Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-20

AND DErLoREs THE CONFLICT OF NATURE
AMP DEMOCRACY IN PIrEoTs STRAIN.
am disgusted and dishartencd. Every
thing under heaven seems to work agin the
Democracy, and make cOntinyood success
impossible. We succeeded in electin a dem
ocratc Congris, the people hevin tired NV
Republican rool. and it did seem to me that
there wuz nothin in the way NV a continyoo-
ance thereof. for aindefnit period. looked
confidently fored to the post office at the Cor
ners, and rcely expected that shood end my
days holding that commisshun and spendin
the salary pleasantly and cheertully at Bas-
CONS.
In the fust place we wuZ shoor that Sher-
mans resumption wood cause wide spread
disaster, wich the people wood charge TO the
republican party, and would bring the Nash
nels over to us. yoonitin both parties agin the
common foe. and that after that everything
would he plain salin. We Good sweep the
kentry like a tornado, levin nary greesc-
spot NV the Radikels behind us.
But somehow it didn't work Sherman
resoomed the fist NV Jano0ary without the
sitest trubble, and the kentrv, instid NV goin
to everlastin room. went on prosperin al a
faster rate than ever. Toour horror faiyoors
begun to grow lesser and lesser. and when
went too Louisville and interviewed the mer
chants and manufacturers, and they all told
me that biznes wuz better than it had bin for
yeers. and tibet it wuz constantly increasing.
and increasing to in a helthy way, and tibet
they wuz payin their hands promply. and
tibet the hands wuZ gettin on first rate and
wuz comfortable; then my hart sunk within
nv buzyom and went home dshartened and
discurridged.
Bascom is more NV Roman than am
This wuz erly in the seeson, and when wuz
wecpn over the prosperity NV the kentry. he
remarkt. brace up, parson, there is yit hope
for the dimocrisy. The crops may yit fale.
and room may Wit ensoo"
Them words give me hope. and l watched
the crop reports with intense anxiety, and
sighed like Jeremiah. the great lamenter--
Oh thet the frost wood strike the corn in the
blade and the cowcumbers on the vine.
Oh tibet the fruit wood perish in the bud.
and the scab wood git among the sheep!
Oh that the murrain and the horn-ail wood
rage among the kine
oh tibet the CHAMBERS wood spred among
the bosses and cut them down by the thou
sand, yea, by the ten thousand.
Oh tibet the cholera wood revel among the
hogs and destroy them ALL from the nurture
SOW down 10 the tender and succulcnt suck
ling!
Oh tibet the rot wood destroy the pertater.
and the cut worm the tender corn
Then wood the people be distrest, and they
wood charge it to the account NV John Sher-
man, resumption and the republican party.
and we shood elect Tilden and Reform in
1880. and shood enjoy my post-offis
All NV these wood it take, and more, to en-
shoor a triumf fer the dmocrisy.
waited fer these in vane. Nacher favers
the republican party. Their wuz no cut worm,
no frost, no hog-cholera, no murain, no nuth-
in. | he'd some hope wunst, when | herd the
weevil and HessIan fly he'd appeared in the
wheel in lllinov, but my sole sank when the re-
port wuz pronounced unfounded. The wheel
is averagin 80 bushels to the aker, 1t Is sellin
fur a dollar or Whereabouts and the money
pade fur it is good, and the farmer is rejoicin.
What good does it do fur me to 60 about
bowling about hard times to a farmer with &c
bushels to the akre in his barns
What good is it to howl about bad money,
when the farmer kin hev gold and silver. Of
he wants it, jist the same as paper money?
Watts the yoose wv talking about a change
NV polisy when the people is all on broad
grin
hev only one more hope. There are oc.
casluns when corn is the principle crop, and
corn may Wit be destroyed. early frost il
Suthcrn Indiana might do us some good; but
after the disappointment with the wheel hev
but faint hopes Nv that. But if there Good
be frost that wood kill the entire crop, and
thus put up the price NV whiskey and side
pork, it would enrage that seckshun and thus
enshoor that State for Tildcn and reform.
But hev no hope Nv enything. l am So
yoost to disappointment that l shood be sur
prised at eny such strcek ov luck. 1t don't
do no good fer me to leen up agin lamp post
and sware that work kant be had in konse-
quence nv John Sherman's reronstructshen,
for Joe Bigler jeers and asks when ever did
put in stroke NV work enyhow. And once
when was declaimin agn the scarcity NV
labor. he put me down by offerin me dollar
and half day to go out and hoe corn on n
farm he hez. fur witch he coodn't git labor
enuf. To Civ us envy hope NV success We
must hev hard times in ded earnest, and reel
distress. and ov that can see no hope
Nacher is agin us, and who can fte agr
nacher PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Distressed Financer.