Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-19
Alexandria, v a.
SATURDAY, AUGUST IL, 1876.
The State OF the ountsy.

tlOn OF the lHulaO POSSIBILITIES w lhC NeS'''"
border. which have DO effect upon the material
prosperity with 10 pestience or " dread dts
ease" the earth seaming with produAs OF
all kinds.-the staple articles never 30 atun-
dapt, and with more money than ever before
in the country, yet at this time there Is greater
actna sufferiug-more want among the peopir,
less emp!oyment-auL why? rhe money is
held by the few, who, for lack OF confidence,
hoard, or invest 10 Government bonds The
producer gets less for his products than the ac-
tua cost of production. Trade aud buSioess
are at a complete stand still, aud men are gong
about, willing to work for bread, but unable to
procure employment, because capital is locked
nm. and there is no work, There is some.
thing rotten 10 the state OF Denmark surely,
and the country, under radical rule, is fast be-
ing ruined, and, until there is radical change !:
until there is return to the paths our fathers
trod aud intelligence aod virtue again assert
their sway, 90 promise of relief can be held
on, The pcople are awakening to this concu
sion, aud from all parts of the land the cry
goes up for reform; and with a statesman aud
natr;ot as the leader, victory will pearch upon
the banners of the army of the Republic ohce
more, and, after the fourth OF March next,
peace, happiness and prosperity viii dwell III
the land.
After the above was in type, we found the
following article, upon the same subject IN toe
Baltimore Gaznte, and it so much more fully
carries out the idea, that we rcpubllsh 1t III
full:
For the first time 10 the history of the
country skilled mechanics are leaving the
United States because they cannot get work.
The tide of immigration which set so strnuiy to-
ward our shores during the last ten or fifteen
years is on the ebb, and the hardy, adventu'
rous EnglisbmaD, freshman end Sco:chman
now turas to the English colonies, Australia
and the New Dominion instead OF 10 New ork,
the Great West and the South. Bismarck DO
longer troubles himself about keeping his Ger
man brethren at home as food for powder III
some European war. The men in every couo-
try of Europe who are anxious to better their
condition no lougcs look to the Ualted States
as the place 10 which TO Do it. This is an alarm.
ing sign of the times. But there is sign still
more alarming. Our OVID workmen and skilled
mechanics are beginning to leave Us. OnIy a
few DAYS ago an advertisement was printed 10 .
New York journal asking for ono hundfed
stonecutters and masons to go to Scotland
Aud we are told that at an early hour 90 the
morning it appeared In print the entire SIDE
walk where it was directed TO apply was block
ed with men, all having the appearance OF the
hard working aboror. Policemen soon appear
ed 10 preserve order, and when the door was
opened there was rush, but the po!lccmcr
would allow only dozen to pass 10 at 'me.
In short time the names Of double the num-
Der required we're taken down, irom whom the
selection will be made. Aluoug the applicants
were several old men who were informed they
could not De taken. They therefore sadly re-
tired. One huodred and fifty neu, the number
REQUIRED, will sail within the week to fad IN a
foreign country the work aad bread they cannot
obtain at home.
10 the single city Of New York to-day there
are thirty thousand mechanics ami workiuguen
who would go to Scotland or anywhere else to
find employment. In the whole country there
are at least one million men who would gladly
Join them. In this city, which Is probably up
on better financial foundation than any city
in the Union, which has hardly been touched
bv the tide of speculation that swanpsd the
whole country dufiog the last ten years. thouS.
ands of mco can fud no work to do, and are
with their families CD the verge Of starvation.
There must be some under lying cause for this
disastrous condition of affairs Ii we had been
deseated by war or by what are called the vlsl-
tations OF Providence, such as pestilcDce, un-
propitous seasons, or the upheaval of the de
structive elements of nature, it would be easy
to account for it !; but We have not. For tee
years our harvests have been abundant; iac
earth has poured forth marvellous riches. Oar
granarics have been full but our people ~
been starving. Our million of acres have a..
ly greaned under their load of wealth; bat the
shadow of famine has been thrown across hun
dreds of thousands Of homes in all our large
cities The accessories fife have hardly ever
been SO cheap; but they have never been hard
er to get. Clothing has DOT been SO low for
half generation; but men and women and
children we're never poorer clad. Why is it?
There is one reason aud only one-the misrule,
the bad legislation, the crime, the corruption
and the rascality of the party 10 power. This
is where the whole responsibility rests. 1t is
idle to 60 back to the war and lay the blame
there. Every political economist IRON Adam