Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-08-05

The Philadelphia Press of Thursday
contains long article on the present fnan-
cial condition of the government, and in
view of the large appropriations by Con-
eress, amounting to more than eighty mil
lions for this year, says:
"The facts herein set forth sufficiently in
dicate that something must be done to increase
the Federal revenues, at the earliest moment;
and in taking this unavoidable remedial step,
it is no less clear that the most liberal encour-
agement should be extended to American in
dustry. Not only is the Government rush
ing into bankruptcy, with no hope of speedy
change for the betterby the natural course of
events, but in every part of our State and
country labor is unemployed, and almost in
despair. A recent visit to the interior of
Pennsylvania has convinced us that the worst
accounts of destitution among the sons of
toll have not been exaggerated. The best
hands can be had at fifty cents day in the
harvest field, and those who last year easily
earned dollar and half per diem are now
glad to work for one third the amount
Meanwhile, in the departments of skilled la
Dor everything is dull. Manufacturers are
compelled to reduce their force or to suspend
operations entirely. Furnaces are closed,
forges stand still, the coal trade is stagnated,
and general apathy prevails Those who
have capital refuse to invest it until some
thing is done to stimulate business. Those
who have no capital are in the greatest un-
certainty as to the future.
"We do not stop to canvass the causes of
this condition of things The necessity is
imminent and immediate; and should be met
by instant action. We know that the theory
of individual enterprise, in all such cases as
the present, is generally the best. Govern
ment cannot be expected to provide every
man livelihood. But an extreme and ex-
ceptlonal case like the present requires ex-
ceptional and vigorous action. Our people
have passed through n year of unexampled
suffering. Great fortunes have melted away
in an hour, and the rich man of yesterday is
to day abject and poor. A system of the
most stringent economy has failed to relieve
the public distress. Millions are in need of
work (and that is bread) who have always
been economical and never wasteful There
seems to Us but way to awaken the dor
mant energies Of our people and to quicken
the sluggish vitalities Of trade. The Govern
ment wants money to conduct It's operations
and to pay its debts. Let this be raised by
such revenue law as will extend the am
plest encouragement TO manufactures, and
thus attract capital once more from its hiding
places, and feed the thousands who at this
moment barely contrive to exc out misera-
BILE existence. 1t is to be regretted that the
President did not, last December, anticipate
the present extraordinary condition of the
public finances by reiterating in his message
his cherished views on the general subject of
incidental protection but the time is at hand
when action is demanded by the people, and
ought to be, and will be, granted by their
servants"
If Forney expects to get any protection
out of the Buchanans, Biglers, Jones's,
Whites, Ahls and others who figured so
conspicuously in attempts to make Kansas
a slave state, he will find himself mistaken
The only way to obtain FAIR AND PERMA-
NENT PROTECTION for the iron and other
manufacturing interests of Pennsylvania,
is to elect men holding such views and leav-
ing all doughfaces at home.