Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-01-17


manage steam engine-"wha says he
iii can manage livin critters can't | man.
age cranks and pumps and piston rods ~
So he tries it--well, what then ? the next
thin we hear is a SMASH and bloic mp. The
great man, howsever won't allow folks TO
say it was owing TO his ignorance-no, no,
that would never do So he and his party
turn TO and 10 prone that the fault was in the
engine, tho every body knew that engine
had been working smoothly for many years,
and not crack about it-but they stick TO
IT. and every sou Of gun on EN- insist ont
that sich kind Of engines never are safe, and
they mnst have more simple machines
u to prove this they all set TO work-iakinp
advantage OF every chance 10 uDscrew a
salve--drop stones in the pumps and throw
sand on the piston rods when an acct.
dent comes--then you hear EN-, There is
the great bubble bursl'--"We told YOU sou
Nov is the time to put down all steam
engine" --"now the people must see il is
high time 10 divorce" and so forth They
first git all the owners ofihe little engines to
Join EN- IN blowing up an smashing the
big one, and then ungrateful las sometimes
think. and then a2in think il is but com.
mon Jnsilce) turn round and try to blow up
all the little ones. This would be all well
enuf and I'd let 'em fight il out ifthe hot wa.
ter was kept among themselves but there is
something due to the honest and quiet pass
engers-men, women, and children, who
have travelled along by steam for years in
safety, and are now told they must go back
TO The golden age, & do as folks do other
countries, and as they have done since the
days Of Moses, and will continue TO do 10 the
end oftme--paddle their own canoes o, 90
afoot.
A good many steam boats have blown up,
and good many folks have go. scaded
since steam has been in use but are we
ready 10 say "down with steam"--not vet [
guess-because folks who keep run of
those matters know that more lives have
been lost by sails than By stcam; and ten
thousand times more folks go by steam than
could by sails The extra work that steam
does beyond all the power that folks in other
ccnntries can do who don't know any thing
about it, is just about equal to he extra
work that credit does beyond what folks
can do in countries where they don't
know what credit is. Sometimes credit
blows up; but are we ready 10 say there
must be no credii-no confidence betwiSt
man, and man2 We know that steam can
be made safe and we all know credit can
be made safe; and if a bladder-head blows up
n steam engine. or a rosae abuses credit, is
that a good reason for abandoning both
steam and credit Can't we measure the
good that has and can again be done BY
them whilst we are measuring the erH p
Let us figure up the account fairly and see
how the balance stands.
| sometimes think, Mr. Moderator, if we
don't look oul sharp. that all our good Re-
publican Democrats are going TO be led in.
10 a scrape, BY some folks who say they are
tale up and down, thick and thin Democrats
and purer Democrats than the world ever
hearn tell on afore-& by this very plan now
on foot of knocking down all credit & going
on the hard money plan entirely. They tell
us that hard money is tie only Democratic
money and that credit is an invention of The
old federal aristocrats.-and il it aint pu,
down, the old sound Democratic party will
all go TO the bugs. Now what is the fac, |?
Ifthere was any Democrats. and good sound
ones TOO, in the country about 25 years ago
what did they say then 2-and they had il
all their own way TO do and say as they
thought best.
There had ben Bank OF u S. few
years before. and its charter had run on, and
it was wound up, aud in its place lot of
State Banks had sprung up, and prilty much
every man had set up his own shinplaster
shop The people was glten more and
more disguised, and jisl looking round 10
cure the evil,-for SIGH evils have natl
cures though one cue ain: quite as Demo
cratic as another Some few folks who had
money were jst going ahead over them who
was blowing up, and supplying good paper
money Of their own making, and by fixing
agencies at different pints, list as they do
all through Europe, taking care as they do
there, TO keep their own iron chests 10 hold
the gold taken in exchange Tor their cred
ii,-and never trusting any one on their in.
duslry and good morals or MS readily rs they
do men who have good gold properly for Sc
curity--and ifthe Democratic Party Of that
day hadn't seen the DRIFT Of things-or if
they acted then as the party calling itself
Democratic now act--what would have been
the condition of thiags2 Why simply this.
We should have a few old Rolhchilds-
Hotingeurs and Hopcs--al everlasting
rich Bunkers-grows fat by the use of their
Credit besides good many who have
been blown up-but they holding the gold
whilst the People hold the Bils-But the
Democratic notion Of the day didn't think
this exactly the thing for republican peo-
ple-they knew the people couldn't get on
without using credit. and that thew yvouId