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The Sale of the Berkey Land by th* Sheriff—Whose Fanlt U it:If it in Berkey'e fault no body was to 1 blame for iu aale but Berkey If it was * the fault of some body else a wrong la done to Berkey, and to right thia wrong is ihe common duty of every good citizen I am not going to dieciiM the question at ieiue between Mr. Berkey and Mr. Karr. 1 Tbeae are aubaldiary minor questions, for 1 Karr may or may not hare promised ten 1 ‘ acre* to Berkey to have the *ale confirmed, 1 or Berkey may ,or may not hare accepted 1 such offer to allow the aala lo be confirmed. Let other? diacuM these probabilities. 1 1 am concerned only in the great political 1 queetion. Whether it waa Berker'e fault 1that hia land came to be aold by the Sher- 1 iff at all. If not hie fault, then whose 1fault ia it, or to what cause may ita aale be 1 justly and logically attributed.Berkey owned 320 acre* of very fair land eaat of Somerael one mile, with a fine house fand barn, and it was once paid for, and waa supposed by tba beat judgea of value, to at worth $20,000.The owner ii an exemplary man in hie habit* of eobriety, industry, economy and buaineaa prudence. Hi* fortune bad been acquired by hia own effort* »npporled by the care, economy, frugality, and lifelong assistance of hi* estimable wife, a sister the late Gen. Ritchey; an ex-member of Congreee from thi* part of Ohio.Berkey a income from wool and the product* of *o large a tract of land, conducted with his large experience and conceded intelligence a* a husbandman, juatified hia taking a life policy of $10,1)00 about eight years ago, which he ha* carried ever aince. Thi*, heavy as it ia to a poor man waa to him ao far from a burden a* to prove only a mean* of prudent earing of surplus mean*. His debts were never half equal to his farm and coal land.Now is it Berkey'* fault that hi* fnrm and coal lands will be swallowed up by the demand* of those wliu hold lees than $10,000 against him?la it his fault that hi* land* hare gone down 00 per cent1'1* it his fanlt that in his old age he is to he turned out of bouse and home and the . surplus earnings of a long and toilanme life are to be swallowed up? |It it Berkey* fault that he is lo be treat- 1 ed worse than an African slave, for the colored slave would be insured hi* board and clothing, have hie doctor hills paid, and his funeral expenses.I* it Berkey’* fault that hi* life time labor i* turned over lo a master, or to master* who never ea-ued one half of ii» No no!! It is not his fault.Tbs fault is in John Sheroiau'a and Charley Foster'* system of finance. Thia system first inflate*, and then contract* value*, and this system robs Iabur, grind* the face of the poor, despoils tbu many and «n-richs* the fi». Wsbetsr declared that it fertalized the field of capital with the sweat of labor. It is, therefore, a system of slavery, at odious, a* criminal, and a* defi- j ant of Heaven, and of equality, and of justice, as that system lately in arms against the Union, and will in due time wither under the vote* of freeman and the frowne of Christendom, a* crime and wrong wither and dia in the sunlight ef Truth. God help the Right. Justice.
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The Somerset Press
Somerset, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 14, 1879
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