The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-08-27

NIB. NAsBY TAKES A LITTLE TURN
THROUGH OHIO AND REPORTS.

/ Mb- NAcDI lAhEo ~ III LIE Ac ~
THROUGH OHIO AND REPORTS.
PETTUsvILLE,
{wich Is In the State NV Ohio.)
Aug. ., 1879.
l felt it my dooty to heed the Mas
edonian cry wich the Dimocrisy Nv
Ohio yelped, "Kum over and helI
i" and went, to do q little mish
unary work in the Sutbern part Nv
the State, for that 'possel Nv onlimit
ed money, that hsrbinger Nv good
times, Gen4 Ewing l wish l wuz
back in the Corners, and shell gil
there jist ez soon ez the Sentral Com
mittee lets me leeve this most thor
ougEly discourag:n kentry.
Ell the rest nv the State is any
thing like this seckshun, Ohio is gone
up. Room is before Ohio, and the
State is drivin full tilt onto it.
/ met with 10 success at all, wich
wuz not my fault, ez the condishns
are agin me. l wuz never so disap-
pintid in my life, and hope never to
be so sgin
expected 10 find people ready
to receive Dimecratic doctrine. |
expected to find q distrest kentry
filed with farmers bemoanin the
hard times, and mechanics layin idle,
with ther families stsrvin. j expect
i'd to find o shoelis, hstlis, coatlis
community Nv serfs, wich he'd bin
ground down by the money power
till they wood be wlllin to receive
any promise nv change with JOY
and gladnis. l expected to see fac
trys silent and farms desertid, shops
shet up, and only Nashnel banks and
sicb, open. l expected to find pale
men, weak-eyed with hunger, and
pale-faced, despsirin wimmen, starvin
themselves that they mite keep life in
to their angel babes.
he'd bin reedin Dimecratic papers,
700 see, about the people bein ground
under foot, and | hied me to Ohio,
with the most joyous antissipa-
shuns.
When / struck Pettusville it oc.
Cured to me that | must hev got in.
to the wrong locality. l arrived in
the mite, and I notist the landlord Nv
the hotel weighed suthin over two
hundred, and his wife wuz suthin
heavier, but that didn't affect me. In
all strikly Dimecratic localities, land
lords git fat, no matter who else
grows lean, wich they ginerally do. /
turned in and hugged the idee to my
buzm that l shood hev easy work to
do in that place.
The fust thing notist in the morn
in wuz string nv teens mile long,
more or less, waitin to onload wheat
at the warehouse on the ralerode.
The men onto the loads wuz ez hale
and harty set Nv fellers ez ever
seed. They wuzn't pale nor wan,
nor nutbin They wuz betty speci-
mems, and lookt ez tho they he'd
three square meels day all their
lives.
To my horror | notist that the
shops wuz all open and the mechan-
les all very hard at work, and that
the three factories in the town he'd
torrents Nv smoke q bilin out Nv their
chimneys
Bein entirely shoor that ! he'd bin
sent to tie rite place, in spite Nv these
discouragin appearances. l approached
farmer wich he'd sold his load and
wuz o goin into Bank with his wife.
"My friend" sed !, ''yoo are q vic.
tim Nv the money power ~
What !" wuz his reply, lookin ez
though he thought 1 wuz a escaped
loonatic.
"Yoo are serf, bondman, and
are held in the iron grip Nv the bloat-
id bond-holders, wich is a squeezin
the life blood out NV yoo.n
els they 7" sed he. III never thot
nv that. But / kin beet EN-. / real
ly haven't time to discuss the matter,
for, 700 see, I'm goin to be a bonded
bloat- t-holder myself. l hev Jest sold
my wheat, and I'm jist goin in to buy
a bond or two. ! want to be aris-
tocracy myself while"
And be eloodid me, leevir o button
in my hand.
Repeatin the same remark to an
other, he merely remarkt, 30, git out,
yoo ass! Wheat 80 bushels to the
acre and dollar a bushel, gold. ]
want great many years more Nv
this kino nv room. Where 700 frum,
anyway 2"
Abandonin the farmers 10 disgust,
for / got the same answer from all
nv EN-, / attempted to git in my
work on the distrest mechanics wich
must hev bin rooined by resumpshun,
but my success wuzn't any better.
don't know but / Good hev convinsi
EN- that they wuz all rooined eff / bed
he'd q fair show, but the alarmin fact
wuz they wuz all too bizzy to listen
to me, for it happened to be payday
Every man Nv EN- went cut Nv the
offs with bis money in full. and every
man nv EN- declined to hear word
/ sed.
1t wuz in vane 1 urged that they
wuz serfs, it wuz in vane that l told
EN- they wuz bein ground into the
dust by the Nashnel Banks, it wuz in
vane l told EN- resumption wood be
their room, for every cussid one oil
EN- fled past me and went and de-
Ipositid their spare earnicgs in one Nv
these cussid octopusses, the Nashnel
bank nv the place.