The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-12
ABUNDANCE EVERYWHERE AND HARD
TINES

The South is full of cotton, and corn.
The Wes. is full of wool and wheat, and
csttel and pork;
The East is full of goods and wares.
Warehouses groan with the weight Of So
gar, coffee and tea.
Railroads cover the land and make dis
tant points near.
Thousands of men are gathered in the
cities, waiting eagerly 10 distribute the
wealth which is only burden.
One-hslf of the people who make clothes,
boots, tools, and houses, demand food for
their months, and cotton, wool, and other
materials for the work of their hands.
The other half, who grow corn and cotton,
and tend cattle, demand clothes for their
backs, tools wherewith to work, and houses
TO live in.
Every where abundance, sup
ply,-every where demand
Yet trade is dull and the times are hard.
Distrust prevails throughout land. Men
are anxious and fearful lest they come to
want Why?
Has the Southerner lost his wits Has
the Western man no courage? Ia the Y an
kee fool? Are the men OF the Middle
States all knsves
An impartial judge might well answer
yes 10 every question.
People allege that money is scarce, Il
Is not true. Capital may sometimes be
scarce; credit may be shaken, but i. might
as well be said tina, yard.s:ieks or pound
weights are scarce, that money is ever
scarce.
The secret, patent 70 every one who de-
sires to find it out, is, that our money is
bad. Hence, want in the midst of plenty
Hence, confusion in place of order. Hence,
loss where all the elements of gain are Civ
en-. Hence, dis,rust where there is every
cause for confidence.
We willtully continue to use bad money
and yet mourn continually because our good
money leaves us and passes into the posses
sion Of those who have more sense than we
have.
The Treasury groans with repletion of
good money. The chief problem is what
10 do with the good money piled up in bale
full surplus hurting every one so long as it
is not used for the only purpose for which
it can be honestly used
There is but one path to prosperity. There
is but one honest use for the stock of real
money now lying idle in the Treasury.
There is but one method of reducing the
interest our debt.
The debt due on demand must be paid -
the protested promises of dollars must be re-
deemed practical reputation must cease.
Then will 6sirust be at an end /, then will
food reach the hungry, then will clothing
cover the naked, then will employment seek
those who now seek it IN vain.
Then will abundance cease to be q burth-
en-, and the very strength OF the country
cease to be q cause of weakness and OF Its
discredit.
Now, the more we have the less We gain,
and the magnitude of our surplus revenue,
constantly impending over US, is Cause OF
danger and of distrust, because II is mIsused.
Now the Secretary of the Treasury exhib-
its no power to lead, and Congress is at the
beck and call Of private interests opposed
to the public need.
Now, the most powerful organ of one
grea party respects not the death bed OF its
great opponent, but attempts to poison the
very air with its baleful SANDER. Now, the
most powerful organ of another great par
ty is but the advocate of a band of bounty
jumpers.
Now, the most successful rogue is fol-
lowed in his carriage by crowd OF gaping
but envious FOOLS
Now, monument is put up to immortal
ize the age OF swindlng, and bishop prays
over the brszen image erectad to the golden
calf
Blu. unless Democracy is failure, the
common school cheat, unless sreedom ia a
deusion, all these things shall end. The
very men who now enact obstruction, legal.
ze continued fraud, and legislats to promo.e
scarcity, shall soon be required TO pass laws
for the enforcement of simple justice and
the public good.