The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-26

the sweeping out of existence of the
means Of livelihood of more than 10000,
families directly dependent on these in
dustries, and twice as many more who
would indirectly be almost as seriously
injured in their business by the passage
of such a measure.
1t would empty 1900 business houses
of tenants, and lessen the rents on twice
or thrice AS many more. 1t is our fixed
conviction that the income of capital
lists in cities and large towns of the
State from rentable business houses
would fall in thirty days from the pas
sage and enforcement of prOhibitOry
laws fully one fourth, 1t is our
belief, it would check the i'm
prOYement of cities and towns enOrm-
Ously and that 1t would arrest instantly
1t would paralize nearly every branch
of trade; il would throw tens of thOus-
ands Of wOrkmen out of business and
crowd every avenue Of manufacture
with idle men. 1t would injure, if not
destroy, the business of industrious
cOOpers; it would strike a crushing blow
to the blacksmith, the wagon makers,
the cOppeTsmiths, the ice trade, the har-
ness makers. 1t would stop the sale in
the State of over six million bushels &c
barley annually and many millions
than 100000 pounds of hops. Who
would make good these losses to our
farmers for the sudden drop in the
market price of the products Of their
farmsp Who would lind employment
for this army of idle men, or who would
come forward willingly to pay the taxes
needed for supporting the vast increase
in our paupers that such social up
heaVal would inevitably producer Would
you, OF you, or your
If barley could not be matted and
bTewed it would be no more valuable to
feed stock than corn. If corn could not
be distilled it would have to fatten pork.
III pork is raised In excess of the de-
mands of our people for consumption
its price would decline to unremuneTa-
tive rates. If our farmer. who now
from the surplus of their crops, can ed
ucdte their sons and daughters, and
clOthe them in silks and fine clothes,
could not sell their pork, barley and
corn and cattle except at less than it
cost them to produce these articles, they
could buy no silks nor broad cloths, nor
books nor pianos. Their daughters
would, therefore, be compelled to spin
and weave the hOmespun flannels and
butternut kerseys of Olden times, and
the fathers to toll wearily to mill with
the divided bag of grist laid across the
plOw horse, and live fTugally every day.
Finally, we ask the honest yeOmanry
of this great, liberal and enlightened
state, is it wise to turn back the dial on
the face of the clock, to forget the prog
Tess of enlightenment written on the
pages of the century, and go back to
the bigOtry of the middle ages, to an as
cetism not dreamed of even by monks in
medieVal times, for the purpose of
humOring the weak sentiment
ality of class of social
as we'll as religious bigOts, who
violate the laws of nature and falsify
even the Sacred Scriptures to trample
social and political freedom under foot ?
We say emphatically, NO! NONNOll!
We must defeat these amendments;
we must arouse and awaken the people
we must argue and eXhOrt, and print
| papers and pamphlets, and we must
| stand at the polls on the 9th of October
| next, and see that as many of the ballots
as possible that are deposited in the
boxes are inscribed mo" to both the
first and second proposed Constitution
al Amendments.
Remember, brethren, that Eternal
vigilance Is the price Of Liberty" and
that Providence helps only those who
help themselves"
The Republican party is responsible
for the attempt to saddle these unjust
measures upon the people of Ohio. De-
feat both the amendments and the party
that invented them, and your right will
| be safe.
AN INDEPENDENT CITIZEN.