Show written MIN f for this pap paper THE VAN WINKLE OF STATES ohio nov ohio obio Is a great state not that it has very great cities nor to it specially remarkable marx able in any one line but bat there thereto to an all round completeness and compre pensiveness that give one a sense of its greatness as aa he be travels over the buckeye commonwealth it is great in manufacture we find as we hunt bunt up its statistics but ceen from oar car windows it is its vast agricultural extent and resources that give it the claim of greatness hour after hour the train speeds along and for a whole day a magnificent panorama is spread out to the beholder hill bill and dale upland and valley green fields and woodlands modern houses and antiquated residences cattle and horses sheep in small email flocks arousing bro using almost everywhere withal ohio does nut not seem to bo be crowded in fact there seems a want of oneo annot drive away tho impression that the people are lonesome or that they would necea feel isolated if they have a keen social sensibility utah with her little towns and villages looks more and companionable ohio under the genial glow of a november indian summer sun seemed to be dozing in a rip van winkle slumber nobody seemed to be in a hurry burry the cows and horses and pigs looked to be genuinely lazy the dogs doga did not have the energy to set up a bark the chil dren were walking home from school without a tag or a tussle the very air and the mellow sunlight seemed charged with languor A vision of peace and rest and quiet hung bung over the fleeting landscape and only the many and bright colored leaves of autumn spoke the full gladness of the lovely scene onward sped the ponderous train multiplying a thousand times time every severy hour these lovely visions of an immense agricultural domain and when I 1 paused at this quiet hamlet of my boyhood but little changed for more than a generation and walked the hills and strode through the deep leafy recesses of the woods how full seemed we the atmosphere of the precious memories of days long vanished into the pasil but the memories of childhood have their highest value in the awakening of deeper thought feelings that scarce define themselves in consciousness yet they tell us of a childhood farther away and remoter moter re or perchance nearer more comprehensive and real a childhood that hushes the soul in a sense of infinite and eternal existence long ore ere ebe stars raised their voices in song or worlds were fashioned iu in space from the childhood me memories morits ot of the natural life hie atin but a step into the infinite silence where we can hear bear these cradle songs of the eternal and imperishable life but ohio has done one thing which in her sleepy way she thinks casdone was done while she was fully awake she has baa bad an election mckinley and neal stumped the state but only a few people comparatively went out to hear them there were lots of stay at home dom democrats horats and there were about eighty thousand more go to the polle polla republicans and the result is that mckinley Mo Kinley is booked for 96 every ohio republican thinks he will get there 1 I tried to find fl nd out what the people were thinking about when they voted for one man or the other I 1 was pleased and almost surprised to know that the silver question did not hot cut any figure at all neither side bide in a general way knows anything about the silver question the fact is the average ohio voter is not very well posted on any political question As far as I 1 could gather information I 1 am of opinion that the people of utah 17 tab in one or two more canvasses wi will I 1 have more political intelligence that than the people of ohio the republican boom in ohio is just a blind striking out against hard times the farmers get but little for their crops the laboring people are largely out of work kneir belief to is that the party in power are responsible and they cast their ballots against the prevailing policy the sheep men iu in ohio are very numerous anu and they are going to be eternal kickers against the free wool policy the working people believe that flat a restoration of leys issue will reopen re open their workshops JS no 0 one whether democrat or republican seems to know much about the money question the farmers are all unconscious of the fact thit that low priced crops and low priced silver have in their downfall a common cause the republicans are ignorant enough to 10 suppose that nothing to is necessary in k order to have prosperity but protection they shout for mckinley Mo Kinley and wear swear by john bherman yh erman the democrats show equal ignorance by believing that the money power exerts its deleterious influence chiefly or exclusively through tariff taxation it lie is hard bard to conjecture how these ohio people are going to be enlightened and undeceived it if one talks with the farmers they will all say that they believe in silver but they have no knowledge of the effects of they have no idea of the economic law jaw which reduces prices in proportion to the shrinkage of the volume of real money sherman bherman and company have a an n easy task to deceive them and keep them deceived the people are naturally na tur conservative and new ideas take root slowly if a hundred able silver men could canvass the state for three months and talk to the people they might be waked up and educated but nothing less leas would seem to be adequate the newspapers generally are of poor quality even in the larger towns so bo far as they are party papers they simply cun with the party machine and speak what the party leaders dictate one would be surprised at the lack of independent and intelligent thought in the average ohio newspaper of course it should be understood that ia making the criticisms that I 1 herein record I 1 speak with the freedom of one born and bred on ohio soil the wounds of a friend are faithful and it is in with deep regret that I 1 see eee the masses of the people of a noble state hold held in the tolls of a monetary and financial policy which foreboder forebodes fore bodea bodes a slavery and a despotism more withering and benumbing than that which weighed upon the benighted african race io in tills this country for halt half a century there is one hope that is not likely to fall fail that is when people have suffered ered long and tried many expedients in order to ret get relief they will finally find out the cause of their troubles and go about the remedy with a vengeance and if the money classes succeed in controlling the country a few years longer the remedy will come quick and sharp for the people will be in earnest ear neat C B R |