Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-03-16
Economy.

The Richmond Enquirer of . recent dSte'
has q very timely article. urging the mos.
rigid economy in tue use of the necessarieS
''of life, in order to insure enough to last I'm.
til a new crop shall be made. 1t urges every
householder TO see that no member Oh ais
family shall use more than a quarter OF :
pound ofmeat a day-to do with two instead
of three meals q day-to seek substitutes
for so much bread and meat-to change their
mode Of living and . nj down to the pam
est and most economical fare. 1t says, we
cannot want five do not waste I; we have
sufficient for all our necessities II we VIII
only economist it; and let every man who
has land cultivate it in wheat, corn beans,
potatoes, &C., &c, and not let a tobacco or
cotton plant be found upon his plantation
Look we'll to the stock don't eat, veal; lett
grow to beef Increase the stock of hogs
multiply the poultry devote time and care
to the production of every article. that enters
into the staff of life. And, above all things,
use economically every article of food. The
supply of provisions is now nearly exhausted,
, in some parts of the country, because OF the
difficulty of transportation for its proper dis
tributionH This, We hope, will be remedled
by the government; but let every garden and
i, truck patch. be we'll planted and carefully
j, cultivated. The exempts must cultivate the
soil and support the country /; the govern
ment will not, and ought not, to permit our
? army TO. want provisions The people mast
look out for their own support, and they
q must look out for the support Of the ARMY,
also. The spring is opening, and we hope
o that all will go to work, digging, ploughing,
n hoeing and planting, while the army smarch-
e ing and fighting.
Economy can and should be practised also
10 by the Government. The single article OF
e whiskey is, under the present system of con-
n tracts, consuming al immense amount OF
1t grain. These whiskey contracts, taken for
instance at 1000 gallons, cover the distillatiou
N Of many thousand gallons more than the con.
n tracts specify. If the government must have
IS whiskeyr it would be q much more economi-
Or Cal consumption Of grain for the distillery t.
at be owned by the government and managed
ID for the government by a salaried officer.
ar We hope the (Vs.2 Legislature before ad
d journment will make the disti!lation of grail
o. into liquor a penal offence by any partie
- within the State on any contract whatever
- No government contract should protect a ma,
j. who is converting grain into whiskey. Thi
a is a great evil. At present in many countie
nd of the State, distilleries have sprung up an
~ are consuming immense quantities of grair
Should the present want of provisions cor
nd tinue to increase, the people, when they fin
eb that the grain has been converted into th
ia miserable poisons that are sold in the shop
that nndano and deliriam have been aide
to starvation, will hold this Legislature to a
awful accountability. 1t would be we'll fl
a. the Confederate Government to annul ever
contract made by the Medical Purveyor fl
the distillation Of whiskey, and We hope tt
u executive, who must feel the imminence
nd the danger that threatens, will interfere an
MIC protect a starving people, from the poisonol
liquors into which the grain of the State
being converted
WHIsKEY.-A commission merchant in A
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