The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-09-27
( A CLUMSY, LITTLE FORGERY
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The editor of the GAINESVILLE Signal
obliglngly informs us thatt the anti'Demo-
cratic newspapers in that State are print
ing as an extract from the New York
World the following sentences, and asks
us toilet him know whether werecognize
them as genuine i'' la WAX
"The American laborer must make up
his mind henceforth not to be 30 much
better off than the European laborer.
~ y Men must content themselves
with less wages. In this way the work.
ingman will be nearer to that station OF
life [slavery] which it has pleased God
to call him."
Perhaps we ought not to be surprised
that the editors Of "anti-DemoCratic la
pers" in Ohio, in the heat Of a sharp con-
test, should think any weapon fair that
comes to their hands, and we are by no
means sure that they will cease to use
this forgery against the Democratic par
ty, even after they have learned that it
is forgery, and Of the basest and mean
est sort That, however, is their own
affair; and tits due to our friends Of the
GAINESVILLE sigma. that we should enable
them to brand it for what it is. The ex'
tract in question is deliberate forgery
made up by putting together out of their.
natural connection detached passages of
an article upon Mr.. Wels's paper How
to Regain our National Prosperity" which
appeared in the World of July II, 1877,
under the title Of "The Day of Small
Things" The doctrine of this article
addressed to Americans of al. classes,the
rich and the poor, thezcapitalistsand the
laborer alike, was so sound and Demo-
cratic that it can do no harm to repro
duce here that part of it from which, with
the help of phrases. invented and inter-
polated by the forger, the scurvy forgery
about which our correspondent in Ohio
inquiries was ConCoCted
at is we'll for US, one and all, to under
stand that we have made for ourselves
harder bed to lie in than that we were
born to. The day of small things has
come to us. That means that we must
all make up our minds to accept as per-
manent the general scaling down of
things. Men mast be content 10 aOOrk OrieSS
WdgeS, to sell at more moderate profit, to
look for smaller returns for their invest
ments. The United States have just
placed loan at per cent, and this is a
significant symptom on a large scale OF
what is going on everywhere on small
scale. Business will revive all the earlier
and the revival will be all the more
healthy if the public understands that
the revived business cannot be what the
old business was, and that the present
state of trade is not a temporary spasm,
but the result of condition to which trade
must adjust itself. The changes which
have been wrought in this country since
1860 have all tended to equalize the con.
ditions of life as between Europe and
America, and these conditions have ap'
preached each other much more nearly
than Americans twenty years ago ever
expected to see them do, and much more
nearly than the vast majority of Ameri-
cans are yet aware. The american labor.
er must makeup his mind beYlceforth not TO
be so much better off than the European labor
er as his father was, and that it will be
harder for him than it was for his father |
to cease to be laborer and become an |
employer of labor.
"As Mr.. Wells says, man will hereaf-
ter have more of struggle in this coun-
try to escape from the place in which he
was born. Heretofore the injunction of
the catechism to man to do his duty |
''in that station of life 10 which II has pleased |
God 10 call him" has had next to no mean
ing for an active minded American. The
ultimate results of these changes will be
great insociety and politics as well as in
business. Buttheimmediate lesson they |
make is plain to whoever ponders them
that the flush times which many people |
anticipate will not come back in season
to be available for this generation, and
that the small sayings of small earnings
and thesmall boards of fsmall profits must
be the foundations of future competence
and of future fortunes throughout the
Northern and Western States, at least, of
the republic"
1t ia of trifing consequence who the
original rogue may have been whos set to
work to fabricate out OF this article the
forgery to which our GAINESVILLE friends
call our attention, We have seen it drift
ing about in our exchanges for some time
past but life is too short to waste in hunt
ing down lies and we assure our Zanes-
vile friends that we could not give them
a stronger proof of our respect for them
and for the cause in which they are fight
ing than we now do in taking the trouble
to show them to what straits Of stupid
malignity their enemies and the enemies
of common sense and justice in politics
are reduced,