Nuhou, Volume I, Number 14, 3 February 1874 — Political Speculation [ARTICLE]

Political Speculation

Is all that we havc to discuss. \Vhat hope in thc couutry, or crifcerprisc ean we uiik about? To talk about iininigiation, eheap eapUal, abundanfc labor, the improvcmenfc of our harbor, inlemal' improvcment. hnd any increaseof people, money, j forcsts, ships, and prouuetion seems uselass. And! itis in vain at the prcsent day, and \vith fche picsent order of t!iings, to starfc any measure for « public good. |T4ie community has no unifcy of! epirit fco Iead fc{iem to co-opcrafcc. Eyerybody ig waiting for a cjiangc, and in fchc abscncc "6f a»v ' busmess, for fimes are liorribIy duli, all aw' occupicd \vith }iun*e or less of politicalspcculafcion. |