History of the Great Fires in Chicago And the West With a History of the Ris
History of the Great Fires in Chicago And the West With a History of the Ris
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If you do not press us, we can pay you, we hope, every dollar. If you do press us, you shall have what is left.
And the editor responded cordially, recognizing the situa- tion, and acknowledging the splendid fortitude and recuperative energy displayed in all our departments of enterprise and ser- vice : Those Chicagoans are people to be proud of they are essentially American. The indomitable pluck they show under their calamity, and the manly cheerfulness they display amid the wreck of worldly ...fortunes, are grand. They have as good a right to sit down and grieve as ever Caius Marius had to mourn over the ruins of Car thage. But there does not seem to be a Caius Marius in all Chi- cago. Nobody thinks of sitting down ; and as for grieving, they IN CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 507 haven't time. They are burned out, but they refuse to continue so. They are impoverished, but they won't stay poor. On all sides they are up and doing. The activity with which they are covering the blackened, smoking plain with fresh frame buildings ; the vigor with which they proceed to dig bank vaults from the hot ashes, and resume payments out of them before they are cool ; the philosophic composure with which laboring men go to put more money into the savings bank, instead of beginning a "run " on it ; the prompt decision with which the millioniare of yester- day, beggared to-day, resumes business by writing his name on a shingle and hanging it outside of his shanty; the resolute energy with which the wholesalse merchant, finding his store gone, opens his parlor windows and announces his readiness to retail goods there at the usual prices all these are illustrations of a spirit which no misfortune can appall.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If you do not press us, we can pay you, we hope, every dollar. If you do press us, you shall have what is left.
And the editor responded cordially, recognizing the situa- tion, and acknowledging the splendid fortitude and recuperative energy displayed in all our departments of enterprise and ser- vice : Those Chicagoans are people to be proud of they are essentially American. The indomitable pluck they show under their calamity, and the manly cheerfulness they display amid the wreck of worldly ...fortunes, are grand. They have as good a right to sit down and grieve as ever Caius Marius had to mourn over the ruins of Car thage. But there does not seem to be a Caius Marius in all Chi- cago. Nobody thinks of sitting down ; and as for grieving, they IN CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 507 haven't time. They are burned out, but they refuse to continue so. They are impoverished, but they won't stay poor. On all sides they are up and doing. The activity with which they are covering the blackened, smoking plain with fresh frame buildings ; the vigor with which they proceed to dig bank vaults from the hot ashes, and resume payments out of them before they are cool ; the philosophic composure with which laboring men go to put more money into the savings bank, instead of beginning a "run " on it ; the prompt decision with which the millioniare of yester- day, beggared to-day, resumes business by writing his name on a shingle and hanging it outside of his shanty; the resolute energy with which the wholesalse merchant, finding his store gone, opens his parlor windows and announces his readiness to retail goods there at the usual prices all these are illustrations of a spirit which no misfortune can appall.
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