The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-08-24
Female Help i'm the Harvest Field.

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SO terribly scarce is help IN the harves,
fields in this section that great numbers Of
German, Norwegian and Bohemian servant
girls of La Crosse have been hired to 60 out
during harvest to work securing grain
They receive two dollars a day for thei,
services, and even at this rate, enough help
cannot be had TO secure the crops.-La
Crosse Democrat
We counsel our republican friends who
insist that this war shall continue, without
compromise, until The South is suhjugated
and the emancipation proclamation of Mr.
| Lincoln carried into practical effect by the
sword, to read the foregoing statement OF
the scarcity of help to do the work of the
| farm. Since this war commenced. more
than two millions of the able.bodicd men
have been withdrawn from the peaceful
pursuits of industrial labor to engage in
the work of destroying life and property,
ana the work still goes on, with an addi-
tional call for half a million more of our
able bodied men Of the country, from the
plow, the loom, and the anvil, to continue
the work of destruction, with no more pros
pect OF speedy termination Of the war for
sutjugaiion and conquest than there was
when the first five hundred thousand was
called into the field. And yet we find the
same fanatics, who have been deluding them.
| selves and others ever since this war
commenced, with the cry that "ths is the
last call, "tho rebellion is on its last legs"
at every fresh levy Of men, still repeating
The same old prediction, Notwithstanding all
their former DEMONSTRATIONS, have turned
out wholly untrue ~
How long will the masses OF the people.
who arc supposed to have little common
sense. continue to be duped by such miser.
able fanatics and false prophets, to not only
their own ruin, hut to the ruin of their
country? This war could have been and
would have been avoided altogether by com.
promise and Cancellation, had patriots and
statesmen been at the head Of our national
affairs, instead Of fanatics and rail splitting
and Union splitting politicians; and it can
be stopped now, and the Union saved from
impending ruin, by the simple process of
turning out of office the men who have be-
trayed the people and nearly ruined the
country through their bungling manage
ment ofthc war, and their innate corruptions
and rascalities.
If all the able bodied men in the country
are to be drafted into the army, to kill and
MAIN, who will work the farms TO feed the
army, and the old and infirm men, and the
women and children who only will be left
at home? The result Of the war, now, in
its fourth year, ought to convince all men,
north and south, who are not fools or
fanatics, that neither section Of the country
is strong enough to suhjngate and conquer
the other on it's own SOIL What, then, is
left for both sectionssto do, but to continue
the war until both sides become utterly
ruined in population and property, and
afterwards end in final disunion or else, a
reunion, by compromise, through negotia.
tons W hen two persons, or two nations,
get to war with each other and after fight
ing a sufficient time to demonstrate that
neither can conquer the other, what else
would sensible linen advise to be done but
to quit fighting and endeavor to settle their
quarrel by mutual concession and compro.
mise, rather than continue to fight until
both are either killed, or the survivor is so
mangled and crippled as to be worthless
ever afterwards.
Mr.. Lincoln, in his Inaugural Address,
stated that we could not fight always, but
that, after much loss on both sides and no
gain on either, the same old question would
be open to be settled by compromise. Has
not the time come for a sensible people to
make an effort, at least, in that direction to
end this horrid war, that has already so
drained the fields of their male !aborers,
that the women have to go into the harvest
to gather the bread which is to feed them
selves and the army. We earnestly be-
seech the people to look at facts as they are,
and not as moon stricken politicians. crack
Drained preachers. and nhoddy oliicc-hold-
ers, and contractors would make them be-
lieve they are.
The rebels have, on several occasions, and
very recently, made efforts to open negotia,
tions with Mr.. Lincoln, but IN every in
stance their overtures have been rejected,
and the impossible terms Of negro enamel
patton been thrust in the way Of a settle
ment, while the war still RACES as furiously
as ever, and our soldiers are falling in bat
tie, like autumnal leaves after a killing
frost, ard the president is calling for half
million more men to fill up the depleted
ranks. # $s l'.t f' @'3."'.'
Oh! how long shall this useless slaughter
of human beings continue, without an effort
being made to stop it by the only possible
mode which holds out any reasonable pros
pect Of ever being successful? Citizens of
the United States, Countrymen, will you lay
aside your political prejndices, and think
calmly over this matter -Heokuk Consti-
tuition. ~.