104 i*i:iai,s. -TiiK city. 



ThoH© danKtTous oloniPiits arc nr.u worUiii;^, riiid will 

 rf)nti!mr« to work, iri«-al('iilal)lc liaini ami loss in<»i-al, 

 iiih-lh'Ctlial, hociai. |H-ciiiiiai\ . I'.iit the sii|irciii(' jirril, 

 whicli u ill f«'rtainly conic imloss thcic is (oimd for exist 

 iiiK tcinlciicics some cfTi'ctual check, and must j>rol)ahly 

 Im' faccil l)y many iiou' livin^c, will arise, when, the condi 

 tions havin;< hccn fully prepared, some i:;vviii industrial 

 <ir oilier crisis j)rc( ipitates an open struj^glo between the 

 d«-striictivc» ami the conscrxative elements of RfX'ioty. 

 As civilization ad\ain-.-s, .umI society hcconics more 

 highly orvjani/cd, coniniercial transactions will he* more 

 complex and immense. As a result, all husincss relations 

 and industries will Itc nioi-e sensiti\t'. ( 'Miuiiicici.il dis 

 treSH in any f^reat business center will the more surely 

 create wid«' spread disjiwter. I ntlcr such conditioiiB, 

 industrial p.aralysis is likel\ to occui- from time to time, 

 more general and more jirost rat in^ t han any herj'tofore 

 known. When su< h a commercial crisis has (dosed fac 

 tories hy the ten thousand, and wa^eworkers have heeii 

 thrown out, of employment hy the million; when the 

 jiuhlic lands, whicdi hitlici-to at such times h:\vo alfordcil 

 relief, arc all exhausted ; w hen our urhaii jiopuLition has 

 he«'ii multiplied several fold, and our Cincinnatis ha\c 

 hecome (!hi<'a^os, our ('hica^os New Yorks, and our 

 New Yorkn Londons; when cIuhh antipathies are deep 

 efied ; whcii Socialistic organizations, armed and drilled, 

 lie in every city, and the ignorant and vicious power of 

 crow<h'<l po|)ulations has fully found itself; when the 

 corruption of city governments is j^rown apace; when 

 crops fail, or some ^^i^antic " corner " douhles the price 

 of bread; with starvation in the home; with idle work- 

 men gatherwl, sulleu and desperate, in the saloons; with 

 unprotected wealth at hand; with the tnMiiendous forces 

 of chemistry within easy reach; then, with the op} )nrfu 

 m'ff/, thr mntiiH, tin' Jit iKjcntH, tlir itiotirr, the tr)Hf)f(iti(>n 

 to drHtroy, (ill hrnu{fht into evil ronjiimtio)!, THKN will 

 coine the real test of our institutions, then will apjicar 

 wh(^ther wt? are capable of st'lf^overninent. 



