Year: 1876

machinery to produce snch elegant and
artistic specimens, and l hope your ef-
forts to do that class of work will be
properly appreciated by the Cantonians,


/ have just arrived here from New
York and am about to have busy time of
it. The country is very dull, and in New
York they have got a peeler, Real es-
tate has got black eye, and the shrink
age of that one article of trade and COM
merce has been about fifty per cent. Still
we are shaving too much money" and l
firmly believe if an immense gold mine
were to be discovered and which would
yield a thousand. millions of gold at once,
our noble and a lie fnanciers, and cur.
rency tinkers, and the majority of intelli-
gent machines who voted in Cleveland,
Toledo, Cincinnati and Columbus, would
vote for the immediate stoppage of the
mine as it would initiate and give us fc-
titious values to our real estate, and then
1--WE have too much money already"


l regret the troubles in Canton and the
failure of the safe works There was no
good reason for it, for there is "plenty OF
money in the country" in fact too much,
and they might as well have had it as
not. There was Just enough men thrown
out of employment in Cleveland, and
other places in Ohio, to have carried the
last Ohio election, which would of course
have given our representatives some en-
couragement to work and in some man
ner saved our country from the ruin to
which it is going at a rate more rapid
than the new-fangled white mail train,
which is run at the expense of the peo-
pie for the express benefit of New York
dailies who receive the advantages of a
wider ard earlier circulation, the price
paid them for nursing and strangling the
rag baby" Before the people get
through with the corpse they will wish
many times that the child might have
had its career of usefulness.


/ notice the great firm of John M. Ste
phenson, omnibus and street car build
ers of New York, with assets of over
eight hundred thousand dollars, pulled
down their blinds" last week for the pal
try liabilities of one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars. Yet every knowing
rooster in the country before the last
election cackled, "too much moneyw and
that "money went begging at three per
cent. in New York;!


The failures are thick and fast in Goth
am, and money cannot be had for love or
blood, and gilt-edge paper in New York.
(No goodl,


In that narrow street known as Wall


Money plenty, to be had on call,


But Summer roses fade and fall,


Alas!


Election is sover, and thick and fast


Rumors of failures are rushing past


Solid men going, and stand aghast,


Alas


Millionaires, saving banks give up the ghost,


Manufacturers reckon without their host


To them We'll drink our regular toast


The next election, oh won't we roast,"


The fellows that spanked our baby


Failures are everywhere, and even the
solid town of Boston is getting its dose.
But enough; the bust-ups are sufficient
food for reflection, and the man who says
we have got too much money, in the Ian
guage of that highly respected fossil,
General Dix, should be shot upon the
spot, 1t is really funny to read some of
the subsidized dailies, and Government
pap organs, whose signs of early decay
are as plain as the scarcity of money. If
it were not for crooked whisky wicked
ness and an occasional Postoffice thrown
in, some of those terribly in earnest
jackalls and travelling U. o. A. fraud lec-
turers, would be soliciting aims, or enjoy
ing the Taxpayers unwilling benevo-
lence in county poor houses, instead of
publishing Ku-Klux outrages, Anderson
vile prison horrors, or the skeleton of a
nightmare called a division of school
funds, and religious meddling with pub
lie institutions, in order to divert atten-
ton from the annual stealing and swim
ding the Government of from twenty
five to forty millions of dollars, and the
twenty-five millions in taxes yearly
squeezed out of the people for the Ma
tional Bank Bond cheat. What an ele-
CANT exhibition of roguery, and the re-
duction of thieving to art, in the fact re-
Gently made known, that it would cost
seventy-fye thousand dsllars to print the
names and amounts stolen from the Gov
ernment within the past fifteen years.
The paper used in printing alone would
weigh twenty tons, and would require
nearly one hundred horses to draw it |
Can any one wonder what is the matter
with the country Iheard a prominent
business man remark the other day in
New York IA Republican, that taxes are
eating us up, and if a man was out of
debt and in good health he was rich. A
few years more of the double-tongued,
smooth faced, canting, designing, hypo-
critical knavery, will wind up business
generally in the country.


The Centennial bore is busy in getting
its hooks into the treasury. Only three
and half millions are asked to aid the
mammoth Philadelphia side show gotten
up expressly to benefit its financial board
Of hungry hash-house proprietors, hotel
keepers, street railways, hack drivers,
and small shop-keepers; also to reward
Philadelphia for its magnificent and
never-failing repeating system, which
has 80 truly and Loyalty sustained the Re-
publican thieves, and heightened their
stay and aided their pilgrimage, and
heaped outrages, public debt and taxes
upon the people. Let us all Centennial
at home. No subsidy-no Centennial
side show swindle, but for honesty, res
toration of confidence, revival of busi-
ness, light taxes, good government and
honest Democratic. administration, let
us pray.


l cannot close without congratulating
you upon the appearance of the paper
and the interesting reading matter that
each week fills the columns of the DEMO-
Graf. am proud to mention this fact,
and wuold further add, that l consider