Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-11-18
PANICs.

Forthe amusement of lie readers o. the
HERALD. we publish the following ganieky
article from the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
the subjoined reply to il from the Com
moner, also a Democratic paper published
in Cincinnati Great men aud Democrats
diiroras regards cause and effect;
rHE RlsUlr OF THE PRETENDED ELECTION or
HAYIs.
Emly yesterday morning II was whis'
pere,lin business circles that the proprie-
tor OfOno of the largest manufacturing es'
tablishnents in this city had been eomipeli-
ed D. speenmb 10 tie pressure q the tunes
A few ardent friends made an effort for bis
relief by endeavoring to secure five thous'
and dollars each from twenty pers0ns, but
they found 1t impossible to accomplish any
thing like that result. We regret this ex'
ceedingly. 1t is another sad blow TO the
prosperity ofeincinnati, produced by the
policy inauguratsd by Grants administra-
ton and ratified by the fraudulent election
Of Hayes in this State--that Of curtailing
thecirculating medium ofthe country with
view tU speedy resumption ofspecie pay
ments. If the contraction continues, as
has been willed by the bUndholdeas, the
people of Cincinnati aud the surrounding
country may look for financial conyulsions
such as have hitherto been unknown to-
them Firm after firm will have to sue
cumb; business will be utterly prostrated;
none but the money loaners, bankers and
bondhodcrs will be able to meet their obi.
gations, and a general paralysis will be ex-
perienced bY the entire mechanical andag-
riculturAl portions 81 The country. This
result is to be brought about for the benefit
Of the bondholders and national bankers,
who have their paid emissaries in the press
and on the stump, and who will not he satis'
fed until they get one hundred cents in
gold for what cost them forty cents as mn
original investment We still hope the
people will open their eyes to the great enor-
nifty the crimes pcrpetrated through leg
islative enactment
We take the above from Wednesdays
Enquirer; indeed We need not to have nam
ed this paper, for the whole article has its
assinin0 ear mark We do not know who
is the manufacturer alluded to here, nor do
we youch for the truth ofhis having made
an assignment, but we will bet this Com
moners number against Sunday Enqui'
rer that he Inns for years run his business by |
political barometer, This has been his
great mistake. We remember such man
us long ago as l540, and he then believed
that what was wanted 10 make him pros
per was to elect Harrison. In 1874 he had
thesame hopes of Clay, in l94S, Of q. Tay'
lor; in / le52, OF Scott; iE 1866, olFreemont;
and so on down to last Spring when he
once More centered al his hopes on the
Southern Railroad. All this time this
supposed man has had but one enemy, and
that one was himself, His impctuosity
his incapacity to figure up the real cost Of
lis manufactures. his wastefulness in ev.
cry detail of his factory. mis- reeklessness
in giving credit his expensive employ
nent ofmen. and his bad mode OfpaymenL
50 that he always paid excessive wages,
al this has kept him weak. He was al
ways borrower, and kept looking for
money to politics, instead otto his creation
If the means which bring money.
The old Wing party always had him
or the tilcleadef in its panics, and he lock-
d like gorod OK though nobody was gor-
ng him. eIaI
The Enquirer editor, like an adept at
'anics, only lie makes bigger fool Of him !
elf than the old Wing party did, claims :
Init Hayes election was the cause of this
mana failure, and, Of course, he rings in
he bondholder, the banks, Grant, and any
nd all OF the hdrlequins of his brain t
which rush INTO his pen, as mountcbanks