Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-02-13
W,amt Erru,rhere--ns R1m1dn.

Want Ererysrhrc--Hs Remedy
Look in whatever direction we may
we find that in this country at the
present time the way of the people is
hard. North, East, South and West.
send through their newspapers word
that dcsti.ution is fastening its bonds
upon thousands who were formerly
enabled to live comfortably and con
tentedly. The distress among the
poor in one part of the West is typi-
fled by their condition in Cincinnati.
whore the station.houses are crowded
by homeless dodgers during the night,
and tho soup-houscs and other head
quarters Of charity, thronged during
the day. Minnesota puts forth a pitc-
Gus appeal for the relief Of its idle
working people, who are starving and
freezing, and who need immediate as
sistance. In Maine and New Hamp.
shire the factories are either shut or
running on short time the few that
remain open and in full work being as
nothing in sustaining the hordes of
applicants who throng about their
doors for the privilege Of getting their
daily bread by hard labor. We have
within day On two, quoted startling
examples Of The sutierings of the un-
employed in Connecticut. Massachu-
setts also fees the pressure heavily,
and her operatives are wandering
through the towns on barely living
incomes. In Bridgewater many of
the children are prevented from going
to school by lack of clothing. All
through Pennsylvania, particularly in
Pittsburgh and its vicinity, want tstares
the laborer boldly in the face, and the
laborer can meet it onl ly with the stony
look Of despair. Michigan and Wis
consin also present a frightful record
OF prevailing poverty among their
As to the South the grasp Of need.
as our readers have already been told. |
daily grows tighter and tighter upon
the people there, and / who can are
fleeing from within itsprecincts. Even
Northern poverty is plenty to some
Of the unfortunate whites of the Mill |
tary Monarchies. In our own State
and city thousands are without the
ordinary neoessaries of life, and heads
Of families are obliged to see their
wives and children hunger and 90 cold
because work cannot be obtained on
any terms
There is no exaggeration in these
statements; ifanything, they fall short
1f the bitter truth. Nor is il suppo.
'ltion merely that urges US to say that
here is but one prospect Of a change
or the bettcr--one road TO our former
channel through which
commerce, and trade, and manufac-
ures, now crushed and crippled, may
lgaln reach their respective flourish.
ng conditions. Every idle workman
hould at once employ himoolf 40 a
missionary, TO urge upon all
who may come within the sound of
lis voice, or the scope Of his influence,
he necessity Of depriving of power
he Jacobins who have seized upon the
government, through the seductive
I'D of "big bounties," destroyed our
ommerce, banished ourshipping from
he seas and loaded us with an unpar-
.lleled burthen of taxation, for the
upport of the lazy negro, and the
Of hordes Of white fanatics
Who hate the poor, and would exalt
shoddy aristocraey SO long as the
acobins rule, so long will they ruin.
'ower and plundoris their motto, and
over and plunder they will have, if ;
hey are not properly resisted, until,
erhaps, the figure of grass growing
d our streets, and weeds choking the T,
rays to our shipymds and factories,
'ill become realized. Those before !
those door the wolf stands unappoas
bic should work increasingly for the |
estoration OF that form of Democratic
overnment under which peace and !
lenty crowned every effort, our flag
'aSborne ovoi richly freighted vessels
} all the waters Of the earth, and the !
um Of happy industry was heard
Uninterrupted from Maine to Georgia. !
very man who deplorcs the frightful ,
of misery TO which we Z
ave referred, and who does not wish
see it augmented until it strikes at
very one not supported out of the !
nblic treasury, should work to kill =
ldicalism, the cause Of it all.-Neso
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