The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-11-25
TLe Fnrmer. ana ll,e crlsI..

HE Farmers and the Crisis.
The New York Tribune and the Cincinnati
Gazette, have been publishing articles charging
the great responsibility of the present crisis up
on the farmers Of the country! A more base and
ungrateful charge could not have been made
For years, through the agency Of the banks the
farmers have been robbed Of the profits Of their
produce, BY lending their money to large mo-
nopOlizers and spectators, who buy It all at low
prices, and when having all control Of the mar
ket make the mechanic and labOrer pay just
what they choose to demand.
The Wool Growers Reporter, published at
Cleveland, has the following excellent rebuke
to Greedy and his followers:
Know ThyseIE
It seems very strange that so ably conducted
a paper as the New York Tribune should be so
grossly blind as to charge upon the country the
cause ofall the fnanciA difficulties under which
we are now reeling.
Under date Of October Is, that paper states:
"T hose Oho hare really uiled, and ,close failure
has inVol0si nsarly all others, are the farmers,
mechanics, laborers and spectators, or iderS Of
the interior"
For widely circulated paper, like the Trib-
une to hold such language. to say the least
shows a great want of candor. Located, as it is
in the great sink hole ofimpurty, such being
the language ofthe press of New York, we do
not wonder there is no power to cleanse and pu-
rify the most polluted spot in the United States
ncth.r is it strange that we are staggering un-
der commercial disease whose poison is pen
iatr hn WI artarto- nf
ten.
Who cannot see that the commercial heart is
full Of corruption, and is steadily, but surely
poisoning the commercial arteries ofthiS nation.
Were We to apply the knife and lay bare the
commercial difficulties, we should commence in
New York, and we Should find that that city
does more than all the other cities ofthc Union
at sowing the seed of extravagance, stimulating
spectators IN real estate north, south, and es-
pecialIy west and encouraging Railroad enter
priseS Of no merit. The daily transactions in
the New York Exchange. or in Wall street, are
enough to shock the sensibilitieS ofany Western
farmers or mechanic. To show our farmers the
manner in which business is done there, would
strike them with amazement. The New York
Exchange is one grand institution, where gam
bling is legllized, and not far from it the most
deprayed passions ofmen find qualification.
Go into the business places Of that city, from
highest to lowest, and become familiar with the
habits and practices of her business men, and
YOU will see that no farmer would be willing
his son should imbibe their corruption and sci ,
fishness.
Clerks are taught to transact business on the
most selfish principles so that it becomes a law
oftheir nature to take the advantage of their
neighbor and il one dollar can be obtained with.
out giving an equivalent, that man is regarded in
the light Of a sharp financer, who can, in this
wav, accumulate the largest sum.
The embszzlements that are of daily occur-
renee are the natural fruits of this training to
say nothing Of the Immortality extravaganza in
living, expensive women, and dissipation which
characterize that city, are sufficient, in them
selves, to bankrupt any people
Nearly all their business in characterized by
extremes. A class called runners travel through
the country without sufficient perceptive facul-
ties to approve of credits, urging goods on those
OF the same character with themselves, and who
arc entirely unworthy of credit. By this blind
policy of forcing goods on irresponsible parties
at the West losses are sustained, which, added
to our 50, ,000000 the cost of keeping up this
worthless class, makes a very large sum for the
hard working farmers and Mechanics of our in
terror to pay. This, too only embraces the dry
goods and grocery trades.
All such expences could and should be, dis
pensed with; for, be remembered, the unne-
cessary expense in conveying goods to the Gus
toners, must be born and paid by the consul
mers themselves.
Mr.. Tribune understands this full well, and
whilst we are in lustriousiy employed at legit-
innate calling producing with our own hands it
comes with bad grace to be told that we at the
West have been the causes of this financial pan
ic. It's from these very farmers and mechan
les that the great metropolis, with all its cxtray
agances derives its support
1t is very true that importatiors, and West
ern land spe e:ulations have deprived the country
of funds necessary to carry on, with profit, its
industrial pursuits; but New York has been the
centre from which has emanated most of these
speculations.
1t is to be hoped that the black republican
farmers, mechanics, laborers and spectators Of
Harrison county will be very eager to subscribe
for Greeley's Tribune, when Mr.. Kinsey, the
leading laborer for black republicanism in this
county, calls on them, after reading the nice in,
suit their friend Greely gives them in the above
extract from his paper. They ought certainly
to subscribe after that.