, 1840-08-08
CAUSES OF THE LOW PRICES OF
GRAIN.

1t is undoubtedly an exceedinly ingenious
device on the part Of the opposition, TO as
cribe the bad market for grain 10 the doing oil
the government at Washington; but we can
tell them a story worth two oil 1t.
There is in this city an aged lady, who
has seen more than ninety winters, AMI who
lives Almost entirely in the -ecollections of
the past. When she hears any Of the fire.
quent complaints which are made of the
hardness of the times, she invariably says:
'Ah! these are sad times To be sure; very
different times from those we had under good
king George. 1t is all owing to that rebel
George Washington" When she is told that
business is dull, or money scarce, she is al
ways ready with the moral" well you should
have remained under the rule of good king
George" When people tell her of failures
and bankruptcies, how banks stop payment.
how nobody discharges his debts, how the
price OF wheat at home will not pay for rails
ing 1t, she exclaims, at is just as | expected;
it all comes ~offollowing that wicked rebel
George Washington; the country will never
get right until it is again under the rule OF
England"
People smile at the old lady and remark
that she is in her second childhood, but what
excuse shall we make for those who,i in the
full possession of their faculties, and able to
observe the progress of events, yet give quite
as childish a reason for the low price of grain?
There is not an individual of all those who
nnput~ this low price to the doingsOf the ad-
HIuistration, that can tell what connection
there is between the two All they can say
is, that while 4 democratic administration
Aas in office, Il decline in the price of grain
took place. So did the great fire of Decem
Der, 1885; so did the hard winter of 1886.
We have heard ola Scotch humorist who
insisted on laying every thing that went
wrong to the change of the Union between
Scotland and England. Whenever he got
into any difficulty, he unidentified himself by
cursing the Scotch Union. When any trou-
BILE happened TO a2y Of his neighbors, he had
no other consolation for them than to tell
them that it was in some way owing TO the
union. Nay, If his kali hroo was no; well
seasoned, or his parriih burnt in the making,
or fan I'll done haggis appeared on his table,
it was odds but he would find some reason
for laying the blame upon the Union. These
are peculIarities by which an individ-
ual makes himself ridiculous. but what shall
we think of 4 whole party which gives itself
up TO similar absurdities! Either that they
are very insincere or very easy fooled or, as
is most likely, 4 mixed party OF both descriP-
tons.
That a lsrge amount of grain has been
produced in this country, that there Is no
sale for IT in foreign countries. that men who
speculated IN the commodity here. and col
lected il in vast stores. have been Obliged to
throw il into the market at a time when it
cannot be eXI orlcd TO any profit, these are
sufficient reasons To account for the extraor-
binary cheapness s! grain, without suppoS-
inc any mysterious or unexplainable connec-
ton between that cheapness and the &C: of
the federal government. When the cause
thus liesupon the surface, the PEOPLE, w think,
cannot mistake them. The wing party
presume upon the incapacity. stupidity and
creduli,y of the people. They treat them
as nurses treat childern. who when asked by
them IN the spring what has become of all
the snow. tell them that the little birds have
eaten il up. That way of accounting for
things may pass with children. but they who
tell the farmers of the United States that the
TALL in the price of grain is the doing Of the
administration, will find that it will not pass
with CROWN men.-EreaiRg Post.
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NEVER ASK QUESTIONS IN a HURRY. Tom.