Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-29
FOUND AT LAST.
work for the Idle, and Bread for the
Hungry.

and anow, and mud, and ice, was there not
weird voice uskug at the broken window
Of every hungry nsni Why not plow
aud plant7 Wniling winter no longer
gives voice to those words, but the sun is
printing them in great, red letters on the
dawn OF these spring days; the birds are
singing them Mt every poor mans door,
and The gentle winds as they played in un-
barred freedom ever countless vacant lots
aud untitled acres about us, are pleading
ly asking Why not plow and plant1
THE FRIENDLY PLow.
II is in the fnrrow Of the pillow that the
nations find their bread and not in the
mint, the money press or the statute book.
Fair Liberty might as we'll be chained in
a dungeon ns to dwell in the richest
land under the lest laws Moses could
make, and supplied with all the money
Peter Cooper could print, or John Sher-
man coin, If her sons neglect TO plow and
plant. The plow is to thrift what the
sword is 10 war. The plow gives motion
to all machinery's wheels. Let the plow
share rust and machinery will rot, and
mechanics and operatives will starve.
There were never too many men nt
the plsw in this country, and from
it never came overproduclion but in re.
spect to time and place there we're too
many men and too much money IN ex-
travagant and needless machinery, and
from il came an Uyer-production of trash,
from cheap jewelry TO useless railroads,
which, together with oyer-Rpeculating aud
over.mOrtgnging, brought upon us fnan-
cial congestion. Let no poor man go
from the field to the factory to earn lis
bread withou: considering that steam, and
saws, and lathes, and looms, and knives
and apindles have no children to feed, no
rent TO pay, no bones nor brains to ache
no blood to poison, no fingers to crush and
cut, no eyes to sleep, no friends to bury
nor no souls to be damned or saved-and
that, with those great odds, machinery
will always beat him in bidding for work
and wages Let him remember that those
who have figured up the pOweref machin-
cry, find it in England equal to forty mil
liOn men, and in America proportionaLely
large aud, that with the sudden revSlu-
tions in this mighty power, there must
follow startling and disastrous suspensions
and dispacements OF mammal work, COM
pared to which the effect Of Chinese cheap
labor is uncomfortable. Machinery is
one of the grandest agencies OF the age, but
Reason must hold its throttle MS Vigilance
holds the helm of commerce 10 make the
winds 10 sail and not sink her ships.
THE HONEST PLow.
Tho ploW never cheats, neither can il
he cheated. 1t never drew a mean from a
mothers heart, nor tear from a child's
eye. 1t never charged a poor man uHury
nor sold his home. 1t never robbed a hen
rOost nor burnt a building. II never
whispered scandal nor told a lie. 1t never
set dysPepsy to digging mans grave nor
put ghost in his chamber 10 haunt his
dreams. 1t never charged OF the store
book things that were never bought nor
gave light weight and short measure. 1t
never Knocked n man because of his poor
clothing ner irewned OH q mother because
she was out of fashion.
THE HAPPY PLow.
The plow is life giving. He who holds it
holds an electric battery whose current is
health and strength, with no bills to pay 10
the doctor or druggist. The pillow is civil
izer. Plow a furrow and the savage shoots
his parting arrow. The pillow is u peace
maker. It fills wars trenches, levels her
hands hold OF the plow, and eyes on the
no man ever wronged his neighbor.
THE HoNoRED FLOW.
He who holds the plow walks in the
path OF duty which leads to glory. Kings
knew that and once held the plow. Presi-
dent jefferson made the improvement of
the form of the share study. 1t was
when Elisha was plewing that he first re-
ceived the mantle. One of the best lessons
at the Centennial was from Webster's plow
and the labelled declaration from his lips
that in his public service Mt the bar and
in the Senate he had never felt so proud
sensation as when holding that identical
pillow behind strong oxen. A member OF
Parliament prided himself on having in
vented pillow.
THE RELIABLE PLow.
pity the poor man who says he knows
not how to plow and plant. The art is to
him what swimming is to the sailor Dark
will be the day when plowing and planting
shall be one of the lost arts to a considera-
BILE portion OF the rich or poor. Toys fer
children, Jewels for brides coffins for the
dead and clothes and homes for the living
should be cheap, not because wOrkmen are
starving, but because of the universally
and abundance of good bread and butter.
| Let the poor put their faith first in the
| plow and then preserve an intelligent dis
tribution of their labor in manufactures,
and it will be impossible for the few TO
revel in velvets, laces, diamonds and char
lots, and in homes embellished with art
which Raphael might worship and Chi
berti adore, because OF the many whose
shoes are wooden, whose bread is black
whose vegetables are few and stale, and
whose children never laughed at sunbeams
on the floor and green grass in the yard,
nor never cracked a nut nor bit an apple.
THE THRIFTY PLow.
The numberless vacant lots and the hun.
dreds Of untitled acres about Toledo are
point,blank denials Of the demagogues
charge that there is no inviting field for
unemployed labor. In every corner where
spade can turn the sod and where a sun.
beam can curl bean vine, sprout potato
unfurl a corn stock, or paint straw berry
there is work for the idle and bread for til {
hungry. like to call Mr.. johnson, ihC
Dorr street gardener, bishop. No pontif
ever nourished and cultivated his jurisdic
tion more happily than johnson does his
diocese of tUOthsome vegetables. Out oil
his eight acres came a revenue last year o
over ST 800 besides the food for two fami
lies. | saw a corn field close upon the
heart OF Manchester, New Hampshire las
summer, that yielded the planter a vnstl,
} bigger dividend, proportioned 10 the none,
and labor invested than any of that city,
bankers and great manufacturers received
Corn stocks always have paid, and by tn,
decree of God always will pay better anC
surer dividend than bank and corporate
stocks. 1t is told, without denial, that
garden of two acres in Colusa, under tn,
marvellous sky Of California, supplies tn
vegetables for two thousand people.
should be charged with fiction were t.
state the hundreds Of dollars an Irishmal
pockets annually from an onion patel
twenty rods long and eight rods wide ol
Winter Hill, just out Of Boston. No on
may make such gardens; but ii the neg
Iected acres around us are well cultivate,
every man who does the work will hav
his "daily bread" which il, M near as
} can judge, all the ratiens the Lord taugh
us to ask for, the ambition o. the money
} getters to the contrary notwithstanding.