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Our other indebtedness, we may say, will cause us no inconvenience, as 
we have the money to pay it. Our capital now is bona fide money. Our 
legitimate bank paper is founded upon facts, and our bankers would 
almost as soon issue gold dollars, as paper ones of their own. 
One great cause of the present safe state of things is, that the golden, 
streams of California, Australia, and other places, are pouring their 
swollen torrents into the world’s treasury , and thereby adding untold 
amounts of real capital to the already ponderous mass of wealth ; and 
the rapid expansion of business, and the great railroad impulse, are but 
natural effects growing out of the circumstance that capital is accumulat¬ 
ing and must be used, to render it of any value. 
Another, and perhaps more important cause upon which we rely for the 
safety and perpetuity of our present and future prosperity is, that the 
present is an industrious, toiling, working age. Men have thrown sloth 
and idleness to the winds and adopted the adage that “ God helps those 
who help themselves.” They have gone to work with a will. We are 
just beginning to realize some of the good results, but a tithe of them is 
not yet developed. Labor creates capital, and capital in turn demands 
more labor. Thus labor and capital go hand in hand, each aiding the 
other, and together working for the common weal. 
Without labor nothing can be accomplished. It is a pre-requisite of 
well-being—the sine qua non of health, wealth and happiness. True pro¬ 
gress does not consist in obviating the necessity of labor, but in changing, 
by means of improvement in the arts, its character, and rendering it 
more conducive to the supply of the wants and comforts of man, and to 
the development of his mental and moral nature. 
So long as the present causes continue their operation, we need not 
apprehend danger of any considerable change. Our prosperity is not 
fictitious. The age has received its momentum and will not be liable to 
stop at once. The question for us, farmers of Wisconsin—farmers of 
Bock county in particular—to settle is, what course shall we pursue to 
avail ourselves of the largest advantages to be derived from the antici¬ 
pated “good time coming,” when our railroads and other improve¬ 
ments are completed ? We answer get ready for good times. Have plenty 
to sell — again we say, get ready for good times ; for times have been 
so bad heretofore, that we are altogether unprepared for good ones. 
