Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
POLITICAL = DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Some Questions for the Chronic Fault.
Finders ~ Ponder Over, from
LAWYER and ex.JOurnnifst.


effort TO underSlnnd. When we do under.
stand it, then we can hold a lantern "a
help out the Cabinet, Senators and Repre-.
sentatives who are cropping in the Nam.
moth Cave OF national finances. But
should man who cannot save his own
feet from the quicksands and frightiul
chasms be a guide for others7 Can the
man who can not keep his private ledger
from bankruptcy direct the finances and
affairs OF the city OF Toledo or Of the
nation, 50 their revenues will be abundant
and yet not burdensome7 Toledoan,
employ Whitney, and Malone, and Boyce
and Van San1eet, TO build their com mmercinI
blocks, because these clear headed men
can, II they try, put up good buildings fot
themselves. so, for analogy, ], for one
am inclined, when a robust and hearty
chap confronts me with complaints about
the hard times and the "infamous" finan.
cial policy Of lie Government, to inquire
into the skill and fidelity displayed in the
management OF his own affairs. Thus far
have found that the troubles Of most
compIainants are within their own control
and the offspring oil their own gendering.
These conplainunts are familiar with the
Democrats old speeches about the bond.
holders. and with the new revelati n about
paper money, and the direct issue Of il by
the Government, and the rest of the clap.
trap in tile creed Of the Nationals. But
they have forgotten that in the so-called
"g0Od" times crime was rampant, bergars
were abundant, wages were not IN keerng
with the prices OF rent and clothing; that
the real estate men held lots and homes III
where no labOrer could pay for them, even
II their legs could stand It to walk the
long distance to them. They have forgot
ten that very large fraction Of the suffer
ers are too often unreliable and incompe.
tent. They have forgotten that no less a
prophet than Moses sud, "The poor shall
never cease out Of the land" Though pa.
per money be ever 20 flush. They don't
remember that the failures in the Western
States in 1872-one year before silver was
demonetized and three years before the
Resumption law was passed-were in their
aggregate liabilities S27, 100000, while
last year they were but $23,O0O,O00.
insist that the course pursued by the
Bee, and other journals hostile to the f.
nancial legislation of the Government, il
destructive of self-reliance and effort - a
virtue in freemen OF vastly greater inpor-
lance than that their money should be
paper or coin. 1 insist that it is not in
Keeping with true philanthropy or states
manshlp, to teach young or incompetent
lawyers and doctors that they could have
"a Ill tho bnainosa 1hou II
man was beheaded; to teach the incompe-
tent carpenter, painters and masons that
the Resumption law is what keeps them
from getting living to inflame swinders
and thieves and dead beats with malice
towards bankers and capitalists to torture
'peculators with schemes that would yield
them bonanzas without expending honest
labor or making honest stalements, but for
the hard money men. / insist il is not
the part OF wise fathers to teach the rising
generation that prosperity is made by leg
islation and not by labor, and that Solo
mon deceived when he said, "He that hast
eth to be rich, hath an evil eye."
suggest that such questions rs the fol-
lowing nre the ones that should be nut to
of the manual laborers whose
ears ache from the frequeHt scraping Of
the bottom OF their -four barrels: Did yeu
spade and plant the little patch about Your
house last spring, and did you ask leave to
ploW and plant the vacant lot next TO YOU /?
DO you know that every idle man in
Northwestern Ohio could get from rs cents
10 Sl 25 day, and his board, in ditchng
and plowing in Wood and other counties,
from the hour the grain was harvested till
the wet season came? Do you know that
10 cents will go as far in supplying fam
lily as 81 80 in cheap money times? Do
you know that the capacity of the Milburn
Wagon Works is for Just so many men,
and that this yeai every forge has been
hamlng and every wheel whirlimg, and
that II is the company's directors who con-
troll the wheels and forges of that and 9TH
er manufactures and not John Sherman?
Do you know that Toledo can support lust
so many masons, and carpenters, and
painters, and hackmen, and no more, and
hat the men who employ them the most
are they who saved their money when You
were sqnandering yours? Do you know
hat inventive genius brings to shop and
leld every morning scores of machines that
push the labOrer aside and leave him idle
unless his mind is awake to seek other
work, or he goes to other places and that
IN the next morning all the capital and
kill and labor centred in the first machines
ire rendered worthless by vastly better
invention, and that no amount Of money
,ould save the wreck and sudden change.
40 more than the cart loads of confederate
money could crown the rebellion with sue.
'essT Have you ever thought of the
'leepless watch sailors keep on the winds
Ind currents, and that machinery is like
lelp or harm TO you on which you should
Keep ceaseless vigil When the grain
md lumber dealers and merchants roll
'ast you in their fine equipagea, has il ever
'rept into your mind that their wheels
would soon squeal for grease; bat for the
ially bulletins of sales, receipts and prices,
md that similar bulletins of the supply
md demand of laborers in the several in
iustrles and the wages paid would render
he tramp extinct?
insist, Mr.. Editor, that lie that shares
n the production Of bread will, If he saves
What he gets. generally have all the loaves
le and his family can eat. | would have
,very voter subject himself to an annual
examination respecting the main provisions
If the important laws Of the state and
lationi aud the main facts given in the
Governors and Presidents message. But
What the majority OF the men and
women who stretch out their withered
iands to us neod, is to know and practice
he elementary economies relating to their
,very day life. And / submit if il is not
he part of wise journalists to teach them
llese things, rather than to inlame them
owardS class Of men whose industry and
and wisdom in managing their
'wn affairs, show them capable Of directing
public affairs?
Isubmit, finally, il the same spirit of get
lp, and-get which has given the Bee larger
'air oi wings, new press, a new hive, and
,ombs ful OF honey, amidstall the "blight"
md ruin" credited to national legislation
Yen't likewise give every man who tries il
! better supply Of bread and meat?
CHARLES Eaton,
No. 1913 Bancroft Street.
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