Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-14
COL, JESSE HARPER
Writes of the Signs of the Times
Plain Talk from a Veter-


an
Editor State Standard; |
How dark these days are!--the dark
est the Republic ever saw. Business |
more depressed and the danger great
er.
The people do not realize that many |
of the signs 50 apparent are signs OF
death.
There must be y change or the Re
public will perish.
The fearful explosion, like that which
shook the Parliament House in England
are resutsl
The cause must be found and rcmoy-
ed.
These things are not the result of the
oyer-happiness OF the people, but their
misery.
Happiness does not develop into such
scenes. If it did, heaven, Uhu place of
happiness) would be blown up.
No, no.
The devllsh wrongs OF mis-states-
manship, of class diStinctions,of robber
laws, have well nigh turned earth into
hell.
Strong governments are not those
sustained by armies and nayies.
No.
But the strength of n government
consists in the love Of its people.
Oppression of people, by its govern
ment, in bad policies, bad laws, cor
rupt rules, aid in the death Of goyernI
ment.
The Republic is going that way,
Signs of dissolution are all around
MS.
The robberics by law in the last twen-
ty years surpasS everything in the his
tory of the human race.
Two hundred million acres of land
robbed from the living and the children
unborn. is crime that will conSi IN all
who aided in it to level with Judas
Iscariot Benedict Arnold and the Dey-
il.
The year 1891 was Gods best year -
the largest crop of wheat, cOrn,hay po'
tatoes Ne, ever known, and yet thai
wear was the most disastrous TO bust
ness ever known.
Look at this
During the first twenty one days o
1885 there were more failures in busi
ness in the United States, than ther,
were during the three years of 1864, g.
'66;theSc years make one thousand ant
ninety-liye days.
And upon such showing the Rcpub
licans say, 1--WE have saved the coun
try"
And the hungry mawcd Democrac.
cry amen
These old hulks, loaded with sin, GOV
cred with shame and wreaking with III
gotten gains, are as like rs two blnI
pups of the same litter.
On the railroad question.
On the telegraph question.
On the land question.
On the bond (debD question.
On the bank (of issuc) question
On these questions they are two arm,
corps of the tyrant, Money Power.
Those who are starving to-day ca
point to them and say:
"You did it.
The broken business of the countr
can point to them and say:
you did it,"
The finger of doom points to ther
and cries over dying Republic;
"You did it.
Our prisons, jails, poor houses, ain
houses and asylums all full,
Two million workers out of emplo!
ment.
More of Gods bountiful gifts in stor
than was ever known--and yet the d,
ing from want the greatest,
The list of suffering, in the midst, ,
plenty, the greatest
The dangers almost infinite.
All Christendom trembling.
The world in awe
The earth in its material forces rocl
ing like ship nj sea. .
And from the president Of the Repni
lie, sin buff brcCchcs, down TO Snillc
postmaster at Lickskilet, there com,
one great cry;
"Oyerproduction!'
Brothers, at such time rs this. Sh q
men who, for eight years have stoc
amid the jeers Of fools and the ours,
OF knaves, stop now9
God forbid!
No! thousand times no,
We must 60 forward.
OF the National Greenback party, Il
people-the suffering, misled, deceive
people, demand more heroic SERVE
than it has ever given TO the countr
Shall the expectations of the sorrowin
be disappointed?
By the God of our patriots, No!
JESSE HARPER,