Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-11


The Coming Poverty.
one tenth Of the the irhoie population Of
The Northern States hBye been "a arus, con
suming aud destroying, within the past three
years The greater part OF these we're drawn
from actively proInciuu classes Another
army has been engaged IN feeding. clothing
and otherwise waung on the fighting army.
The larger part Of the remaining population
has been made ~ Of men Of feeble age OF
women, aud OF tender infants
Destruction and consumption have been
prodigous. Production has been ieetinIiy
diminished The pernieious credit system OF
the North has permitted the people TO wade
into q ifightlu bankruptcy before they were
aware Of IT, The trouble, when It does come
on them, will come ~ on armed robber
It is coming spsce Laboring people used
TO drink coffee How long is it since day-la-
borers have had in their humble homes any
real coffee TO drink Why, It costs--the
poorest kinds, ffty 10 sixty cents d pound
! They must let 1t alono--or they must use vile
decoctions, not favorable TO health. They
used TO use sugar, at seven or eight cents
pound Now, common brown augar costs
twenty FIVE cents q pound They used to eat
/ butter Now butter is at guch rates that Gree
/ ley looking out from behind the pile OF green
/ backs he has made out of this war, urges the
rest of us--poor fellows-Het 10 eat butter
| Unnecessary advice We cant afford i'll
| Next beef goes up Tough old COW beet
sells at twenty-five to twenty eight cents, and
beef OF better prades from thirty towards
forty. Greeley puts his countsnance, again,
over his sreen-back pile, and eNhorts US to
cease eating beef" Don't buy pound OF
Iitr Aged parents, delicate wives, siekly
f nd fntl mr. .
eating beet" howl is raised that II is "spec-
ulation' that has put up the prices Hum
bug
When, last December, far out in the interi-
or Of farming Illinois, where we travelled, we
found hay selling at twenty-five dollars ton,
we knew what was coming 1t is production
that has decreased 1t Ia not speculation.
Beet Will oe scarcer yet, aud all other uesh
meats But, that is not all, Tho fortunate
absence OF demand for grain in Europe, ha,
lett wheat and other corn in the country, the
last season We call this tOrtRHdte--ior
while it has embarrassed exchange, and dam
aged commerce, il has, for the time being
given cheap bread to the poor But now, al
unpropiuous winter blighted the fall wheat IN
wide districts of he West When spring
opened, the farmers thought to plough up then
wheat fields, and plautthem with Indian corr
TO have something TO eat The Gorilla a.
Washington, 10 league with his satraps, tn,
, Governors Of North Western States, just lhet
, called one hundred thousand men for one hun
, dred daysl Between those that went ant
q were forced to go, and those that He'd to es
. cape being forced to 90, the fields of The
grain-regions of the North West lack labor
a ers 1t is said that in the one State of Ohio
. three thousand farms stand uncultiva ed, Ihil
> yearl Clo.bing, and articles OF food hereto
n tore considered necessaries have gone Il
' prices frighteningt to poor people. They wea
I, old clohes-but these are wearing out. Nou
, they have the prospect before them OF dea
bread Coal, next winter, threatens to b.
:. twenty dollars a ton, that used to be FIVE o
;, six dollars Flour is likely to be near
"A twenty dollars barrel
Il Is It well to Try whether the poor peopl
=. will endure all this ? The middle classes ar
l. suffering, in their turn, and are losing all tbs
"a they have saved by years OF industry. Butcl
ar ers are losing money! Retail dealers ar
I'd selling for less than they can buy tori Th
an distress is general. IL it well for the commit
Mt mites Of the Northern States-especially fC
be large cities, and denser populations, to pus
n this hing on to the extreme and bitter issue
NJ "H0tc can it be obviatedW We can te
At. you, and It concerns you men OF large accun
no la,ed property, more than it concerns us
gs Obvlnte it, by stopping the causes Of all this
,fT Stop II war that should never have been b
ia gun, and which will plunge You deeper on
.. deeper INTO shame, into defeat, and into tro
nd BILE, the longer YOU continue it Madiso
N. wrote War is the parent of large armie
From these proceed public debts, and take
NJ aud armies, dsbts and tGres are the comma
or methods, by which the fep obtain dominatio
II over the many r If it comes TO this last, v
an mean to try conclusions as to physical force
Ia Stop the war while you may