The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-06-18

Uo OSitSpo bllhL upllOIDty uILef
every war, the country which has
engaged in 1t has experienced re.
vulsions, stringencey in The money
market, and q general depression
in every department of productive
industry. Such were lhe results
at the close Of the Revolution, this
was repeated at tho close Of the
of 1872, and thisis is the result
of the late rebellion. But at the
close of the Revolution and the
war of 1912 there was u much
greater disposition ''to go to work"
than at present. The rebellion has
completely unsettled our Industrial
relations; towns and cities are be-
coming populous beyond prece.
dent tho rural districts proper
tionatoly depopulated, and crime
against both life and property
frightfully increasing.
The moral foundations ofsociety
appear to be seriously affected, and
alaxity. not only in proprieiy of
personal conduct, but a laxity in
the administration Of justice is rap
idly supervening. At no previous
period in the history OF the coun
try was il possible for criminals to
compound their violations of stat.
ute law by the use Of money, and
thus escape the penalty, as it is at
present.
The young men Of the present
day manifest great averseness to
being original producers; they
much more willingly engage in
commerce or traffic, become mid
dle-men or go-between producer
and consumer. Others rush into
the "professicns law, medicine,
theolgy; anything at all to avoid
the labor of original production.
And unless one has the statistics
at hand, it is difficult to believe TO
what great degree the laboring
population has been depleted.
Many young men who would
mako excellent farmers, and have,
perhaps, been reared on a farm,
are dragging out a life in cities,
void of happiness and void Of sue.
cess. Could they "muster mp suf-
ficient moral courage to turn their
backs on the glittering tinselry of
city life, and 60 back to the farm,
they, in all probability, will win
distinction; and if the enjoyment
fan Office of honor, trust andpro
fit is the height oi their ambition
(but very poor ambition tits af-'
ter all) they will bo much more
likely to attain it from the farm
than they will from the purlicus of
city "doggeries," from the count
ing room or from the professional
Office.
We have been led into this train
Of thought from many articles in
our exchanges bearing upon this
subject, but none SO closely and
pointodly written as the following
from the Becyrus Journal:
MONEY TIGHT.
Great complaint is made just
now about tighthess of money.
Each has his theory about it, and
every ono desperately in need OF
money and unable TO meet his en-.
gagements has theory of his own
as flush of facts as ho is of legal
tender.
During the past week we have
seen tons of hay bought by farmers
for their stock; corn bought by
those who planted acres last year,
to keep their stock until grass
comes in; -four being hauled to
farm. houses by gentlemen farmers
who "did not raise wheat enough
to do them," and they might add,
NOR anything else.'
If to-day produce buyer were
to open an Office here with a mil
lion of dollars with which to pur-
chase produce, at the highest rul-
ing rates, he would scarcely be call
cd upon to part with one per cent.
of it. For no one has anything
over which he can sell.
Our farmers appear to have
thought that acres were wealth,
and have constantly added acre to
acre and ran in debt for their land,
which has given them only half q
crop of produce but q full crop of
taxes.
Acres are only wealth as books
are knowledge, when you get it out
of them. Our farmers have sought
to add to their acres instead OF to
cultivate what they have. Instead
of seeking to get rich by hard
work, the idea has been to become
wealthy by speculation, and the
result is our farms never knew
money so tight before,
Let them tarn over Few leaf,
they can add to their farms in q
better way. Let them plow deep
or, drain systematically, improve
what they have, farm more and
speculate less and we shall not find
money so tight.
A man is not rich by tho meas
ure of what he owns, sbut by tbc
amount ofsurplus that he raises
to sell. He through whose hands
flow a-hundred thousand dollars a
year, but-who does not realize his
expenses by one thousand dollars
a year, is poorer than he whose
yearly outlay is but one thousand
dollars while he has a surplus OF
five hundred dollars after paying
his expenses. Yet the one is false
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