Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-09
WHERE LIES THE DISCON-
TENT.

IELNIs
An effort, says the Toledo Blade,
is being made to induce the belief
that there is in the public mind a
great lack of confidence in Gen.
Grants administration, That some
discomfort exists is true. But the
most important part of the inquiry
is in where lies the discomfort? =? What
classes does it pervade? The class
es most effected by d weak, ineffl-
cient or vacillating government are
the capitalists, merchants, manufac-
turers, men of large means and liber.
al investments in business liable, to
he deranged by any failure to keep
up the stability and good credit Of
the government. Are these the
classes from whom the cry of popu-
lar discomfort comes Not whim-
per of complaint comes from them.
The government c.edit is good-it
never was better-even when no bur-
dens of nation al debt rested upon us.
The currency is safe, of uniform
value throughout the country. Man
ufactures are fourishing and COM
merce reaping a golden harvest. No
discomfort exists among the solid
men Of this country.
Nor do we hear of any disco ntent
among the agriculturists of the coun-
try. BY the encouragement given
to manufactures, the industries of
the land have been equalized so that
there has been home demand for
all our products. The price OF land
has gone up steadily Notwithstanding
the enormous emigration westward
and the opening up of innumerable
farms in the once desert of that re-
region. AS class farmers have no
complaint against the government.
They sell their products for cash, and
when necessity requires they can buy
on credit. They have nothing to
complain of that the government can
be held responsible for.
Nor are the workingmen Of the
country discontented. No manu-
facturer. contractor or other en-
ployer is compelling them to take
truck and dicker in part or in whole
payfor their work. They arenot walk
ing the streets. nor rambling in the
country, begging "leave to toil'' of
men who do not need their labor.
We can remember q Presidential
campaign when vast multitudes of
men were glad to get "store-pay' for
the success of the party whose ban
ners promised "two dollars a dsy
and roast beef' to the workuen
whose children were gaunt and pale
because of meagre fare. To prom
ise men of skill and industry two
dollars day would not now mean
anything but reduction of wages.
Then, after twelve years of Demo
cratic pro- slavery administration, it
seemed like prophecy of the Mil
lenium, very beautiful but very i'm
probable, with its fulfllment very far
away. Laboring men are well housed
They are gaining homesteads. They
are educating their children as prin-
ces could not be three centuries ago.
We look in vain for causes of dis
content among those who naturally
have the most occasion for COM
plant
The Ardent advocates of justice,
education, and progress, those who
have the elevation of the race at
heart are not found complaining.
Men and women guiltless of crime
are not being hunted over mountains
and plains with bloodhounds. There
is neither war nor rumor of war. A
military chief, more successful than
any general of his age is steadfastly
pursuing the things which make fol
peace, The Indians could not hays
had their interest looked after by the
President no more carefully if John
Howard, William Wilberforce OF
John J. Gurney had occupied his
place The black people are no
complaining of Gen. Grant, but de
clare that they regard his admins
tration as "the North star Of thei
hope"
Where, then, lies the discomfort
Among professional politicians
Among restless, ambitious, place ant
power seeking msnagers and dema
gogues. There and no where else
The restlessness is among a class oi
men who have something to hop
for and nothing to lose by an.
change which may occur. Men lik
| Greeley, Schurz or Trumbull, VIII
have never found any administrator
or party sufficiently docile and sub
servient to suit them? When wa
Greeley ever satisfied with any part
with which he was ever associated
Except upon the single matter O
Protection was he not always re
preaching the old Wing party =? Wa
he not perpetually splitting upon
platforms and yielding reluctant SUP
port to candidates? Was he not al
ways Quarreling with his own part,