Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-10-23

| HARD TINES Day after day W" hear
much said Oh thr streets and in the count
! ing room, az well ae in the comparatively
/ busy factory, about the hard times, - 1.-THE
! financial pressure, " the business panic"
! DC, &c These and a multitude Of other
! forms Of expression as many indeed as
! are the natural diversities of minds. and
/ as various az arc the common channels Of
/ trafiir-arc used t. describe, in some mea-
sure, ~hat is in reality but the natural
| consequence of the late war and its in
I evlable concomtants. But, anxious to
/ find some excuse for their own fpibles, and,
/ determined tn shift responsibilities from
/ their owB shoulders and TO remove them so
/ far away from their own door as possible,
many men charge all such Irregularities
or rather ,fGulGritics. bat only such un-
prepared for results Of natural laws-to
| some ;polica! phenomena and some govern
mental interirranrr which the political
! "yary t., Do,ger'' must always, in such
mems minds, b. solely and ,urely respon-
sible for Hence they ray there must ne a
/ change, 1t cau'i bg worse" &c, DC.
! Now let us uxaminc INTO these things for
moment.
( Every one seems ready to concede that
all these things are the natural and
legitimal" results ofcXtraYaGance in living,
in trade and in speculation. Such, at
least, seems the fixed opinion of many of
{ those who are loudcsti in their complaints,
! and who ale most severe in their dcnuucia-
I ton Of republican supremacy in our ma
! tionli legislature. OF course, we here
mean certain leaders and managers of the
! Democratic party, who use their sophisti
! cal. cl!uranmatiC sentences OF cnndemna-
: tion in the torlorn hope OF firing the hearts of
/ some well meaning bat uncritical Republi-
cans against their own party. But they
/ seem to forget that al these are only pri-
vate enterprises or individual acts, either
! OF men or of corpo:ations with which the
government cannot be- pretended to have
anything 90 do, and therefore the things
/ complained oG can not bc made the subject
! OF National or Of State legislation Who
would pretend, for example. that the
man who was living beyoud his income
who was receiving say go 90 per month,
! aud rhould expend 500 per month-can
| bc luQislltcd into habits of economy and
! thrift What manner of legislation would
that be And who would not cry out op-
precision. tyranny and the thousand and
one other Caustic denunCiatiOns ordinarily
used {" dcnomlnate unlawful intertercnces
! on the part Of the government, or the legis-
lative branch thereof with the inalienable
rights Of the private citizen And would
! it not be right 50 10 dcclaim And if
! that would be an unlawful interference on
the part of the legislative branch of the
government, to what other branch can it
any the more Justly or appropriately be
committed Vested anywhere else, it
would be equally oppressive. And if it
would be wrong and oppressive for the
government to interfere in the instance
suggested, how can it be any the less so in
any and all the instances complained of?
/ Who viii undertake to say that ertrdud-
gTace or economy in trade aud in speCula-
/ ton is any more the proper subject Of leg
I islation than we have shown that Of lgny
/ 70 he ? Who would not declaim 10 the rocks