The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-11-21
A Plan to Fill the Ranks our Army Ut &c.

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We have been favored with an advance
chapter of pamphlet now in press aud
soon to be issued BY A. CAArBEJg, ESQ.,, Of
La Sale, which seems to us to deserve
notice. The "plan" which NE. C presents,
whether correct or erroneous in principle
is bound to excite wide spread attention,
and unless sho,on to be erronebds, may
lead to inps rtant consequences: for these
are the things it proposes to accomplish:
l. To pay the soldiers ct our ar.nk FIVE
times the amount they new receive, at
half the present cest.to the TreasiGy *. !.
2 To pay the producers who stock the
army, twice the prices they how receive.
8. To equalize the gains.of production in
a manner that, without any Injustice to
the factors of prod uctions will leave to the
producers themselves double their present
share of the annual products OF tie indus,
try of the nation. That is to say, the la
borer who now receives three hundred
dollars per annunn, will receive instead six
hundred, each dollar Of which will buy US
much as each dollar of the tlItte hundred
he now receives.
i A safeguard against comm efcial con
vulsions. .
These are results SO comprehensive and
SO important, that ttrey deserve an exam
nation not less careful and Thorough, than
the mos; important political problems
that can affect the liberties and welfare OF
Il nation ought to receive, tor they are
! scarcely less ~~;shty.a A'e c~r'phell sys
| tenn of finance is not wholly O. chimera;
| it has received to a certain extent, It not
! fully, the appreciation Of some ofthe best
minds i'll the nation. The mode in which
Mr.. Campbell proposes to reach these re-
suits, is by means of two very simple pro
positions. These are,
l. To constitute the treasury notes OF
thsi general government, conformity with
gold and silver, money; that is to make
them, as god and silver now nre, money
and to maintain those notes on an equality
with gold and silver.
2. To fix the government rate of interes,
at three percent-and in such a manntf
that it shall control the rate ofcommercipl
interest, SO that it shall eeneraHy- be at
about four per cent and never rise above
1--WE per cent. Amy one can begin to zee
that if those propositions can DE. t.aintain
ed, it ia quite probable that the result,
claimed would follow; and the experiment.
already made with treasury notes relieves
OF those two propesi,ionsfrom the imput Ia
ton Of being purely chimerical.
1t may be, and probably will be the case
that the mode in which Mr Campbell pro
poses to reach his result, will have to be
modited-but the principle still remain.
unimpaired. In support OF his system tp
some extent at least, Mr. Campbell can
point TO the result Of part OF his plan
which is now irfoperatioys to WIZ the III rse
hundred and fifty thousand dollars OF
treasury notes, that are 4 legal tender foi
pytHc as we'll as private use legal tender:
for both-these arc on 4 par with gold
and are worth more than silver Mr.
Camp6ells system, therefore, as far rs i
has been put in operation, has pro used
the result he claimed for ii; ard that Il
enough, independent OF the cogent reason
ing by which he supports it, to entitle i
! 10 the serious attention Of the people
| We hope they will give it their attention
II they do. it will force this result at ar!
rate if this system is not we'll founded, j
will con,pel these who are capable of Coz
cussion in any event the public must deiiv
a benefit. We do not profess the capac,,
A.. 80 &c, pIcsr"t, cisf41I IN -Isvor OF, o
against this system-but those who hay.
we think assurdiy will fud ample occasion
to give their best attention 20 this sutiec.