The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-08-26
Nasty.

PErTUsyuLR,
(Wich Il Ia the Statute nv Ohio, }
Aug. 3. 1879.

felt il my dooiy 10 heed the Mase-
donian cry wich the Dimocrisy NV Ohio
yelped, "Kum over aud help usl" and
| went, 10 do little misunery work in
the Suthern part NV the State, for that
'possel nv unlimited money, that har-
binger nv good times, Genl Ewing. L
wish wuz back in the Corners, and
shel git there iist ez soon ez the Sen
tral Committy let's me leeve tins most
thoroughly discouragin kentry.
Ef the rest NV the State is anything
like this seckshuD. Ohio is gone up
Room is before Ohio, and the State is
drivin full tilt onto IT,
L met with no success at all, wich
wuz not my fault, ez the condishns are
agin me. | wuz never so disappintid
in my life, and hope never TO be so
agin.
expected to find people ready TO
receive Dimecratic doctrine. 1expect-
ed to find n distrest kentry filled with
farmers bemoanin the hard times, and
mechanics layin idle, with their fami-
lies staryin. / expected TO find a shoe
lis, hatlis, coatlis community nv serfs.
wich had bin ground down by the
money power till they wood be willin
to receive any promis nv change with
with Joy and gladnis. L expected to
see factrys silent and farms desertid,
shops shet up, and only nashnel banks
and sich. open. i expected to find pale
men, weak-eyed with hunger, and pale
faced, desparin wimmen, staryin their
selves that they mite keep life into their
angel babes.
he'd bin reedin Dimecratic papers,
700 see. about the people bein ground
under foot, aud / hied me to Ohio with
the most Joyous antissipashens.
When strnck Pettusyllle it occurred
TO me that / must hev got into the
wrong locality. | arrived in the mite.
notist the landlord uvthe hotel weigh
cd snthing over two hundred, and his
wife wuz suthin heavier, but that didn't
affect me. In all strikly Dimecratic To-
calitics landlords git fat, no matter
who else grove lean, wich they giner-
ally do. | turned in and Rugged the
ldee 10 my buzm that | shood hey easy
work to do in that place.
The fust thing / notist in the moInin
wuZ string NV teens a mile long,
more or less, watin TO onload wheat at
the warehouse on the ralerode. The
men onto the loads wuz about ez hale
and harty set nv fellers ez ! ever
seed. They wuzn't pale nor wan, nor
nuthin. They wnz hefty specimens,
and lookt ez tho they he'd he'd three
square meals dak all their lives.
70 my horror noticed that the shops
wuz all open and the mechanics all
very hard at work, aud that the three
factories in the town he'd torronts NV
smoke bilin out nv their chimheys.
Bein entirely shoor that he'd bin
sent TO the rite place, in spite NV these
discouragin appearances, | approached a
farmer wich he'd sold his load and wuz
iist a goin into bank with his wife.
MY friend, sed /, "yoo are vic
tim nv the money power
Wat" wuz his reply, lookin ez tho
he thot | wuZ a escaped loonatic.
''Yoo are a serf, bondman, and are
held in the iron grip nv the bloatid
bond-holders, wich is a squeezin the
life blood ont NV 700.
''Is they?" sed he. 81 never thot NV
that. But | kin beet um. really
haven't time 10 discuss the matter, for,
you see, I'm goin TO be bonded bloat-
holder myself. / hev jist sold my
wheat, and I'm list going to buy bond
or two. / want to be a aristocracy my
self a while"
And he elooded me, leevin a button
IN my hand.
Repeatin the same remark 10 anoth-
or, he merely remarkt, 30, git out, 700
asst Wheat 30 bushels TO the acre and
a dollar bushel, gold. / want great
many more years nv this kind nv room.
Where 700 frum, anyway"
Abandonin the farmers in disgust,
for / got the same answer from all NV
EN-, | attempted to git in my work on
the distrest mechanics wich must have
bin rooined by resumpshen, but my
success wuzn't any better. / don't
know but Good hev convinst EN- that
they wuz all rooined ef / he'd he'd a
fair show, but the alarmin fact wuz
they wuz all too bizzy to listen TO me.
for 1t happened to be payday. Every
man NV em went out NV the offs with
bis money in full, aud every man nv
EN- declined to hear word sed.
II wuz in vane I urged that they wuz
Serfs, il wuz in vane told EN- they
wuz bein ground into the dust by the
nashnel hanks, il wuz in vain told EN-
resumpshen wood be their room, for
every cussid one nv EN- filed past me
and went and depositid their spare
earnings in one nv these octopusses,
the nashnel bank OF the place.
i cant understand what Ewing sent
me 10 sich place fur, and telegraph
cd him. The Dimercratic Sentral Com
nifty ansered
"Hold on a while heavy frost may
come IN August aud kill the corn, and
fetch EN- 10 their senses. Then they
will know what Sherman has done for
EN-. Suthin must be left TO Provi-
dence
And 80 ! am sitting in the tavern,
watohin the thermometer. IL is a corn
kentry, and the farmery depend upon
that crop for the helf nv their profits
Ef the Lord wood only take pity on
the Dimocrisy aud send a heavy frost,
regular black frost. this month. |
shood hev some show. IL wood derange
things aud tear mp matter TO sich an
extent that il wood give us a chance. 90
But then the wheat crop was so heavy
that ] am not shOor that even the tOtle
destrucshen NV tue corn crop wood
save MS. The hog cholera cant come
soon emf, aud ez for cattle and horses
never seed EN- so disgustingly
healthy.
Still. | shell sit and watch the thcr-
mometor and cuss John Sherman. ez
the Seutral Committy direx. II is pos
sible that some destess may come mp
the kentry before October. tho really
see no encurridgin signs.
PETROLKUM V. NAsBY,
Distrest Finanscer.