The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-03-20


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n, having -. so eordie,aJ invited - take part
,s.dinx d.lssates 70 sAis Consenton.
By order Of the A-rseiicsa ssass css1slf Committee
- G. c. N0un1n ehairnas.
THE wORsTnahDO OF REpUDIATIoN
l, ism, Che threatened liquidation Of fhe
national debt. The American people are to'
. nation Of villains, the preaching and prsc-
.ice Of the d Democratic parry TO the contrary
notwithstanding. But the man obser,snt Of
the situation u it is, will find Ersster concern
than tie threat or repudiating the debt. He
will End it in the reputation Of labor, an esii
that is constantly assuming larger proportions
Everywhere the tide sets in from the country
To town. The ci.ies are overfowing. and the
country districts remain without inhabitants
Men vainly seek for employment in the towns,
and steadily refuse to 60 to the country. y be
evil ha. largely incresed since the var
Yphik 4n and niddle-assd M slS had
Sd.A tesaaives il t1icoaatrJ - ~ thiDsn
into town and town life struck them - be-
ing easier than farm life. And when their
term of soldier service expired, instead OF
going back to their old country homes, they
focked to the cities and towns. not to be pro-
ducers but only consumers Of values. And
men that have money, instead OF employing
j. in production, in opening and cultivatihe
farms, or opening mined, or in uanuiactnfing,
20 into stock rings, to speculate and
i" operate !" and the country il suffering and
cursed in consequence. Ben Wade put i, we'll,
10 bis conversation With 9 Apts," which We
referred to yesterday. He said We must stop
this outrageous system Of fraud and specula-
tion. That is it. II is the bane Of this coun-
try. Everybody wants to speculate. Nobody
wants to work. Nobody wants to create val
ues; everybody wants to get, BY trade or
speculation or stealing, the values that some
body else has created. The country is being
dsmorslixed. There ere ten merchants try
ing to do the business that one ought to do
and each of these has employed from two to
FIVE clerks that should be doing something
else. And there are men sitting idly in Offices,
trying to sell real estate TO purchasers that
don't come, when thsy had better be out with
a pillow and hoe, getting living from the
real estate itself, instead OF starving by the
impossible sale Of it. If there is book TO
be sold by subscription, there are score Of
stslwart chaps in every township ready to
trudge about on a daily commission from
sales of about thirty-seyen and half cents,
and bore people out Of all Christian humor, if
they can only exc subsistence and shirk work.
And for every one that there should be there
are score Of insurance agents, that want
to insure you, or your house, or your barn.
or your dead grandu other-anything, to di-
vide among twenty the business and profits Of
one. Farmers sell good farms aud move to
,ownto lose their money By keeping store,
or a grocery or hotel We don't mean TO
insinuate that these avocalions should not
be followed, bu, they are all over done And
it has come to -this, IS We have said, our cities
are crowded to overlooking, while there is
room and work enough and to spare in the
country. In the cities men are out OF en-
ployment and suffering. There are numer-
Gus applicants for every place. Europe
pours its tide of strength and weakness, OF
pauperism, Of virtue and vice into the already
full reservoir. The consumers are exceed
ing the producers, idleness usurps the place
Of labor manufactures are stopping their
machinery; men with capital use it in spec
ulation, aud speculation is vicious and de-
moraliziHg circulation OF values and adds
nothing to the wealth of the community.
When The coausry needs, when its only safe
~ is in the increase Of direct production, and
in the multiplication OF wealth, the tendency
of the people is to diminish production, and
inpovsr'ah the nation BY gambling and con.
sumption Of existing values. And, to crown
it oil, the Democracy propose, BY issuing over
two billions of greenbacks, to destroy at one
stroke that much of values now existing.
We may talk and write. The whole press
may join init Yet, We confess, that II here and
there an individual is moved to look at the
situation Alright, and act accordingly, it is all
that ws dare hope. We expect the present
tendency Of things, not without great evil to
run its course. Men will continue to crowd
to town, capitalists will continue to speculate
instead Of using their money in production,
until the profits OF production, of farming
especially, become 80 dispropor.ionate, that
social and economical laws, tending to IN
equilibrium Of valnes, will set the curren,
from the town TO the country, and .presen,
Ills be mitiEated. So will the currents ehb
and flow IN this country while land remain.
plenty and cheap and its ownership 10 ea6Y.
But when, If ever, ths time comes in this
country that it will require great capital 70
purchase land. then. such tendency A. u.
ists in this nation now would work ulDixed
and continuing evil. The rich would become
richer. the poor poorer and the relative sit.
astions OF the two classes never reversed a.
il 30 almost constantly 10 nov.