Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-21
NASBY.
Mr Nasby Takes a Little Turn
Through Ohio and Reports.

wien Is IN Inc SCaI6 Oh OnlO,l
August 5, 1879.
felt it my dooty to heed the Masedo-
lian cry, wich the Democrisy Nv Ohio
yelped, "Kum over and help usp' and
went, to do little mishunary work in
the Suthern part NV the State, for that
'possel NV Unlimited money, that harbin-
ger Nv good times Gen1 Ewing. wish
| wuZ back in the Corners, and shel get
there jiSt eZ soon eZ the Sentral COM
nifty lets me leeve this most thorough
ly discouragin kentry.
Eff the rest Nv the State Is ennythlng
like this seckshen, Ohio is gone up.
Room is before Ofio, and the State is
driven full tilt onto it.
L met with no success at all, witch wuZ
not my fault, ez the condishins are agin
me. l wuz never so disappointed in my
life, and hope never to be so agin.
expected to find apeople ready to re-
ceive Dimecratic doctrine. l expected
to find a distrest kentry filled with
farmers bemoanin the hard times, and
mechanics layin idle, with their families
starVin. / expected to find Shoells,
hatlis, coatlis community w serfs, wich
he'd bin ground down by the money
power till they would be willin to re-
ceiye any promise NV change with joy
and gladnis. expected to see factris
silent and farms desertid, shops shet up
and only nashnel banks and sich open.
l expected to find pale men, weak-eyed
with hunger, and pale-faced, despairin
women, starvin themselves that they
mite keep life in their angel babes.
/ he'd bin reedin Dimecratic papers,
yoo see, about the people bein ground
under foot, and hied me to Ohio, with
the most joyous antissipashens.
When struck Pettusville it occurred
to me that I must hev got into the
wrong locality. L. arrived in the mite,
and nOtist the landlord NV the hotel
weighed suthin over two hunderd, and
his wife wuZ suthin heavier, but that
didn't affect me. In all strikly Dime
cratic localities, landlords git fat, no
matter who else grows lean, witch they
generally do. 1 turned in and Rugged
the idee to my buzum that 1 shOod hev
easy work to do at that place.
The fust thing l notist in the mornln
wuz a string NV teams mile long, more
or less, waitin to onload wheat at the
warehouse on the raleroad. The men
onto the loads wuz en- hale and harty a
set NV fellers eZ l ever seed. They wuz
hefty specimens, and lookt ez tho they
he'd he'd three square meals day all
their lives.
To my horror I notised that the shops
wuz all open and the mechanics all very
hard at work, and that the three factries
in the town he'd torrents Nv smoke
billing out NV their chimneys.
Bein entirely shoOr that he'd bin sent
to the right place in spite NV these discur-
ridgin appearances, l approached a
farmer wich he'd sold his load and wuz
just agoin into bank with his wife.
my friend" said l, "yoo are a victim
NV the money powerp
"Wat!" wuz his reply, lookin ez tho
he thot l wuz a escaped loonatic.
-''Y 90 are serf, a bondman, and are
held in the iron grip Nv the bloatid
bondholders, wich is squeezin the life
blood out Nv yoo."
"Is they?" said he. 81 never thot NV
that. But kin beet 'em. l reall havn't
time to discuss the matter, for, you see,
l am goin to be a bonded bloathOlder
myself. l hev jist sold my wheat, and
I'm jist goin in to buy bond or two.
l want to be aristocracy myself
awhile"
And he elooded me, leaving a button
in my hand.
Repeatin the same remark to another,
he merely remarkt, 20, git out. you ass
Wheat 20 bushels to the aker and dol
lar busnel, gold. want great many
years more NV this kind NV rooin.
Where are you frum, anyway"
Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for
I got the same answer from all Nv EN-,
L attempted to git in my work on the
distrest mechanics which must have
been rooined by resumpshen, but my
success wasn't any better. Idon't know
he'd he'd fair show, but the alarmin
fact wuz they wuz all too bizzy to listen
to me, for it happened to be pay day.
Every man Nv em went out Nv the otfiis
with his money in full, and every man
NV EN- declined to hear word l sed.
1t wuz in vane l urged that they wuZ
serfs, it wuZ in vane that / told EN-
they wuz bein ground into the dust by
the nashnel banks, it wuz in vane told
EN- resumpshen wood be their room, for
every cussed one of EN- filed past me
and went and deposited their spare earn
ings in one of these cussid octopusses,
the nashnel bank Nv the place.
/ can't understand what Ewing sent
me to sich place fur, and 1 telegraph
ed him. The Dimecratic Sentral Com
mittee answered.:
Hold on awhile. A heavy frost may
come in August and kill the corn, and
fetch EN- to their senses. Then they
will know what Sherman hez done for
EN-. Suthen must be left to Providence"
And SO I am sittin in the tavern,
watchin the thermometer. 1t is corn
kentry, and the farmers depend upon
that crop for the heft Nv their profits.
Eff the Lord would only take pity on the
Dimocrisy and send a heavy frost,
reglar black frost, this month, shOod
hev some show. 1t wood derange things
and tear up matters to sich an extent
that it wood give us a chance. But
then the wheat crop was so heavy that
I'm not shoor that even the totle de-
strucshen NV the corn crop wood save
us. The hog cholera can't come soon
enuff, and ez for cattle, horses, l never
seed em so disgustinly healthy.
Still, l shell sit and watch the ther-
mometer and cuss John Sherman. 1t is
possible that some distress may come
upon the kentry before October, tho l
really see no encurridgin signs.