Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-03-22

erS to follow our example in this respect.
And finally, Mr.. Editor, all we ask aHd
desire is 70 be let alone, and we will try
and take care Of ourselves.
A SUFFERER.
SEED.TTME AND HARVEST.
From then. Y. Tribune.
A year hence, or soon thereafter, our
country will be stirred by the fist
thrOes of a Presidential CANVASS
ThencefOrth, there will be riding and
running, gathering and speaking,
covering stumps with orators and
filling bread-trays with documents,
preparatory to the great struggle. We
shall have the most equal contest that
the country has known since lS44.-
At each election since 1856, the Demo
Gratis have thrown away any chance
of success they may have had-first,
by splitting their party and running
two tickets in 1850; by ruinOus plat
form and a most incOngTOus ticket in
1854; lastly, by nearly as bad a plat
form and a rather worse ticket in
I 1868. We assume the essential i'm
probability of their repeating this
suicidal folly in 1872. They will not
undertake to upset the Reconstruc.
ton policy; they will not proclaim
their intention to disfranchise the
blacks; they will not propose to pay
the national debt in greenbacks, thus
arbitrarily substituting a promise that
bears no interest and is payable at no
particular time for one that bears six
per cent. interest and is payable with
in twenty years. In short, we assume
I Mill Sol,
and not insist on running their head
against a wall to demonstrate their
destitutiOn of brains. Had they done
/ this in go, they must have triumph
ed; had they done it in '64 or '6S, they
would have given US a very close and
/ doubtful contest. We assume that
they are hungry enough, chaKtened
enough by the lessons OF adversely,
/ not to attempt to drive their wedge
/ big end foremost again. And, if they
are only wise as serpents, they need
not be harmless as doves to give us all
we can do in 1872.
We urge, then, upon active, earn
est Republicans in every State. and
neighbOrhOod to prepare for the strug-
| gle just before US by getting Repub-
| lican newspaper into every family
] WlAEIE IL Will IEEElNEu anu
Push your county or village paper in
case it is cheap and well conducted,
/ but some good Republican paper at
any rate. If the head of the family
will subscribe and pay for it, so much
I the better; but if not, and he will ac-
cept and read it, send it to him, any
/ how. A million dollars spent in thus
1 letting light into households that
I would otherwise be dark will never
/ be felt by those who in small sums
give it. while it will probably make
/ the difference between success and
defeat in the great impending strug-
gle. & Il
Political intelligence is disseminat-
ed and political bias given through
/ two main channels-the newspaper
and the grogshOp. The latter is
against us and cannot be changed
Ninety-nine of every hundred bar
/ rooms and drinking saloons are in
I tensely, efficiently Democratic-Or, as
/ Mike Walsh proclaimed them, "nur-
! series of Democracy A township
or village which is without one of
these nurseries, either within its
bounds or conveniently near them, is
morally certain to. be Republican
while one which is cursed with an
overplus of tipling-houses is almost
uniformly against US. We cannot
I change this; we can only counteract
! it. Let us spend one dollar in circu-
lating good newspapers where our ad-
versaries squander ten in their drunk
ard manufactures, and we cannot be
beaten.
But it will not do to wait till the eve
of the Presidential Election. The
enemy is sowing tares at this hour
Every youth who is learning to sip
and soak in the grogshops is being
fashioned TO the use of Sham Demo-
eracy. His virtuOus parents may
think otherwise-may be ignorant of
his haunts and his habits; but, if he is
learning to love liquor and loose COM
pany, he is being fashioned to the
ends of the adversary. Hence the
/ Democratic mangers and OTacles al
most uniformly hate and revile the
! Temperance Reform, even when per-
sonally temperate. They know that
its triumph is their damage and proba-
ole defeat. There is not a State in the
Union wherein the Democratic party
is not conspicuOusly hostile to what
ever legislation tends to diminish the
number Of its grogshOps.
In almost any township out of New
England, fully one-thiTd of the fami-
lies will be found, on inquiry, to take
no general newspaper. Some of them
may have a "stOry papern or cheap
picture sheet; but the majority have
no periodical at all. Most Of these
obtain what little they know of poll
tics from the gzOgshOp, where it is
twisted and eolOred by COppeFhead
malignity and hate. OF course, the
votes cast from households so unin-
formed and misinfOTmed are mainly
cast against us.
1t need not be so. A quiet meeting
of earnest Republicans in almost any
township would provide the means Of
putting a Republican journal into
4 each family where 1t would be well
| coined. Some would subscribe and
pay for it if asked by an esteemed
neighbor: others would take il as
gift and regularly read it. One hund-
| red dollars spent in supplying the des-
titute with weekly food for thought
would make more Republican votes
than 81 600 spent in electioneering
after July, 1872.
Friends in every State and county
think of these things! The township
which takes good care of itself first,
I NAV thereupOn commend with good
effect its example to its neighbOrs.-
There is a mighty work to be done,
! and It is high time to commence it
Let each do his own part promptly,
and then call on others to initiate his
example, and improve upon it.
A fire company in Auburn, y. Y,
/ has instituted a very sensible innova-
ton in conducting funerals. Instead