Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-08-27
NASBY.
Hf. Nasty Takes . Little Turn Through
Ohio and Rep0rts.
From the Toledo (O.) Blade.

PETTUsvILLE (wich is in the state u
Ohio), August 8, 1871 felt it m
: dooty to heed the Macedonian cry vic
the Dinocrisy NV Ohio yelped, "Kuu
over and help us!" and I went, to do
little mishunary work in the suther,
part Nv the state, for that 'possel u,
. Unlimited money, that harbinger NV goot
times, Gen'l Ewing. wish wuz bacl
in the Corners, aud shel git there list e,
soon ez the sentral committy lets me
leeve this most thoroughly discouraein
kentry.
4 Eff the rest Nv the state ID anything
like this seckshun, Ohio is gone up
Room is before Ohio, and the state b
drivin full tilt onto Il.
/ met with no success at al, wich wuz
not my fault, ex the condishns are agin
me. l wuz never 20 disappinted in my
ife, and hope never to be 20 agin.
expected to find q people ready to
receive Dimercratic doctrine. expected
to find a distrest kentry filed with far
ners bemoanin the hard times, and
mechanics layin idle, with their families
starvin. l expected to find q shoelis,
hatlis, coatlis community of surfs wich
he'd bin ground down BY the money
9ower till they wood be willin to receive
Al: promis Nv . change with Joy and
gladls. / expected to see factrys silent
ana 1arhs desertid, shops shet up and snly
nasnnel De.ks and sich open. expectid
10 nnd pale nsn, weak with hunger, and
pale-faced, desPsrin wimen, starving
themselves that the, mite keep life into
their angel babes.
he'd bin readin Dims.cr.tic naner,
700 see, about the people Exn ground
under foot, and hied me to U.so With
the most joyous antisipashens.
When struck Pettusville it occur.~,
to me that must hev got into the wrong
locality. I arrived in the mite, and I
notist the landlord NV the hotel weighed
suthing over two hundred, and his wife
wuz suthin heavier, but that didn't af-
feet me. In all strickly Dimocratic
localities, landlords git fat, no matter
who else grows lean, which they gener-
ally do. turned in and hugged the idee
to my buzm that shood hev easy work
to do in that place.
The fust thing notist in the mornin
wuz a string Nv teens mile long, more
Va ACncS W0At1A w uAlO&4&4 WuC&t ~ WIG
warehouse on the ralerode. The men
onto the loads wux about ex hale and
harty q set NY fellers es ! ever seed.
They wuzn't pale nor wan, nor nothin.
They wuz hefty specimens, and lookt ez
tho they he'd he'd three square meals .
day all their lives.
To my horror l noticed that the shops
wuz all open and the mechanics all very
hard at work, and that the three factor
les in the town he'd torrents Nv smoke .
bilin out Nv their chimneys.
Bein entirely shoor that / he'd bin
sent to the rite place, in spite Nv these
discouraging appearances, approached 4
farmer wich he'd sold his load and wux
jist goin into q bank with his wife.
"My friend" sed l; "yoo are victim
Nv the money power!"
"Wat!" wuz his reply, lookin ez tho
he thot wux q escaped l0onatic.
"Yoo are a serf, bondman, and are
held in the iron grip Nv the bloatid
bond.holders, wich is squeezin the life
blood out Nv yoo."
els they7" sed he. "I never thought
Nv that. But I kin beet EN-. I really
haven't time to discuss the matter, for,
700 see, Pm goin to be q bonded bloat-
holder myself. Ihev jist sold my wheat,
and Pm jist goin in to buy bond or
two. l want to be aristocracy myself
a WHILE"
And he eloodid me, leevin button in
my hand.
Repeetin the same remark to anuther,
he merely remarkt, 20, git tout, 700 ass!
Wheat 80 bushels to the acre and dol
lar bushel, gold. / want great many
years more nv this kind Nv ro0in. Where
700 frum, anywayf"
Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for
I got the same anser frum all Nv EN-, !
attempted to git in nay work on the dis
trest mekanicks, which must hev bin
rooined by resumpahen, but my success
wuzn't eny better. ! don't know but /
Good hev convinst EN- that they wux al
rooined Of he'd he'd fair show, but the
alarmin fact wu1 they wuz all too bizxy
to listen to me, for 1t happened to BE-
pay day. Every man nv EN- went ont
Nv the offs with his money in full, and
every man nv em declined to hear .
word sed.
It wuz in vane I urged that they wus
serfs, it was in vane that told em they
wuz bein ground into the dust by the
naahnel banks; ii wuz in vane l told en-
resumption would be their ro0in, for
every cussid one of EN- filed past me and
went and depositid their spare earnings
in one Nv these cussid octopuAes, the
nashnel bank nv the place.
! can't understand what Ewing sent
me to sich place fur, and telegraphed
him. The Dimecratic Central c0mmity
answered:
"Hold on awhile. A heavy frost may
come in August and kill the corn,
and fetch em to their senses Then
they will know what Sherman has done
for em. 6uthin must b left to Provi-
dence."
And 20 I an ittin In the tavern,
watchin the Thermometer. II 10 corn
keutry, and tho farmers depend upon
that crop for the heft nv their profits.
Ef the Lord wood only take pity on the
Dimocrisy and send . heavy frost, .
regular black frost, this month, / shood
hev some show. 1t twood derange things
and tear up matters 70 sich an extent
that it wood give us chance. But then
the wheat crop was % heavy that I'm
mot shoor that even the tOtle dest1ucshen
Of the corn crop wood ave IA The hos
cholera can't como soon enu6, and 81 tor
cattle and horsea ! never seed en- % dis
gustinly healthy.
Still, ] shell sit and watch the thar.
mometer and cuss John sherman, e. the
Centyel commity direx. Il Il possible
that sopre distrem may come upon the
kcntry before October, tho RELY Isee ~
encurridgin sigma.
PETROLEUM v. NAaDY,
Distrest FinanseeS.
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Low Physical Feasibility.
In the curious histofios Of mallnger.
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