The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-08-21

PETTCsvILLE,
WICH Is IN THE STATE Wv ONO,
Orgust S, 1879.
felt it my dooty to heed the Macedonian cry
witch the Dimocrisy NV Ohio yelped, "Kum over
and help us ~ and went, to do little mishun-
airy work in the suthern part nv the State, for
that possel nv onlimitd money, that harbinger
nv good times, Gineral Ewin. l wish l wuz
back in the Corners, aud shell git Their jist ~
soon ez the Sentrel Committy lets me leeve this
most thoroly discuragin kentry.
Ell the rest nv the State is anything like this
seckshun, Ohio is gone up. Room is before Ohio,
and the State is trivin full tilt onto it.
met with no sucksess at all, wich WIZ not
my fault, the con,lis.lns are agin me. WIZ
never go disarpiniid IN my life, and hope never
to lie agiu.
expected to find people reddy to receive
Dinekratic doctrine. l expected to find dis
trest kentry, filed with farmers bemoanin the
hard times, and mechanics layin idle, with ther
families starvin. expectid to find q shooli 8,
hatlis coatiis cOinmOOnity nv serfs, wich he'd
bin ground down by the money power, till they
wood be within to reserve any promis nv change
with joy and gladnis. 1 expected to see factrys
silent and farms ,leserti, shops shet up, and
only nashnel banks and sich opan. l expected
to find pale men, week eyed with hunger, and
ale-faced. desparin wimmen, starvin themselves
that they mite keep life into Their angel babes.
he'd bin reedin Dimekratic papers, 700 see,
about the people bein ground under foot and
hed me to Ohio with the most joyous antissipa-
shens.
When struck Pettusville, it okkured to mo
that l must hev got into the rOng locality.
arrived in the mite, and notist the landlord nv
the hotel wade suthiD over two hundred, and
his wife wuz suthin hevier, but that didn't az
feet me. In all strikly Dimekratic local. ties,
landlords grow fat, no matter who else grows
leen, wich they gnrally do. l turned in, and
Rugged the ijee to my buzum that shood hev
eezy work to do in that place.
The fust thing I notist i'm tha r.,ornin uuz a
string NV teens mile long, more or less, waitin
to onlOad wheat at the warehouse on the rale
rode. The men onto the lodes wnz about ez hale
and harty set Nv fellers ez 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 meels day all Their lives.
10 my horror, Dotist that the shops wuz all
open, and the mechanics all very hard at work,
and that the three factries il the town he'd tor.
rents NV smoke bilin out NV Their chimblys
Bein entirely shoor that he'd been sent to
the right place, in spite these discuragn ap-
peerances approached farmer witch he sold
his lode, and wuz jist goin into bank with
his wife.
my frcnd," sed I, "yoo are victim nv the
money power"
"Wat" WIZ his reply, lookin ez tho he tlat
WIZ a escaped loonaiic.
"ioo are a serf, b"niman, aud are held ia
the iron grip NV the blntil bo,nlhol.lrrs, witch is
a squeezin the life bud out NV yuo"
as they r. s-d he. Il never thnt NV that Bat
kin beet EN-. l RELY haven't time to dskuss
the matter, for, yoo see, Pm goin To be a bondid
bloatholaler myself. / bev Just sold my wheat,
and l'm Just goin in to buy bond or two.
want to be a aIisioeracy myself awhile"
And he elOo,lid me, leevin a button into my
hand.
Repeetin the same remark to another one, Q
meerly remarkt: 20, git ont, 700 ass Wheat
thirty bushels to the aker, and dollar bushel,
gold. l want CRATE many yeers more nv tn is
kind nv rooin. Wher yoo frum, anyway
Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for got
the the same anser from all NV EN-, l attempted
to git in my work onto the dstrest mechanics,
witch must hev BIN rooned by resumpshen, but
my sncksess wuzn't any better. don't know
but Good hev convinst EN- that they wuz all
roOned, ef he'd he'd fare show, but the alarm
in fact wuz, that they wuz all too bizzy to lissen
to me, for it happened to be pay day. Evry man
NV EN- went ont nv the offs with his money in
full, and evry man en- deklined to heer q
word sed.
twuz in vane urged that they wuz serfs
1t wuz in vane that told EN- they wuz bein
ground into dust by the nashnel. banks; it wuz
IN vane told EN- resumpshen wood be Their roo
IN Tor evry cussid one nv en- filed past me,
and went and deposited Their spare ernins in
nv those cussid octopusscs, the nsshnel bank nv
the place.
l can't understand wat Ewin sent me to sich
place fur, and l telcgrafcd him. The Dime
kratic Sentrel Community ansered:
"Hoid on awhile. A hevy frost may come in
Orgust, and kill the corn, and fetch EN- to Their
senses. Then they will know wat Sherman
hez dun for EN-. Suthin must be left to Provi-
dence."
And SO am settin in the tavern watchin the
Thermometer. 1t is a corn kentry, and the farm
ers depend upon that crop for the heft nv Their
profits. Eff the Lord wood only take pity onto
the Dimocrisy, and send hevy frost, a reglar
black frost, this mouth, shood hev sum show.
II wood derauge things, and tarc up matters to
SIGH a extent, that it wood give us chance.
But then the wheat crop wuz 50 hevy, that
am not shoor that even the totle destruckshen
NV the corn crop wood save The hog koera
can't cum soon enuf, aud ez fur the cattel and
HOSES, l hev never seed EN- 50 very disgustinly
helthy.
Still, / shell set aud watch the thermometer,
and cuss John Sherman, ez the Sentrel Commit
ty direx. 1t is possible that sum distress may
cum to the kentry before October, tho RELY