The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-29
The Democracy to Sweep PenHsyl-
vania.


forms are blunderingly misshaped
and will not stand the test of dispas
sionate reflection nor Of national ex
perience. But they were made 70
October in Ohio, and for Noyembe
in Pennsylvania, and he reads TIL
signs of the time badly who does no
appreciate the considerations which
gave them birth. The most bounti
full country Of the world is smitter
by misrule and profigacy. Prosper
ity and luxury had been hand il
hand bearing their smiles from house
to house, as the unnatural stimulus
of war made frugality homeIy and
moderate savings unsatisfying. Elk
travagance ruled not only in power
but among the people, and as it en-
throned itself in high places, it sap
ped integrity and hushed the voice
of patriotism. With the returning
swing Of the pendulum, in obedience
to the memorable law that ayenges
every excess, the people bowed their
necks to its stroke. 1t should have
been. the signal for power to heed
their misfortune; to tighten their
burdens; to quicken their energies by
generous laws; to temper the decline
Of valnes by q financial policy that
would not ding needless embarrass-
ment upon them. 1t should have
been the signal fos national Jnomt,
for official simplicity .nd for the
most scrupulous guardianship Of the
nations revenues and productive in
terests. But as oppression came to
the people, extravaganza grew with
our law makers; and as emharrass-
ment and bankruptcy threw their
shadows over the country, our rulers
added shame to its ADVERTISEMENTS
by the most appalling stream of Off
cial corruption and waste. As the
compensation Of labor Unfinished,
and as enforced idleness and want
came to the heartIl Of industry, oil |
cial salaries were Increased, the taxes
wrung from the people were pIunder-
ed by thieves and wasted by incom |
petents, until distrust- and despair
have become widespread throughout !
the land. Harsh financial statutes. |
not in the interest of the productive I
of the country, but in the in /
terest Of the money lender, were en-,
acted to mock the calanlities OIL
trade, until money is withdrawn from
all legitimate channels of business, /
and the .iender is waiting in vain for
solvent borrowers. There is painful!
silence in our mills anA furnaces, and +
solitaje Ia She forests and mines ok
wealth, with which our people are
blessed. Our shops are the resting
places of the sluggard for want of
customers, our stores are languishing
for patrons, and our manufacturers
lAd producers make fruitless search9
for consumers. Tens Of thousands
Of willing hands are unemployed. aud +
she want that is felt by the house J.
hold gods of idle laborers is worse
Chan despair There is the paralysis
Of death throughout our industrial
classes, and they want capital multi
piled, confidence to be recreated, and
trade to start its thousand sinews
again. They see values diminished
Ind demand for their products DIES
5royed, and they want money. They
10 not dream of silver and gold
hey do not desire it. They want
factories to start, shops to open, mills
20 mum and furnaces and FORCES to
send up their fires, and money to pay
or their labor and buy it's products.
they know that when money was
plenty, when imitation ruled, they
we're employed, their wares had ready
and all classes were liber-
Il consumers; and now the logic Of
me prosperity of the past and the
Empty pockets and hungry stomachsI
u the present is an argument with
me masses Of the people that all the
'loquence and disputation of the age
'annot answer. A political Conven-
ion in Ohio, selling upon this con
lition of the public mind, echoed the i
public want by deliverance for in
latlon. 1t was denounced as the ac-
'ldent of the supremacy of political 5
rawlers; but one of the ablest Con-
entlons ever held in Pennsylvania,
tier desperate battle, declare. more f
han two to one for the same politi-
al panacea, and it is deliberately, >
ispassionately proclaimed If to g
ouch the popular chord, however out ,,
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