People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — The Disease in the System. [ARTICLE]

The Disease in the System.

Financial panics are not of sudden growth. They may burst suddenly on the public like a great storm out of a clear sky, but their causes have been gathering force and effect for many preceding years, even as the storm is the result of remote and perhaps far distant atmospheric conditions. They result from a violation of the natural laws of business, the neglect or abuse of which laws are as certain to bring disaster and ruin, as is the violation of physical laws to bring disease and death to the human body. The germs of typhoid are festering in the system for weeks before the fever and the delirium prostrates the strong man; and so the cause of the prevailing hard times must be sought not in the immediate present, but traced back to the time when prices began to fall, which is coincident with the act of 1873 by which silver was demonetized.—Denver News.