The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-16
Letter from Ohio.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, !
October 18th, 1873. {
DEAR ADVOCATES:

over by the time this reaches you, and
the good quiet folks all over the land
can have a season of rest, and release
from this everlasting bore of politics
which is the nsaius,ay of the average
American, and, at the same time his
bane. What would he do without his
regular dish of political hash, served up
in all seasons. and reekiDg with filth
and scandal and trickery of the other
party. Pleasant associations broken,
friends. estranged and memories embit-
tered, the result Of Our insane mania
for political excitement, constitute about
the sum total we attain, in the present
mode Of electioneering aud electing. 1t
is not my place, perhaps, to attempt
lecture. Political hoinietics are not my
forte, and il they were, I'm too much
disgusted, just ct present, to ascend the
pulpit: I've just left q political meeting
at Mozart Hall, aud perhaps tbot may
account for my present frame Of mind. |
won't intimate which party was holding
lovefeast. They are all tarred with
the same dirty stick, and the slang flung
at the Democrats is pretty generally re-
paid in kind. Perhaps it's just as we'll.
BY and by the people will begin to re-
alize the great necessity for their tax
ing an active part in affaiIs which con-
cern themselves and the future but
they will need a great many terrible re-
miuders, before they rise in their
strength, and, cleaning out the 6lth of
the political stables, at the same time do
away with the leeches and vampires eat
ing out their substance, and crushing
out their manhood, whether they crawl
under the name Of Credit Mobiler asso-
Citations, Salary grabbers, Custom House
or Court House Rings. When the peo-
pie do this, and refuse to be led round
by the nose by any man or set Of men,
the country-at large will be the better
for it. Not until then. For the pres
emf, thank. goodness-the politicians
tent is folded, aud all over the land be
is silently stealing away,-which is true
in double sense-I'm not blood thirsty
but am about ready to consent that the
Royal North American Republican,
found only within the limits of the
States-should be led outside and very
carefully slaughtered.
THE PANIC
Still shakes its grim visaged front at
us, and when the end will come and
what it will be no one can loretell. On
'change the announcement is daily made
that the financial outlook is growing
brighter; and so far as this assertion
goes, the same outlook by this time
should be too bright to look upon.
While our Banks are paying out, as
usual, to their depositors, the ugly fact
stares US in the face that the great man.
ufacturing establishments of the city,
are either closing entirely or running on
half time. A great many thoughtful
people here, look on this panic simply
as the foreruuher of the storm. There
has been so much extravagance-I am
not now speaking as partizan-in the
National, State, County and Municipal
governments ; so much wild speculation
in stocks, SO great extravaganza, especi-
ally on the part Of women, in our do
mestic economy,that day of reckoning,
I think, must surely and speedily come.
Nations are but men Of larger growth,
and in their political economy should be
guided by the rules which in his domes-
tic economy gives the individual
healthy prosperity. One good effect of
this panic, will undoubtedly, be the
death-blow to fancy stock dealings.
THE MELANCHOLY DAYS
have come, so far az regards any news
items which might be of interest. Prac-
tically the election is over. The un-
wonted crowds on Vine Street, to-day,
Sunday in tie neighborhood of the
Enquirer office, and like gathering on