Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-10-06
COL. MCCLURE ON THE ERIE
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CONVENTION. HnH
No journal has so ably discussed the
result at Erie, as the Philadelphia
Times. In one of Col. McClure's able
articles, found below, he expresses our
ideas far better than we can and we
give our readers the benefit Of the fol.
lowing extracts, for which we ask an
attentive pcrusal;
"rhe world moves, aud things, must
be taken us they are. 1t is idle to
curse imitation and at the same time
defend the unnatural causes which
have given it birth. A drowning man
will take logical way OF escape if il
is presented 10 him. lie will take q
life-preserver, canoe, a raft, u pole, o
rope, but il nothing else officers he will
seize splintered mast or stray ice
berg-anything that promises life and
land. lie will not stop TO discuss the
science OF navigation, or the theory OF
the gulf streams, or the circles of ocean
cyclones, however important such
things are to the world. He will con-
slider the one question Of escape from
his misfortune, and will accept what
ever offers immediate deliverance. 1t
y Sss 1S NTH dsJ tas ndasah x classes e
or labor nor bread. The hum of their
mills and the rude music of their forge;
and factories have died out the farmer,
the manuiS cturer, the operator, the
merchant have no labor to offer them,
and they 60 homo from day 10 day to
renew the hopeless battle with want.
They remember that few years ago
there was initiation, good wages, pros.
perity and plenty, and they do not
stop TO read ''Csreys Political Econo-
my" or President Grants veto mes
sages, or Senator J ones eloquent tributes
tobullion currency. They want money
because they believe that it will start
the mills and factories and mines, quick
en- all the arteries of commerce and
trade, and give them labor and food
and rainment. Commerce in its CEN
tres will plunge its conservatism TO the
front and the nightmare of the Com
mune will make sad unrest in the
counting-houses. Bankers and money
changers will recoil from this bold as
sault upon their trade and rally to re-
sent ii but all such will be appalled,
as they note the listless ear Of industry
when the appeal is made to it, In
1872, when capital was aroused by the
threatened election of Greeley, indus
try cordially responded to its call
Both were prosperous then, and change
was just what neither wanted. Now
both are prostrated, but capital can
live and wait-labor starvcs and can
not wait. Taxes are oppressive, Off
cials have high salaries and plunder
with impunity, and debauched leaders
defy every bentof honest public opinion.
The campaign starts a fire like in q
dry stubble-field. 1t may be qucnchcd
and the tide turned back into the fceb-
lest ebb, but it is improbable. AT first
blush it looks like destruction, for il
will sweep the field as it now promises,
and the only question is whether the
barns and fences can be saved. I'm
less stayed by some now unexpected
hand 1t will defy all ordinary political
efforts TO arrest II in its course, and
many who trcmble at il as its flames
kiss each other over the rotton political
stubble, will rejoice that, wayward us
ii may be, il will leave none of the
scrpents and vermin alive. II will be
n deliverance from q nest OF political
mousing owls whose destruction will
justify even the sweep of the flames or
the hurricane. Imitation is the patent
panacea Of the chronic sufferers Of all
parties. 1t has the support of both
Democratic and Republican organs in
onc-third Of the State, and Republican
conventions in counties like Allegheny
have pronounced il good. II Is not
simply specifc--it Is an universal
remedy for nll our political ills, and
they are innumerable. The whole
catalogue Of diseases known in materia
lncolca ,,. has It's counterpart in the list
zooty and hay fever and bronchitis and
mumps and measles and small. .pox and
levers ana Jaund'ce and cholera, and
the starving and idle into clear and
pure atmosphere, and proposes 10 car
y mem over the yawning gulf Of want