Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-01-31
Government SpeculatiOns vs.. Pri-
yate Industry. 81

i Government care is taken to conduct
affairs in a manner not to conflict
with the interests and well being Of
private citizens. The interests Of
the mechanical and laboring classes
are consulted with view not only
Of protecting and promoting indi.
vidual and local prosperity, but Of
stimulating and developing those
numerous resources which help, in
some form or other, to swell the
Golfers of nation and give strength
and responsibility to its name at
home and abroad. But, whenever
corruptions are permitted to enter
the body polite, and revolutionary
ideas prevail, by which Govern
ment is reduced to the sad expedient
of joining hands with sharpers and
spectators in the management of its
affairs, the people living under that
Government, is likely to receive that
sort Of care and protection which
wolves give to sheep.
A case in point has been brought
to our notice, in small matter SEEM
iugly, but one which, in the long
run, affects in reality large number
of the industrial classes. It is well
known, that the manufacture of letter
envelopes gives living occupation
to many poor men, women and chill
dren in the country. These envel-
opes, of ordinary size, are sold by
stationers, for, say, twenty five
cents pack-each pack containing
twenty five envelopes. Now, the
U. S. Post Office Department has
thought proper to league itself with
parties in the manufacture of these
envelopes in a way which must
eventually prove crushing mo-
nopoly to those persons who are
humbly striving to earn a livelihood
by the same business. Not content
with competing, as it has been
doing for long time past, with
private interests, in the matter of
furnishing envelopes at lower rate
Excluding the postage stamp, than
they can be had at the stationers',
the Department has seen fit to enter
the list against the printer. For the
sake Of stimulating still further the
sale Of its postage paid" envelopes
at eighty-fve cents pack, it agrees
to print the business cards of firms
and individuals upon the back of
those envelopes and to supply them
with the same-all for eighty seven
and a half cents pack, where no
less a number than 500 is ordered.
Of course, with its arrangements and
facilities for inducing and turning
out so many millions of an article so
universally required, the Department
with its linked in spectators, will
be enabled to realize fortunes even
at the low rates specified, but the
ruinous consequences of such grasp
ing operations upon the honest toll
ing millions of the country are never
once thought Of by the parties to
this iniquitous and oppressive ALI
ance.
Really, it is time that the Trades
Unions throughout the United States,
should rise and in their might and
influence put down this monopolizing
spirit of the Government, SO unjust
and injurious to their interests.
How TO Go TO BED.-Hall's
Journal Of Health gives the follow
ing advice how to go to bed in winter
time. Those who practice retiring
on the "cuddle up" plan will readily
fall in with these suggestions:
Do it in hurry, if there is no fire
in the room and there ought not to
be unless you are quite an invalid.
But if person is not in good |
health, it is best to undress by a