Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-30
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Frun the Atlanta Daily Appel oe4- L.
The subsistence question Is very prop
eriy engaging the attention OF the press AZ
present, and il should that of the people
Of the cOnfederacJ without delay.
great dsuRer threatens us-OEe TO be feared
more than the rAyages of the public enemy
will, if ne are true 10 our cause, be anie TO
make; and IS this danger Is entirely within
our own control, and can be aTerted With
out a sacrifice and without disturbing the
laws of q healthy commercial intercourse,
surely everv energy should be devoted and
reaestion directed 10 DEVISE measures 70
avert the calamity that hons up before
US.
The unprecedented high price of pro-
visions is by no means legitimate. The
! figures asked and paid are not enhaoeed
BIZ = scarcity OF supplies. The markets
are abnndantly supplied, JET in every Sec
lion of the country prices are 80 high IS 10
/ produce serious Inconvenience, II not
! distress In come sections they have
| reached point already where honest sub
/ sistence among the poor and those Of sIsn-
. der means is almost out of the question
/ Yet, as the Savannah Republican remarks,
| the product Of the earth for the last two
years has been ample for the comfortable
( subsistence of all the inhabitants. Itneeds
/ but to be properly apportiOned TO supply
[ the wants Of all. What Is worse, there IS
/ nothing hopeful to look forward 70 IN the
! future, even with the certainty Of an Rbun'
| dant supply from the agricultural labOrs OF
the present year. Matters, instead of
| growing better. ATE daily becoming worse
| Have our people stopped for one moment
/ t0eontemPlate this alarming state of affairs
and the results TO which it inevitably
tends-ss inevitably as that men, women
! he led and
| clothed in order to live? We feel assured
| they have not looked it 10 the face with
that sober gaze which its great importance
| demands. We stand on the brink OF 8
moral volcano, and with an infatuaIiOn
uext to maduess, sing, and pipe, and dance
and add to our already plethoFic gains, as
| if all were well and perfectly safe. God
grant that the eruption may never take
place bat can We hope that people will
be saved who refuses to save themselves /
| he acts in His proyidences generally through
| human instr umentalities, and IL Is these
the thoughts, the hearts and the purses Of
those who are blessed with means-that
should be aroused into action in order to
save the country from calamity.
We have said there p no cause for the
extortion practised by the producers aud
spectators. We repeaIit, and they assign
none when demonstrated with, beyond the
depreciation of the currency. But, as the
| Richmond Dispatch asserts, the excuse is
not valid. at is not deprecated as much
as prices would indicate. There are causes
originating in the cuPidity and heartless-
ness of men employed in commerce and in
4 agriculture, which are weighing down the
/ people and the cause, and which are threat
inning both more than the currency. Can
the practice of these people be reformed ?
| Can the distress theY occasion he modeF.
ated by checking their extravagant demand
upon consumers2 These questions are
growing more and more important. Some
thing must be done. Produce must be dis
tributed-prices must be reduced-gains
be disgorged-or there will be suffering
intense, and intense suffering will beget-
| what? Think of il.