Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-16
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eial states, and philosophers in general,
love to refer the phenomena oflife back to
general laws or principles, from which all
things proceed, whether in trade, in art,
in literature in society or religion. There
is especially, something very sublime to
their minds in the idea of the laws of
Trade, which in their imperious rule con
troll all the complicated and clashing in
terests in trade or in commerce. They
study the phenomena of political economy
and deduee laws and generalities, before
which they bow, if not in reverence, ct
least in profound admiration. The laws
Of Trade, say they, sweep in majestic cur
rents, like rivers in the sea, through all the
varied interests of Society, and finally
equalize and harmonic facts and condi-
tions that might otherwise seem wholly
irreconcilable.
While we agree that finally General
Laws gain the day and that whoever goes
contrary to them viii ultimately reap loss
and disaster while anticipating profit and
success, yet their operations arc largely in
terfered with during periods of great po-
htical and commercial excitement In the
rroorass of so,;,s--a- ---,-.oI Oeftaln cities
0eo6me the foci in which all the varied
interests offs great nation center New
York is rapidly attaining this position on
this continent. Wall Street is a great cen
tral financial battery which sends its life
tinglirg along all the channels of trade
This battery is now an Internal Machine
manipulated in such a manner as to defy
all the laws of Trade. The CONNER
cial and financial transactions of New
York City are becoming the index for
trade and finance throughout the whole
land. The business men of the
North watch the fluctuations of
gold at the Stock-gamblers Board with
even more interest than the reports from
the Seat of War. Wall Street brokers
and bankers, sitting behind their money
bags, bonds and stocks, are supposed to be
N possession of facts which are inaccessi-
bic to the outside world, and which more
truly indicate the interests of trado and the
fortunes of war, than anything known
elsewhere. Twice day the Internal Ma
chine is set at work Men in the posses
sion of little money. Et.Ie credit and far
less patriotism, join in with men of much
capital and much shrewdness, and togeth-
er, by a system of feverish, greedy gam
bling over gold or over the necessaries OF
life. they put upon all things bought and
sold and which are articles Of trade, val
ne more fictitious than real, but which tel
egraphed all over the land, regulates trade
for that day in all cities, towns and villa
ges. #t5i
Turning their attention from railroad or
government stocks, they begin to gamble
over pork and -four, pushing up the price
Ofthese commodities, day by day, to a
point which almost presages popular tu-
multi in large cities, and Immediately the
Internal machine CT New York is set in
motion all over the land, and men rush TO
the purchase of pork and -four, as if hogs
had nearly ceased to be and the raising Of
wheat was to be reckoned among the lost
arts. By an ingenious device,
known to men "in the ring" pork and
flour suddenly fall, and down come pork
and -four throughout the whole land. The
innocent victims ofall this gambling, in the
mean time suffer all the consequences. The
farmer to-day buys three and a half pounds
Of sugar for a dollar, and tomorrow IS in
formed that three pounds are worth a dol
lar. Why so? Because Of any reverse
to our arms Because ofa failure in the
sugar erop2 Because the supply is less
and the consumption greater? Not atallI
Simply because the internal machine in
New York City has begun to operate on
sugar Because men who have sngar are
bound to make something on it before let
ing It 60. Knowing that he is in con-
slant danger from these operations and with |
what implicit confidence men worship |
the New York market reports, the country
dealers everywhere follow the guidance of |
those reports and hence, without any real
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,ias without any better oriWorse knowledge |
If the facts necessary to a full understand
of the problems of trade, every thing,
rom gold tocigars OF from wheat to onions
$ kept bobbing up and down like ball on
/ fountain. The internal machine is only
loing Its natural work The laws of trade
Ire ignored The fortunes of war are ig-
aored. The genius of the hour IS the gam
,ler In New York, r,-
That this is so; is cORhrmed by the fact
hat real estate suffers no such fluctuations,
aor has it deprecated at al commensu-
ately with other things. It has value
which more truly indicates the situation,
commercial and military, than
u the crazy fluctuations of gold or cotton,
'oef or pork. aq0 0oa 0r1
The men who run the machine in New |
FORK are not distinguished particularly for
uyalty. They are not known to attach a
dgher value to patriotism than 10 pocket.
they are however, interested largely in
heir own success and that Of the rebellion.
The laws Of war will yet come in. The
avs of trade will prevail, and tumbling of
. huge kind will be the order of the day.
Fat people may now breathe more freely.
Dr.. Duparc, of London, assures the public
hat by using his remedy of Focus vesicu-
osus, they may become shapely,and get rid