The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-14
2IDAY MORNING, JANUARY Il, 1876.

they failed not to put their own stout
shoulders to the wheel Dolorously
chanting
| 'Oh good and mighty Greenbacks, come
with swift salvation,
| And cure the SORROWS that afiiict this most
afflicted Nation.
/ With thy strong arm deliver us from all this
host of evils,
And with paper Beelzebub cast ont these
other devils
they plowed, nevertheless, while they
wailed, and planted while they sorrowed.
The result was, more ground planted.
more thorough tiIlage and larger crops
harvested. Here are the figures. Men
of Ohio! your own figures they are.
Look at them aud then give heed. In
the year 1867 you planted in grain and
potatoes only 4,44S, 900 acres. In 1865
you planted of the same crops 1, no, 600.
In 1869 you die better still; you planned
5,059, 900 acres In 1870 you increased
this to 5,16S,0 0)0 acres, and in 1871 to
1854, 900. Thus, in the course of four
years after you resolved to mend your
ways, you increa ased the surface of your
planting and sowing by one million of
acres, or 25 per cent. And not only did
you work wider, but you worked better,
and raised a good many more bushels to
the acre. Against 1O4 millions of bush
els grown in 1867, you produced in 1868
122 millions; in 1869, 126 millions; in
1870 the product was 140 millions, and in
1871 it reached 1Gj millions, showing an
increase in four years OF say sixty mil
lions of bushels, or at the rate of 5S per
cent. Thus we have 60 millions OF
bushels of golden grain and mealy, belly
filling potatoes as the fruits of the fourth
year of your reformation. Was not this
a better way of raising money than by
raising the wind through initiating vol
ume and lowering value2 Had the skies
opened in answer to your prayers, and
benificent greenbacks appeared above
the clouds and showered down upon
you sixty millions of nominal dollars,
would they have done you as much good
No; sixty millions of empty sacks, each
stamped ''good for a bushel of grain,"
would have been better than such dol
lars, whose value as capital would have
been lost in their depreciation as cur
rency long before the end of four years,
Il
their usefulness for repudiatiug debt.
There is much virtue in large crops of
breadstuffs. A bushel of wheat or corn
can command money. 1t has power to
draw greenbacks from the vaults of New
York banks and solid dollars from afar.
Give your labor TO your soil, and it will
give yod yearly crops; you could hardly
expect fresh crop of greenbacks every
year.
After the terrible waste caused by the
civil war, and the hardly less terrible
waste caused by the forced circulation
of en- inflated currency, you could not
expect to recover in only seven years the
prosperity you enjoyed before. But you
are not badly Off Your increased pro-
duction has brought money from the
Eastern cities that in your poorer years
you could not keep because you had not
the commodities that could command its
presence. Your yearly incomes you have
enormously increased, and you are be
come more economical. Trade is good
i'll solid and solvent Cincinnati. Bottom
was touched there while New York and
Boston floated Oh dreams of wealth, and
from the bottom she is now building up,
and building well.
Would you know the moral principle
that during seven years brought you
down so low, and that has since then
worked so well for your re establish
ment. it is this: Wien men feel rich
they ,0ont ,OoTk;; J0ien theyJeef poor they
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