Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-16

Injun empty; drink pile"
Then that meek and lowly Quaker
demonstrated with tear;
Spoke OF hre-water and ruin
Hence the independent press, having lost
the confidence of the people, was com
PEELED to submit to the general judgment
or antagonize it. For time it main.
tanned an attitude of stolid indifference,
contenting itself with sneers and sar-
casm; but as the shame and humiliation
of defeat wore away, it made choice and
hoisted the black flag. 1t poured its
walls of wrath upon all existing things;
first upon the National Administration as
the object of its most supreme hate; and
secondly, upon the people, because,
against its slandering protest, they had
recently given to the Republican party
an emphatic Endorsement. In the panic,
the Independent press, now become sa-
tanic, beheld source of coveted
revenge Hence it hastened to assume
that the country had long been on the
verge of ruin, and with ill.cOncealed NAL
ice, declared that universal bank
ruptcy must quickly ensue. 1t
quarreled with, and denounced, the Pres.
ident and Secretary of the Treasury at the
bare suggestion of the reissue of the $44,-
100000 reserve. 1t charged to the cur
rency the financial revulsion and conse-
quent disturbance to business, and heaped
contumely upon the Republican party as
the author of the national banking system
When it became apparent that the panic
would not accomplish all the disaster
which had been predicted, specie resump-
ton was demanded as the only cure for
ills that had already well nigh disappear
ed. Those who objected were assailed
with sneers, as "infationists, spectators,
ignoramuses, and debtors" The crusade
for specie resumption has been as bitter,
as wild and reckless, and as void of com
mon sense and common prudence as was
the heartless, malevolent, and unreason-
ing contest in favor of the fraud named
"Liberalism." The currency of the coun-
try has been pronounced an engraved
lie" and greenbacks sneered at as "dis-
honorcd promises to pay" With 2,000,-
100000 American debts held In Europe,
upon which interest must be paid in gold,
the Independent press noisily demands
"specie resumption" Possessing a cur
rency commanding the utmost confidence
of which it is not possible for the holder
to lose one per cent, the Independent
press cries, down with National Bank
notes; down with Greenbacks; let us have
gOld" Demonstrated a hundred times that
resumption is practically impossible and
that to attempt it is only to fail and involve
the whole country in financial ruin, still
the independent press cries: THE way to
resume is to resume"
Does anybody fail to perceive that these
frantic appeals are neither the mouthings
of ignorance nor the rawlings of insanity? :?
They are rather expressions of the insen-
safe rage of batfled politicians. The in
dependent press pronounced the Admins
tratiOn imbecile, but the people reinstGted
it in power. The independent press pro
nouced the Republican party corrupt and
decaying, but the people sustained it.
The Independent press declared the panic
the sure fOrerunner of universal bank
ruptcy, but it has already past away, and
business assumes all the appearance and
signs of prosperity. How long can the
independent press continue to stand while
its political and economic prophecies
come tumbling about its ears branded
false, fraudulent, uncurrcnt?" 1t is be-
cause of this sickening, humiliating series
of failures that the independent press
cries out Justify, "specie resumption ="
1t desires to score failure for the Re-
publican party, and, in the urgency of its
distress, it is willing to cast into the scale
the commercial integrity, the industrial
enterprises, every material interest of the
country, if it can for once make the great
political party of the nation kick the
bean, Hence it cries: "Up with gold /;
down with paper"
The incOherent demands of the specie
resumptionists are as violent and ill-cOn-
side red as was the first wild shout for the
election of Greeley and Brown to the
highest offices in the nation. The people
were taken by surprise aud hesitated, but
in that moment of hesitation Liberalism
was doomed, and hencetorth regarded as
a calamity. So in the case of the cry for
specie assumption. 1t was so violent,
and so aggressive in the outset, that there
was danger that the people would be
taken by storm and permit themselves to
be committed to an egregious blunder
But it is too late The storm has passed
and reason has resumed its sway. Not
one in ten of the forty millions of our
people believe it possible now to success
fully resume specie payments; not one
in five would resume specie payments
to-day if it were possible
Specie resumption may then be dropped
as a subject OF discussion, to be replaced
by the real question whether the currency
we have is of sufficient volume to meet
the wants of business. The verdict of the
country has been recorded in a thousand
ways in favor of the character of our pres.
ent currency, and there is a strong and in
creasing demand that its volume be en-
larged. Let Congress discard the very
idea of specie resumption, and address
itself to the practical business of so
amending the currency act as to put it
within the power Of the people to regulate
their money affairs with freedom equal
to that which they enjoy in all other com
mercial concerns. The people have i'm.
periously cried halt to the folly of specie
resumptionists, and it will not be long
before the demand for more currency
will be equally imperative. -OhicdgO In
er-OcedR,
Remedy for Sore Throat. Take one
large, red pepper, such as are grown for
family use; steep it in half pint of
water, after which strain in quart Of
molasses, adding little vinegar; boil all
together to thin sirup; use this WHEN
ever the throat feels dry or disagreeable;
il it be in the dead of night, it will soothe
the throat land not irrltate) and warm 1t
up well. If sharper than can be borne in
the mouth, put it back near the palate
with spoon and swallow; apply out
wardly thin slice Of salt pork, warming
il up we'll in little vinegar and pepper
apply as hot as can be borne on the
throat; fasten the bandage that holds the
pork over the head 10 draw the cold and
In Inflammation nm and not ahOut the neck