New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-02
HOW A s0OE WAN MAY LIVE anh
TAKE A NEWSPAPER.

they say:
awe tad that the prices Of oil kinds 0. goods and Of
newspapers are i-crcasiu ta0t it seems impossible
for those who have other than their own
labor to live and take paper. WIN you please advise
Us as TO What we shall do :"
To which We respond as follows:
!. Ii is mistake that the money prices Of
Food, Clothing, and Newspapers, are nor in
creasing. On the contrary, the general ten
dcncy OF prices, since the close Of the War, is
downward; aud it is certain that those prices
will fall rapidly a. our returned soldiers are r.
absorbed into the great army Of Producers and
as orr Currency appreciates. As yet. Our re-
turning soldiers have not generally gone to-
work; or. if they have, the fruits Of their in
dustry have not begun to be realized For
years, we, n, a.pcople, have largely devoted our
energies TO War-that is, 70 destruction. instead
of production. Necessarily, products have
steadily grown dcarer aud dearer. This would
have been the case had our Currency remained
sound: and the tendency to high prices has
been aggravated by Paper imitation and conse-
quent depreciation. Having finished the
War, stopped burning warehouses. wagon
trains, bridges, granarieS, &C., &c, we
know that we have touched bottom
and are now coming up. When We shall
have paid off and discharged One or Two
Hundred Thousand more Of Our soldiers and
sailors, we shall have reduced our National
expenditure, below our current receipts, and
then We can very speedily and rapidly appreciate
our Currency. 50 That q dollar with Us will be
al out equal to five French francs or four British
shillings. as il was and should be. Tn, VIII
bring down prices an average Of thirty or forty
per cent below those now prevailing. But. even
with Gold at 40 TO l6 per cent. premium, We
have already reduced the price Of The WEEKLY
TRIBUNE, so that it can be- bought to-day for
less labor or farmers produce than il could be
before the War began. And we hope. As the
Currency appreciates. to reduce IT still further
to clubs. To subscribers who take it singly, 1t
is now nominaly as cheap as and Naliy cheaper
than ever before the War.
H. We labor and nope for a Currency appre-
citation that will reduce the nominal prices o.
Food and Clothing: but this will not specially
benefit the Poor, since their wages will gener
ally fall with the premium on Gold and the
/ prices of Products He who now gets %l3
per day for work, will receive but 81, or a little
more, for such work at the same season when
! the grecnback dollar shall have been made
equal to a gold dollar; but then the dollar will
buy nearly as much food or cloth as 81 does
now. Yet il IL well TO have our Currency con-
formed and anchored TO the universal standard
of value which is Gold.
III. But, whether the Currency shall so be
appreciated sooner or later or even though it
should lie fully restored to soundncss to-mor-
row, or had never been deprecated al all. it
is certain that living will, for the poor in
the average be less easy in this country for
some years than it was before the War.
We have been destroying property to an enor-
nous amount and the ration is poorer by the
sum of its value; we have for years been
hiring and paying Cor promising to pay an
average of One Million Men TO do thai
which was indispensable, but which produced
10 bread and butter; and we have thereby
run in debt some Three Thousand Millions
of Dollars, of which we must pay the prin-
cipal some time, and the interest at all
times. We of the cities, and especially
men Of large incomes, have to shoulder the
heavy end of the load; but all our people,
whether rich orpoor, must help carry il, live
where they NAV. Hence we know and should
never fail to consider that more industry or
greater economy must hcncciorth be evinccd
by the Poor than formerly. This is the fact;
let us look it square in the face. Taking our
country through, hundred days labor in
whatever capacity will not buy so much Food
and Clothing since the War as it did before; and
this state of things must continue until either
we shall have paid Off our National Debt or
until the progress of Invention and Machinery
shall have oveTbalanced that Debt by making
American Labor in the average considerably
more efficient than it was in l-GO.
Such are the facts to be confronted: Now for
the course to be pursued by the Poor vita ref
erence thereto
". TASTE Of Time is form Of imprOvidcnce
common among the Poor. Few poor men
could suppress amazement if enabled TO look
back through the last ten years and perceive
the number Of days through which they were
idle when they might and should have been at
work. Very many of the poor have evinced no
foresight respecting and made no provision for
work in inclement weather or in case Of sud-
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