Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-06-29
The Roaa % Resumptton,

Mr.. IngersoIl, in presenting Blaine to
the Cincinnati Convention, remarked
that prosperity and resumption must
come together. There is good deal in
this 1t is often said that resumption
would lead to prosperity, but it is hard
for a man to nav his debts without first
earning the money, and what a man can
not do, a nation cannot do, because the
latter is but the aggregate OF the former.
With a depression of business, a shrink
age of values, and ledger accounts show
iHS be0garly results, it is hard for the
people to do more than to keep their
heads above water, and this being the
case, it is hardly worth while to talk
about plunge from paper to gold. This
thing cannot be done by legislation alone.
It requires labOr-the production of
wealth. This is what is is needed first,
and it must preeede resumption. Wealth
in this country, is the product of labor.
We can not get rich by trading, or talk
ing. OF getting up financial schemes, or
working up the theories of political econ
omists, People may be assisted in this
Nyay in making the best use of their re-
sources but after all, there must be solid
basis to work upon, and this basis can
only be found where hard and honest
labor are fairly rewarded, The soil and
the mines are the great sources of wealth
in this country, and the most important
of these is the soil. In order to secure
prosperitv in this country it is not only
necessary that we should produce all the
food and material needed for home con-
sumption, but great deal more. Europe
furnishes large market for our surplus
products, and it is desirable that this de-
mand should be fully met. If we are able
TO meet it we shall prosper. Instead,
therefore, of looking to Congress for relief,
we must look to our broad fields, and the
strong arms that keep the pillow, the loom,
and the anvil in motion, but more espe-
cially the plow.
In speculating as to the future, there
| fore we must look first and chiefly to the
crop prospects. If these are good the fu-
ture is full of promise; if these are bad,
| then there can be no change for the bet
ter in the times. Crop failures always
mean hard times. Often these are re-
verses from oVertrading, but the produc-
/ ton of wealth is the measure of trade,
/ and it is only when the latter falls off that
the country finds it has been Overtrading,
/ good crops and prosperity go hand IN
| hand as our resources can only be ade-
duately developed with an abundance of
food as raw material.
This being the case, the question now
is, what are the crop prospects? 1t is too
early, of course, to form safe opinion
as to the result of the approaching har-
vest, but at this time the outlook is de-
cidedIy favorable. Wheat is short in some
localities, but in the aggregate it is good
The same may be said of other small
grains, and of grass. The great staple,
corn, never promised a more abundant
Weld. Generally it was planted in good
season, and has made rapid progress
With seasonable weather hereafter, the
crop will be large one. The tobacco
crop also promises finely. OF cotton, OF
course, it is too soon to speak, but the
prospects are good. Providence may blast
some of our prospects, but fortunately
man can not. So far as the crops are con
cerned, bungling legislators can do nc
harm. 1 -
IF the harvest shall turn out as well a
they now promise, the country will soOI
feel degree of that prosperity that lead
to resumption. This is the way that lead:
to specie payments, and the only way
because without good crops and the eour
age that abundant harvests inspire, tn
people can not pay their debts, and wha
the people can not do, the nation can no
accomplish.-Cin Gaz.