Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-01-10
OUR COUNTRY-HTs PERIL,

There is more or less Of peril in. the FORM
alton of rings. AT one time Wall street
affected the currency at the rate OF twenty
five and thirty per cent. or more. Lobby
lists have often controlled the action Of Con-
gress. Not only cotton, gold, railroad
board OF trade, wheat, corn, cattle and
other special rings of this kind, but gran
gers, bankers, masons, odd fellows, churches,
all secret and open monopolies whatever,
need to be kept within moderate bounds
lest they either check or pervert the action
Of government in the formation or execu-
tion OF impartial laws. If the Jesuits wish
to elect Jesuits who will try to exalt mother
church above the State they should fare at
the hands OF all patriots the same as Meth.
odists or any other sect who try TO elect
State officers for church purposes. 1t is
becoming serious question whether the
people ought to tolerate the too common
decisions Of the country in regard to Grim
inals. Any government is worse than use
less that let's thieves and murderers 20
abroad. No one can have very much re-.
spect for courts OF justice however punctil-
lious they may be about the forms OF law
or the tecnicalities Of the statute book if
they do not arrest and duly punish the
guilty. No community can be safe unles
the "powers that be" become a terror to
evil doers. Ought the people to applaud
the hero at the bar who by the dint of his
eloquence and legal assurance leads the
ipry to bring In the verdict-"Not guilty"
when everybody knows that the prisoner
OIL trial ought to be hanged?
We can never hope to see the day when
our country will be secure unless it main.
tains the rights of the people. No one will
ever bow to the majesty of the law from
which no benefit is received. When any
man can say my country never did me
solitary favor, every spark of his patriot
ism dies out. The traitor says my country
neglected and wronged me. Thieves, vag-
abonds and murderers are robbIng or TAX
ing vengeance on somebody for real or fan
cied wrongs, Like the gambler who has
lost his stake, he says, have been fleeced !;
now l will take all | can get from the frat
victim | meet. Rebels will lay down their
arms just as soon as they feel assured that
government will redress their wrongs. Says
one, l can't get work. Government or
somebody's to blame. Ny wife and chill
dren can't starve. I'll steal first. I'll rob
a bank. don't care. I'll kill somebody
first. But you'll be hanged. don't care.
hate my country. There's no Justice or
mercy anywhere. Every ones for himself.
The one who can tell the most lies aud steal
on the largest scale is the best fellow. Tell
us about laws and courts. That's where
Judges get drunk and lawyers tell lies.
skin clients. send honest men 10 iail and
rascals to Congress. Just look at The
churches how they cut and cover the hid
ing places for Satan and his imps. The
masons won't help you, unless you ioin the
lodge and swear by all the gods above that
you will stick TO the fraternity through
mud and water, 'till the worlds burn np.
Then II at any time you break tho oath
you are doomed to be Stranglel TO death
by the devil and his angels. Those gold
and hog aud wheat rings. Miserable Shy
locks! They wonldn't give poor, stnrv-
ing man dollar or a piece Of pork, or a
busl,el u wheat 10 save his soul from pur-
gatoFy. Now what can Uncle Sam do even
u he wanted 10 ever so much? But | don't
belieys In Uncle Sam. Just see how he
treated The lndana aud. the Negroes aud
the Unlon Soldiers. lie prOmised--yes
he promised, aud thRl's all the good il did,
as everybody knows. Doynu suppose aud
my boys are going to pay taxes aud fight
for such a country? ri 90 to Africa first
and build hut among the hoiientOtS,
Now whoever said such things about Unole
Sam and his children must have had some
bitter feelings. But we are Obliged TO adj
nit there Is more truth in these and such
like utterancss than there ought to be or
need be. Nor.