Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-28
Cause OF Hard Times.

Democra' Convention at Mineral
Point last week, said:
There never was time when greater suffer-
ing existed among the labOring classes of our
population especially is this true in the large
cities There is almost an entire lack of stea-
Gy employment at remunerative wages The
manufacturing and commercial interests of the
country are Frustrated and paralysed To as
certain and remove the causes of this unver-
sal depression in business is one of the most ur-
gent dnties of those within whose power it lies
so to do.
Well, we will tell you sorie OF the
causes. You observe Justly that it is
the industry of the country that is par
alyzed. Laborers, mechanics and man
ufacturers have nothing to do. Those
who live by the labor of their bands
generally get little more than their liv-
ing while they work. When there is
no work for them their living is gone.
There are other classes of men who
are always boarding wealth. Bankers,
brokers, spectators, capitalists, mon
opolists and railroad lawyers some
times thrive most when industry is
paralysed. When the poor man is
out of employment the little property
he has is put under mortgage to keep
him alive and ere long the title to that
little property becomes vested in the
money lender. The poor man has
grown poorer and is in distress, while
the rich man has grown richer-fat-
tened upon dead industry. Mr.. Orion
is banker and money lender, and
there are many persons in the district
he would like to represent who are
losing the little they have and others
in anguish because they cannot get
work for bread, whilo he doubtless is
all the time adding to his wealth.
While millions of people are idle and
thousands who have begged for work,
in painful dread of the day they must
beg for bread, Samuel j. Tilden, and
men like him, has been gathering his
property into his vaults until he counts
his boarded dollars by the millions.
These are some of the causes of this
universal depression. We can also
tell of one way for those within whose
power it lies so to do" to remove the
causes. If Tilden and Co. would dis
tribute among the farmers along the
Harlem extension railroad what they
duped them out OF to induce them to
build a railroad for the use Of the Til
denis there is no doubt those farmers
would be richer than they are and
could give employment to many of the
idle men in their vicinity. If the vast
sum he took from the people among the
line Of the old Galena road was re-ds-
tributed among them, they also could
pay debts or make improvements
which would give work to the unem-
ployed along that belt of country. Or
to take another view of it, il the two
million six hundred thousand dollars
taken from the true owners of that and
the Peninsular road, through Tilden's
craft, were restored, those roads could
afford large reductions on freights. In
either case times here and there would
be improved and the people happier
According to a report of the Chicago
Board of Trade, Tiden's doings caus-
ed rise of "a per cent in the cost of
farmers shipments; of 50 per cent. on
merchants freights and 284 per cent.
on passenger fares. People interest
ed in the st. Louis, Alton and Terre
Haute, in the Beleville and Southern,
Indian Southern, and the Erie and At
lantic, were defrauded by the tricks of
the same trickster. He got the lions
share of the plumber but his is not all
If what they all stole were put into a
treasury to be paid out in living wa.
ges it would keep the greater part OF
those in want of employment. engaged
through the coming winter. \ large
number of laborers in Michigan were
defrauded of their wages through
another monopolizing scheme which
Tiden was engaged in Let him dis
tribute some of his boarded millions
among them and times will be easier
| there. To be short with this, Tilden
is now in possession of six or eight
million dollars cunningly taken from
the industry Of the country and that
industry is furnishing. Let him re-
store to industrious men what right
fully belongs to them, since cit lies in
his power SO to do" and the
manufacturing and commercial inter
eSts OF the country will feel such a
stimulus, that great revival will be
inaugurated and history will set to
Shamnv, T.il1An,s. credit the first no.
bic act OF his selfish old bachelor life.
We have now shown to Mr.. Orion
some of the causes of the present uni
versal depression in business and the
way to remove them. Will he go and
tell Sammy?