The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-08-17
It is Beautiful-but mark the
Contrast.

more beautifully expressed, for long time
than the following; There is poetry and
true genial feeling in it:
Saturday night! How the hear. of the
weary man reiolces, as with his weeks wa
ges in his pockets, he HES home TO gather
bis little ones around him and draw consola-
ton from his hearth stone, for the many
hard hours he has to lead to win lis pi'tance,
Saturday night! How the poor woman
sighs for relief as she realizes that again
Col hes sent her time fer rest; and though
her rewards have been small, yet Is she
content to live no, for even her heart builds
up in the future, house where It's always
evcl How the care Worn man Of business
relaxes his brow and closing his shop saun-
ters deliberately arounu to gather up lit
lie gossip ere he goes quickly home TO take
a rest"
Now thisis all very beautiful indeed; and
if it is never marred by the mistonunes
that sometime overtake people, it would be
very well. But what must that poor mans
feelings be, when he visits the market or,
the grocery to provide for those'litte ones, >"
and be is told that his little "pittance"
which he has "toilel SO many hard hours
to win" is good for nothing. After he re-
paired to his home and retired to rest, the
bankers whose notes he Lell, had met in
their dark room, and concluced it was not
best toTedeem any more of their notes, and
had pronounced the bank as bursted; or to
use a more polite and business term had
suspended. He uDlolIs them one dollar at
Il time, and for instance one is Granville,
another Urbana, another Wooster, and then
comes the eaSterBJau2S which is aJ0pe par!
Kellingsy comes next, and others OF like
kind; but all is a like; all will not purchase
the wherewiJh to feed and clothc those 'Hittle
ones" ior whose support he has "toiled 50
many hard hours" and his "weeks wages
in his pocket" had better remained with the
employer. No that is not right; the "God'
that sent that ''poor woman time to rest, -
metal our government has made money that
woul not have rotted in that poor man S
pocket during Sunday, aud that is what he
should have received for his "harl hours of
toll" But no, the money changers whose
tables Christ upset in lhe temple have inge-
niously managed to make people believe
that such stuE was too heagy for them to
carry, and they had better let them lock it
up in their vaults and issue in its stead
their Promssory mates, which was to be a
safe, &o@:d, and convenient currency; al
ways redeemabIe in gold and silver, at the
court ter antl tile danberS concluded not to
DO IT..
Aud how much more deep would that
''poor woman sighed" when her small rer
wards for her weeks labor is reduced to
nothing by the ingenious 1inanciering Of
these public bonelacturers
Then let the "care worn man of business"
when he returns to his shop on Monday
morning, and examine among the rags that
till the drawer, if he'has been so unucky
as to have done a large cash business on
Saturday, and sec how much of his profits
mas vanished into the air on Sunday when
he was at church or perhaps coming over
the "littc gossip" which he gathered up on
Saturday night before he retired to his
home. Perhaps he may take it to the
ncighboring bank to dcposit,ssas is his Gus
tom, but the wary banker knew the value
of his money before he did, ard of course
refuses it as uncument.
This is the other side of The beautiful
picture drawn by the "Sandushy Register, -
and thousands OF martyrs to the system
will attest, thatit is DO fancy sketch, but Of
real life; and yet We poor talerant souls per-
NIT it to go on, and see the toiling millions
OF this nation fleeced of millions of their
hard earnings, to sustain "Safe sound and
solvent system Of banking" which issues
their debts as currency, because it is GghI
in the pocket and convenient to handle,--
There is perhaps, nothing in our govern
ment, which is so detrimental to interests
ard prosperity Of the people that is tolerated
to such an extent, as the banking system
as it is now and has been carried on for
years in this country. When will the peo-
pie arise in their majesty and over throw
the tables Of the money changers?- O. s.
Deuaoc1 al.
Rg"Tho Richmond Va. Wing proposes