Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-11
IFrom the New York Tribuoe.1
HOw q Poor Man May Live and Take q
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Several poor men, living by their own
honest labor, in the interior of Wiscon-
sin, unite in letter TO the editor Of the
Tribune, whesein they say: stal 4
We find that the prices Of all kinds
of goods and of newspapers are in
creAsing, 30 that it seems impossible for
those who have no other resources than
their own labor to live and taks q paper.
Win you please advise us as TO what we
shall dor .......,
To which we respond as follows:
!. It ia q mistake that the money
prices Of food, clothing and newspapers
are now increasing. On the contrary,
tho general tendency of prices, since the
close Of the var, is downward; and tits
certain that those prices win fall rapidly
IS our returned soldiers are absorbed
into the great army Of producers aad as
our currency appreciates As yet, our
returning soldiers have not generally
gone 10 work; or, if they have, the
fruits of their industry have not -begnnr
to be realized. For years,sw as q peo-
pie, have largely devoted our energies
to war; that is, destruction, instead of
production. Necessarily, products have
steadily grown dearer and dearer. This
would have been the case mad our cur
rency remained sound; and the tendency.
to high prieesSha been aggravated By
paper Imitation and consequent depre-
ciation. Having finished the war,
stopped burning warehouses;, wagon
trains, bridges, granaries, &c, we know
that we have touched bottom and are
now coming up. When we shall have
paid of and discharged one or two hun
dred thousand more of our soldiers And
sailors, We shall have reduced our Ma
tioual expenditures below our current
receipts, and then we can very speedily
and rapidly appreciate our currency, so
that dollar with rs will be equal to five
French francs or four British shillings,
as it was and should DO. This will bring
down prices an average OF thirty or forty
/ per cent below those now prevailing.
But, even With gold ct forty to foFty-six
premium, we have already reduced the
price Of the Weekly Tribune, so that II
can be- bought to-day for lsss labor or
farmers produce than it could bs before
the war began. And We hope, as the
currency sppreciatess TO reduce Il still
furthsr to clubs To suscriberawho take
Il siugly, it Is now nominAlly as cheap
90, and really cheaper than ever before
the war. @ ~ 1-4sH {
a. We labor snd hope for currency
sppreciatiou that win reduce The nosni
nal prices Of food and clothinR; but thit
will not specially benefit ths poor, sinos
their wages will generally fall with thc
, premium on gold and the prices Of pro
ducts. he who now gets-$l so per dsJ
, for work, viii receive but 81, or . little
, more, for such work at the same season
, when the greenback dollar shall have
, been made equal to gold dollar; bu
then the dollar will buy nearly rs nncE
D food or cloth Aa 81 so does now. Yet i
: is well to have our currency conformeC
!. and anchored TO the universal atAndarG
of value, which is gold ASH .ssr -
3. But whether the currency chall bl
( 30 appreciated sooner or later or ever
a though il should be fully restored Il
soundness tomorrow, or had never beer
!, deprecated nc MI, it 10 certain tha
! living will, for the poor, in the sveragl
Q be less easy in this country, for SOM
| years, than it was before the var. w
, have been destroying property to a
enormous extent, aud the nation is poor
or By the sum Of its value; we have 70
, years been hiring and paving, or prom
ising 10 pay, an average OF one millio
/. men to do that which was indispensable
but which produced no bread and butter
and We have therefore run in debt sbou
= three thousand millions, Of which W
must pay principal some time, and q
J. interest at all times. We Of the citiel
L and especially men of large incomes
l. have to shoulder the heavy end Of ia
is losd; but all our people, whether ric
J. or poor, mnst help carry II, live wher
,r they may. Hence We knew and shoul
{. never fail 20 consider that more industr
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