Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1859-09-23
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Bantering with Bankruptcy.

Il IS not doubted that prodigous amount Of
brandy may be pat Inside of mans skin..--
Rowdies and shoulder hitteFs have occasionally
varied theis recreative bclligerencies By wa ayers
I to settle the quantum. II bas been proved in
CouTt-at least it hes there been sworn to-
that man may swa,log sixty piuts Of lager beer
10 day, aud yet live. Those who havo wag-
cred Oh the brandy generally died of it, i
sartels Of anything, however, good may produce
deata ineontlneutly. In such case il is not the
| thing tnat kills, bat the satfeit. Horne Tooke,
IN tho days Of JGuius, being suspected Of the
authorship Of those pungent missiyes, vas ask
ed how laaeh treason lnan could write with
our beiag Aaageds 10 which BE replied that he
vas just then irving. |, would seem from thus
recital Of humau tomeritics ibat there is no RASH
ness too great to be indulgod in. Christophe,
the black Emperor OF Hayti, used TO say that
It Ae Toro 70 place Z bag Of coffee n the jaws
OF heii, Yankee would quickly be found 10 90
after It. People crowd to witness Blondin cross
Niagara on q tight rope because tdey have .
sneaking expectation that they may zee him
break bis Eeck. Like those who wager on tue
brandy, the chances arc that be will keep on
till he does 50.
Il strikes US That the people Of this country
arc all wagering with each other to SEQ how
great al amount Of foreign iron, cloth, and silk
ana lneFy they can import aud use up without
breaking. Wagering of this kiod is not BY any
neaus a Few thing with them. They did
aTgeiy just after she peace Of 1915, and it burst
their boilers so hopelassiy that oae half Of then
never recovered from the explosion. The war
buils up our cotton manufacture to home con-
sumption Of ono bale Tor every four that were
grown, while the B0olea manufacture at that
carly day employed no less than 3I2,00o,Q00
OF capital, and farmers had domestic market
for food better than they had ever had. Shut
ting out foreign goods sent -four Up to an aver
ase OF IS. and pork TO one Of $l5 during tac
Whole war. Peace came, and while il opened
nominal markets abroad for orr food, 1t destroy
ca ghe real oae 1T hOlae created bg nlAuus4c~
turos, By flooding Us with toFeiga FABRICS. On
the heel OF this delugo came tic Aet Of 1918,
which repealed the iittic protection 5dat rcaaia-
Cd, aud Free Trade became rampant. na-
tionai bankruptcy was tse result. Labor eeas-
od to be 10 demand, bceaeso the manufactures
were ruiIed; wheat sunk 10 81 cents, aud in
many parts OF the country TO 70 cents per BUSH
el, while -four won't dowH TO 81 25 per basrei.
The farmers 10 their turn were ruined By thoa-
sands. Ihey had f0olisaly coDsenbed g give
Up home market Tor 2 foreign one, the price
Of the exchange being the ruin Of the mann-
faot1TeTa, a. Il the former could live alter TIC
latter had been destroyed. The country Of
couse lost is ability to eonsutne tho goods
which had made it bankrupt, aud &c imports
sunk ft9m ninety millions 10 dfty millions. The
country vas cleaned oUt OF its specie, Baak
fy~ r--ap coo ,.tI No.
where.
In most @agera, somebody secures an advaD-
tage; but IN this national Que everybody made
loss. We therefore quit wagering, after try
ing its virtue some six years, as it vas found
that cotton at eents, pork and beef at IS =
barrel, and hams at cents, didn't pay. Farm
ers eoultn't pay their debts al these prices,
just as many Of them are unable TO do it now.
they rose up aud required that the labor OF the
nafion--not the mcre employers Bho owned
forges and factories, but tau lnaD who did the
work in them shoald be protected from this
deluge Of foreign fabrics. This was in 1924.
! The country irnmedia.aiy e2rang forward on a
career of high prosperity. The labor of the
natioa, being fully employed and we'll paid,
was again able to CONSUME whatever the farmer
/ produced, and he found prices to 5e constantly
going up. Lana rose even above its former
value, and this rise, added TO the annual profit
OF the crops, cleared OFF thousands of debts III
every State. But the old leapen of wagering
70 see now much foreign stulFs we coald use up
without breaking, returned on US in fall force
at tue end Of ten years we had had good
tiiaes long enough Money flowed in upon US
from abroad, ,ho aa,son vas ou: Of debt, eve