The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-09-19

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!: From the National Intelligencer.
l. \, S,.sosABLE REFLEcTIoNs.-Our eye
] | r,s caught by a sentence in the fol-
9, owingarticle which induced US to read
\ through; and we seriously declare
$. ,bat wehave seldom ever met with as
y, much sound truth and sober reason as
J. { contained in the space which it oc-
cnD;es. We trust that our readers
g vii not pass it by without deliberate
!. |lyr.ading and bordering upon it, and
I Especially upon the passages which
: ve have taken the liberty to italicise.
Each Of them might afford a theme
which might be enlarged upon to ad-
4 vantage, if common sense yet retain
Iedits wonted seat in the public mind:
% Fpn the Pittsburg Daily Advocate Of Aug. 10.
MONEY! MATTERS AND FARmERs.--
% There is likely to be general fall in
The prices Of every species of agricul-
Iual produce. This is rendered in
d lstable from two cause.-the album
d,nce Of the present years products,
! laathe scarcity Of money. The pres
are that for two years has been
Vsghing SO heavily upon, the mer-
Y aants and manufacturers of the
uuntry, is now, for the first time,
II reaching the agriculturalists. In 1887
! land 'ss, this country presented the
ANOMALY Of high prices Of the products
4 1athe soil, at the same time that there
aersted adistressing scarcity of money.
i lhwas a severe time upon consumers
lNta golden harvest to producers,
INV, however, the scale has turned
! hother way; and, although the PEG.
ihof the cities are still crushed un-
dsthe all pervading pressure in the
; inoney market, they are relieved from
lheexorbitant exactions imposed upon
J hem by monopolists of the first neces-
} lari.s Of life. The disease brought
4On the country by the reckless expert
. nsnts Of the late and present National
administrations, is extending itself to
temost numerous and important class
foar citizens-the Farmers-a class,
who, until now, have remained almost
pnscathed by the desolating scourge
a ruined and depraved currency,
and the breaking up Of the most per-
lect system of domestic ENHANCES the
world ever saw. They are at last
destined to feel that pressure of which
Aey have only heard; and as they
have been the last to experience that
sVh, it is fair to infer that they will
the last to find relief. Had they
leeded the warnings and entreaties of
ne merchants and others who stand
the ranks OF the community, and
who, from their position, are the first
perceive approaching danger, as
well as the first to experience the
taec1s OF the storm, they could easily
nave arrested the mad career Of
ae men who, under the promise of
better currency set every thing
eOat, WITHOUT the knopledge, skill, o.,
paosr 70 direct their courses; who, re-
CARELESS alike Of the teachings Of ex-
slence, or the dictates Of common
sse, undertook to tamper with what
. II, has shown they knew no.
alag about.
gar be it from us to exult over the
SpIe'sslon that is coming upon the
ts.aer. We know that when he suf-
~. wy he country is not in healthy
,s navy, and that, if any deserve pros
d. IAy It's he; yet we cannot but in
N.Y. sss sne hope that, since it has come
ny su nun, it will lead him to reflect
u.s. 49, eosely upon the series Of mea-
4, s's mat have brought such a coun-
,a n ! .'l!s to the very verge Of bank
cyii that It will induce him to give
H.. ,e t need to the experience of the
Ds.a alan !, 70 the crude dogmas Of the
onss sa' ay;;ato see that his steady
az 10y and that of his fellow citi-
WI ale Identified, and that the storm
nn.,s wrecks the merchant will soon
/. = s,;, later shake his citadel; and that
ae an. zee tie necessity Of sustaining
co,, seau system under vhich Mis
ID "A. az yaas tong prospered, and through
a,a. Iangement Of which it is now
doSa.n By the credit system we
baal;n,, mean 81 any particular system d
s1dsns, much less do we mean the
1uu reck less speculations Of 1886,