The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

Mr. EDITOR: begin to think al
most as my old Federal father did in
1851, that lit was a mistake that we
ever came out from under the British
that the theories of JEFF,
ferson, whom he hated most cordially |
all his life, Were delusiOn and a
snare and that instead of listening to
the sympathetic cries of the tenants
of Ireland, and the poor everywhere,
we should be calling upon them for
pity and commiseratioD. Though not |
quite as low and needy yet as in other
lands, farmers and laborers have lost
more of what belongs to them in the
last thirty years than the same classes
ever did before in thousand years
The historian Davis has said the Chi
nese were the best fed, the best
clothed and the best housed" people
on earth. They are, however, slaves,
and always have been, and are suited
with their condition. But if we can
not compare with the Chinese as to
the best food. clothing, &c, we will
unhesitatingly claim and insist that
we are the BEST MoRTGAGED. And
should the almon eyed oriental reply
that this was the result of circumstan.
ces accidentally and unwisely permit
ted in our early organization aud set
Element, we could willingly concede
the fact, and claim that we are correct
ing it as fast as possible. Through
debts and mortgages, in few years
more the land will have passed into
the clutches of the few, and we shall
be as though our domain had been par
celled out into lordships in the first
place.
It is hence that labor loses the large
rich continent il acquired only short
time ago. 1t was permitted to take it,
and encouraged TO improve it, to toll
aud sweat and bind the EXTREMIST
ends with iron bands and telegraph
signals. Labor has been allowed to
hold deeds of it all, and record them,
and call all this its own. But insidu
ous taxes, alluring usury, and hatter
ing indulgences have bred a race o.
counter-deeds, called mortgages in ii
nance, (but uncompounded, in English
the word means deathgrips). These
end in Sheriffs deeds to the rich. or tt
capital and the American laborer. o.
farmer, becomes like the toiler in every
other country.
All that was gained by the Revolu
ton will be lost. The bulwarks o
Jeffersonian economy, simplicity, in
depreciation and reservation will b.
broken down, and Hamilton's demant
that 1.-THE rich and well born shal
have a permanent share in the gov
ernment" will be realized. 1t is il
fact already realized. The paIers ar
filed. Augustus was A. years empero
of the Roman world, before he assum
ed the purple insignia of his office
Yes, pet the sick babies, the banker
and bondholders. Pension their serv
ants aud slaves. Protect them VIII
never knew what it is to dig, hamme
or spin. Give them robes and dia
monds, and gold, and sumptuous liv
ing. Give them beds of lengthene'
ease; but shorten not the hours @
labor to him or her who works the sol
or tolls at the crops that enrich tn
royal governmental infants As Jaco
did scare the hungry and embarrasse
to sell their birthright. Fill up th
old and raise new armies. garrison tn
cities, railroad stations, and telegraph
wires adjust the limit between labo
aud idleness, and say how many mus
work ON this side the line, and no,
many may play on that. This is NJ,
the mission of American statesman
ship. Would 1t could be said that al
the missionaries devoted to these pur
poses We're exclusively found in tn
so-called Republican party.
What did England's poet meal
: when he wrote this:
" Thousands of voices drowning his own in
popular torrent of lies upon lies.''
And this:
Thraldom who walks with the banner of free
dom
And recks not to ruin realm in her name"
: And this:
Shall weep if an infant civilization be rule
with rod or knout?''
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