Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-10-08
An Excellent ArtIc;e.

An Excellent Article.
We commend the following excellent arti-
Gle to the attention Of all our readers
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
MEssRs EDIroRs. The approaching elec-
tious will be more vitaly important to the ls-
boring CLASSES than any former election that
has occurred on this continent As labor.
ing man, wish (throuRh the medium of your
paper) to address lew words to the voters of
this counly-showing the omparstive price
Of living, and wages for labor notO, and four
years ago. Taking the Dayton car chops,
and country labor, as a base.
Dayton car shops, 1860, paid 81 80 per day,
aud 1864, 50 so.
Country labor, 1860, paidI 81 90 per day,
and 1864, 81 so
This shows an average advance on labor of
/ so per cent. in the past tour years
/ Now the cost of living advanced "a follows:
Flour, 1860, So 90 per bbl 1864. $40 90,
or 100 per cent
Meats, 1860, Sc per lbi 1860, zoe, or so
per cent.
Shoes, 1854, 100 per cert
Cotton goods, 1860, l2ie per yard; 1864,
60c, or 400 per cent.
Or an average advance Of 1870 per cent,
/ from 1860 to 1864, while the advance on wa
| gss for labor during the same time is only GO
/ per cent, or one third of the advance of the
advance on the necessaries of life
| This is a fair exhibit Of results compared
with the promises made to laboring men in
1860, when asked to vote for Lincoln, and
good times.
Fellow Workingmen, consult your own in
terests. Contractors, speculators and capital
ists also consult their interests. They live
and make princely fortunes out Of your la
hor. You are the wealth Of the land and the
sinews of war. The farmer, mechanic and
laboring man are the grand source Of all
wealth, and as soon as government ceases
to foster the welfare of those, by pandering to
the caprices of the consumers, Just so soon il
falls short of the ends.for which all just gov
srnments we're instituted Each community
has two classes-producers aud consumers
and while the producers prosper, the whole
hive prospers. But the imitation of currency
by our national shinplaster system, gives the
idle speculstor and consumer an advance o
1870 per cent, while the farmer, mechanic anC
aborer get only GO per cent. advance, anC
i unless this state of things is changed, nation
A commercial and social ruin must ensue
o Aud merciless system Of conscription take
d from the number OF producers tUo,foLd, b,
: increasing consumers by the number takeI
t from industry. Fellow workingmen-strik
State and national, are at fault-we hav
been deceived-let us fall back on old primo
. ples--demand peace, honorable pc Ice-th
3 Union and Constitution our fathers gave ii
Il Surely we are the same people ws were iou
+ years ago, when peace and prosperity was ou
10 common lot. Then what has changed-wha
N has brought war, and all the direfnl results c
,e war? Are we not the same people2 If 8
II the fault lays with our rulers. These we CO
change. Then, in the name Of your slaug
tered fellow men. whose blood cries up from
~ thousand battle Gelds--jn the name of Il
lc thousand victims of political bastiles-in Il
he name OF two millions of widows and orphan
whose tears flow in mighty rivers-in Il
s. name Of common humanity, | appeal to 20
to as an humble workingman, to lay aside 20
IT. party prejudiees-come out, and swell Il
nd great cry of Peace Freedom, Liberty az
90 Union, by.yoting the entire Democratic tiek'
County, State and Nationsl Look not
=. men, but principles Democratic principl
p'S made this country what il was, when t
OF name American citizen was more terrible
lat despots than the appeal of Paul 10 Cesar,
KS Roman citizen. Republican rule, in 70
ed years, has almost reduced US to level vi
DR. modern organ grinders of ancient Rom
renowu "a honse divided against its
a., must fall Let us unite. In union there
~. strength, and united, vote the entire Den
cratic ticket A WoRESGMAS.
IL Wayne TIP, Oct T. 1864.