Western courier. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-05-04

starving poor are paying nine dollars per
barrel for flour because the Cleveland
Banks have loaned all their cash to mo-
nopolists 70 control the wheat, and flour
market-they must be still further op-
pressed, and Go usury and penanco to the
Lordly Bankers, by being compelled 10
borrow, from the banks, the money Of the
people themselves. Asif the people were
unsafe dcnositorics of their own money,
the Cleveland Bank is appointed conserv-
ator over them, to keep their property,
and dose ii out, rs in the wisdom Of the
Bank it is thought cxpedicnt.
If ever there was an instance Of self
dcgradation-a political suicide, Portage
County is that unfortunate INSTANCE she
now lies PROSTATE at the foot of the Cleve-
land Bankers, and that, too, by an act Of
self dcbasc mont. Had she fallen victim
to external force, she might have had the
consolation of exclaiming, 4 have fought
the good fight, / have kept my political
faith"--but she now lies PROSTATE, shorn
ofeven the honor Of falling in an honor
bic warfare. The surplus revenue of this
County, $73, 900 has now been added to
the means used by the banks to controlthe
country--and the people Of Portage Coun-
ty, instead being benefited by this boast
ed masterpiece of Wing policy, arc by it
made the scrrs and bondmen of the Glove
land Bank Norman C. Baldwin, now
rules uudlsputed arbtcr of the prosperity
of our County,! Does he please to cur
tail discounts--a scarcity Of money fol-
lows. Does he please to force in their
loans--distrcss ensucs. Does a citizen of
Portage want the use of part Of the
funds thus sent out Of the county--Mr.
Baldwin can direct him to some Cleve-
land Broker, who will loan him some cfit
at eight per cent Il month.
Thus while the officers Of the bank are
paying us six and half per cent for the
use Of the money, we are paying them,
through their Brokers from twenty-five to
sixty per cent for the use Of the same
money.
Had the money been equally distributed
through this county, in small loans, it
would have been equally socure--been
within the reach of every citizen-been
out of the reach of speculators and mo-
nopolists--would have relieved the wants
Of the county-have placed us out of ths
reach of bank oppression and brokers
shavings-and have been what some of
its friends designed it to bc--a blessing,
andnot what all Of its opponents havcpre-
dicted it would be--a curse. 1t is now
in the hands of shavers snd spectators,
to be used to enrich the rich and to op-
press The poor.
The golden bubble has burst, and the
people will find i; truly Wing bubble,
that glittered for while in the sunbeams
OF popularity, and then vanished forever.
We have watched its stages with anxiety
tho storm that raised it was the whirl-
wind of party-the light that gave it all
its glittoring hues was but the fcl:le glare
of the meteor that dazzles only TO. deceive.
But we had hoped it would prove q
harmless deception--and if, as in dream
of wealth, we found, on awaking, that
we were pennyless, we anticipated at least
the miserable consolation that it had ionc
us no harm. Here, too, we have been
deceived, for VIC not only find ourselves
ponnylcss, but learn, too late, that the
money we thought our OWNS in the hands
Of our enemy, who is thus rendered more
able to destroy us. VIATOR.
From the New York Evening Post.
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