfiw leaf. Our boya and girls must 1' taught to love labor bv qualit') inr themeelea to li Lteffioiently. Wo must turn out fower prpfeB sionals and mors skilled artisans, as wsll iis food-groyers. We mtist grow and fabrícate two hundred millions' worth por annum that. we now import, ar.d so reduoo tho foreign debt that wo haro so succossfully augmented year by yéar We must qualïfy our clover boys ter crect and iun faetones, fnrnaces, rolling niills, tanneries, machine shops, etc, ta open and work mines, improve and fasbicirt implements, and doublé tlio products of tho futher'a faim. Sa shall we stom tho tido of debt that sets steadily against our ■hortd, und cease to be annoyed by hard Unies.- tíw.hawje.