The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-07-06

A nation cannot engage in life and death
struggle without disturbing the movements
OF business. This eject follows Of course:
Finance osciliates, trade falters. commerce
rests, marts are closed, markets are deserted.
ALI things feel the shock Of the convulsion.
The nation 10 struggling, not for progress.
and prosperity, bat for existence. Its throes
are not growing pains--,hey attend = ssrug-
gle for life. And are soldiers and saameu.
the volunteer defenders OF their country.
=And t@es+- ~.--s End mothers and children
to be the only sufferers from this WARP
Shall We expect to stay At home end eat good
dinners and make fine investments. and grow
rich, "a usual, while our country is vrest.
ling for lifer 10 the pangs or the BODY
politic every limb and member must expect
to sympathise. In the Offerings OF his
country every patriotic citizen will be willing
TO share. Business men and soldiers must
be heroes, alike, bearing bravely the evils
and burdens incident to a struggle for ma.
tionsl existence,
But war docs not paralyzs. Businesses
that are built on the artificial wants OF 80.
ciety may be interrupted, but trades which
minister to the real needs Of men will 60 on.
And war creates demands OF it's own. The
stream Of business NAV he turned into other
and rongher channels, but it is not dried up.
There 10 yet work enough to be done. The
nation must be fed and clad 40 ever, though
u be less snmrtuously. Three or four hun
dreo thousand men have been converted from
producers into consumers. The army will
make immense demands upon the products
OF labor, and business must be commissary.
general to the war.
There 10 no room now for idleness or dis.
enlargement. Let the farmer fl up his
gransrics. His products will sometime end
market, and his labor will sooner or later
be recompensed. Let every man turn hi.
hand to something. II you can't do wha
you like, do what you can. Don't stang
about the streets to whine, nor 20 home Il
smart. II you can't stand behind the coun
ter 10 broadcosb. you can drive a dray. II
you are not able to set mp az = grocer, MOI
to get business at your trade, you can 70 ou
and help the farmers gather their harvcsts
We have seen the hands OF a musician, wht
once earned bic yearly thousands, hardened
and siihened by agricultural toll; and y,
have looked upon q wretch, parent Of SOM
bali dozen young children, living 10 idlenes
and crabbcdness upon the scanty earnings d
his poor wife's weary needle, himself q
SUBJECT Tor the pen.entiary or the gibbet
who would starve sooner than DO what b
vas not brought up and accustomed to do
20 to work at Something msn. Work 70
your family and your country. Dom. 2
home and complain to your wife, and ca
upon her to sustain your sinking manlnes,
Wear the pantaloons, and deserve them
Ask Der TO follow you, but 90 before, an
fight your own battle, like man War nee
not can.e err -eE - starye upon . soil .
rich, underneath skies so propitious, On
while Providence 10 90 bounsiful. There
work enough for all and something for ca |,
Our country can be served a. home as real
~ in the army; and patriotism may toll
the workshop, in the Office, and on the far
~ we'll A. upon the tented field. Busine
and war may be patriotic and most efbcie
allies.