Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
CnoAKING VS.. HOPING.


profits balanced in any IS days in mid
winter. We are 20 days old by the frat
resumption Of specie payments by the Gov
ernment. Because at sunrise on the day
after resumption the farmers could not
plow, the merchants could not sell spring
rigging, the carpenters could not drive
nails or the mnsona lay bricks, the financi-
al croakers redoubled their groanings, the
BEE always furnishing the key-grunl II
the repeated asser ions Of the crOnkers
that the Government could not maintain
resumption twenty -four hours, is recalled,
reasonable people will agree that since the
Government has, so far, fulfilled the re-
sumption law, the croakers ought to go
slow in their groanings over the business
prospects and solemnly consider il croak-
ing is not really played out.
RECKLESS OF CRoAKERs.
No railroad that untes Toledo with the
markets of America, anl no ships that go
out from our harboT upon the unsalted
seas, could have been built or blessed had
n great number of the craftsmen interested
therein croakcd Uf ruin aud opposed the
enterprises. The BEE could not be pub.
lished II week ii its stockholders croaked
about its failure halt Us much US the linun-
cial CrOakers cry down our business pros
poets. No doctor ever cured despondent
patient by telling him he could not get
well. 1t is n wonder that n new building
has been erected IN Toledo, that Il single
chimney b,lches the soOiy breath OF bust
industry, aud that single merchant sells
his wares when The murmnrings Of the
croakers are considered When the BEE
tells us that u gang of burglars are in
town, we turn the keys aud slide the bolts
When the red flag of the weather flutters
in fear Of bursting storm, no sailors
weigh anchor. When the BEE continually
tells us that there is no ri am of prosperity,
is it but natural that the ironville workers
let their fires 90 ont; that Osborn, Chase
& Swnyne said to their operatives We
have do more need Of YOU" and that the
concern OF MoOc's q Son is la the hands
Of an assignee? II your butcher tells YOU
that his meat makes people sick, will you
buy it? As long ~ so many mechanics
aud laborcrs unite in telling us that all
labor is in vain, is il not reasonable tha
no moneyed men dare employ them2 Dot
muurners wipe their eyes with onions
1t is n wonder that Gov. Ashley and his
Boston friends dared build their Ann A rhor
railroad il they listened to the croakers ;
and il they now seek to extend il down
Water street aud push it far beyond Ann
Arbor. The failure of Richers Il Co., was
perfectly natural ii WAS in tune with the
croakers' dirge But the reliable firms Of
Neuhausel Bros, and Finn d Young seem
ed to blaspheme the BEES prophecies
when they doubled their stores and in
creased their working forces so, too. with
the new carpet house that is about opening.
1t is passing strange that the shrewd Nab.
ley and other ciothiels should make the
very opposite move in their accommoda.
tons with the red flag of the BEE hosted
to what the sailors do when the Signal
Service shakes its red warming. Can the
grain dealers who built the Produce Ex-
change be sane? Those men who count
the margins for farmers, carriers, millers
av1 themselves should have built a tom b
f0r their work, instead Of temple fit Tor
the god1. The music from II onr railroad
shops, 80 delightful to the shades of old
Vulcan, is unseemly in the midst oi the
tinarcial funeral which we are told, is now
more impressive than ever in its sobs and
sack cloth. 1t is said that the Union
Manufacturing Company pays annually
$1,000 royalty to the man who happened
To make the first hicks on the ridges OF
their wash boards. Would it not be well
to have an inquest on the mental condition
OF the men conducting that thrifty concern
and also include in the inquest the men
who have ventured to reopen The shops ul
! tire fsu,hy pvUPrr ann Mower. and the
men who dared pay n dividend IN ,I,c
stock Of the Milburn Wagon Company
notwithstanding the lightning, fires aud
John Sherman have all warred against
them? Such men, aud all men, giving
employment to the idle lahnrer, should
stop snch reck klcssmess ii the BEES philn.
nphy is true, and put their money in city,
county or national bonds.
THE FRIGHTENING DAWN.
Though the land and the sea are strewr
with the wrecks of the long and lerrhI,
storm, let us rejoice at the first dim out
line of the heavenly bow of promise
| Stand in the market places and what d,
we see and hear? An advance in til,
great staple OF pork better feeling il
the great commodity of iron an extrava
CANT price for potatoes fair price fo
wheat, and a price for apples, corn and
beef in keeping with the supply an activ,
demand for the product OF the forest iron
railroad ties to barrel hoops; now an,
then the purchase of home and the sal
nf lot: and certainly general fitness @
prices to the supply and demand Of every
thing regardless Of John Sherman or tn
! crOnkcrs.
Iarn over the files Of the BEE for Janu
airy and February; aud there appears nj
increase in the advertisements for lnborer,
and ON the streets of mornings more labor
er' are seen going to their chosen work
Mayor Jones said in his speech ut an i'm
promtu reception at the Produce Exchange
that class OF our laborers had been EN-
ploye'l five days per week in the year the
closing M against two days per week 70
the year previous. Turn over the lies u
the BEE for the same months for the re-,
ord OF commercial failures. and the i'm
provement is marked. Go ont on til
western prairies aud an unprecedented IL
crease In the number OF new homes wi
greet YOU. Listen to the eastern wind
and we hear the hum Of more spindlr
the ring OF more hammers and the qmicl
ening tread OF domestic and foreign com
merce.
FULL RECORD.
Give us an impartial record Of eac
days events, not emitting Il single busines
i'llure. But don't trample down The ter
der violets Of spring because there ar
snow drifts in the woods, and don't shak
"o"recrOws at the robins because there ar
no leaves on the trees. Don't be the orga
of party OF croakers, who charge commo
stomach-aches To legislation aud job
sherman, and whose political life depend
on discarling all individual virtues an
vices in seeking the cause aud cure of IL
divldnal misfortunes. Don't blindiol
your vision Of the Frightening outlook G
business ~ the Democracy did their visio
OF the future when they denied the ussfu
ness OF the negro in freedom aud vowe,
at Chicago, that the war for the Unio
was a failure. CHARLES EATON.
Toledo, March Is, 1879.
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