The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-09-21

over tnen lnau IL Is now. As attorney |
ror party, l had the building where the
First National Bank is now located. Of
fered for sale by the Sheriff 1t was ap-
praised at 81 900, and no man bid two
thirds of that amount for it, The same
could not be bought to-day for
S. 900; and yet men will ask, was ever
such times seen as those of to-day2
The war took a million of men, and |
made consumers and destroyers of prop |
erty of them, instead of producers. OF
course this ran prices up. These men |
came home and found labor in demand,
at fabulous prices. Before the war it was
often difficult to get work at fifty cents
day; after the war labor was in demand
at from 81 so to s. per day. Many boys
who never did a weeks work, went into
the army. Thousands of them came out
Injured to toll, and they went to work.
In few years supply overrun demand,
and prices of labor, and of products, went
down with a crash.
But here come your Cary, Deviltrick
and Blandy, and say that over-produc-
ton is impossible, if Government will
only give US enough money.
will illustrate this in way that every
woman, boy and girl in the country, can
understand it, if these great political
economists have not sense to compre-
hend it.
The present summer the black berry
crop was most abundant. Many women,
boys and girls in the country, went to
picking blackberries, and bringing them
to Jackson. Does any one pretend that
the people of Jackson had not money
enough to pay for all the blackberries
they needed2 Soon every family had all
the berries canned that they thought
they would need for year. Some put
up as high as 35 gallons. Still the sup
ply came in. Two or three persons
would call at nearly every house, every
day, with buckets of fine berries But
everybody had put up all they wanted.
If they had had barrels of money they
would not have bought any more berries.
Persons with buckets of berries could
not carry them home as they did not
need them there, and sooner than throw
them out, they would take ten cents per
gallon-ten cents for a bucket full, and
thus prices went clear down. Now sup
pose the berry crop had been short.
Every housekeeper would have been run.
ming after the berry pickers, and bidding
up, higher than her neighbor, in order to
get the berries.
This holds good in everything. Fifteen
to twenty furnaces have thousand tons
each of iron to sell. The agent Of each
furnace is at every foundry and rolling
mill in the land. In order to make sale
the pig iron is put down to the very low
est living price, and then more than hal
the iron must remain unsold, because i
is not needed.
Take another illustration. Womer
make better school teachers than men
Those who desire that all men and wo
men, shall have an equal chance in the
world, inquire why it is that the wages o
women teachers are about one-third low
er than the wages of men. They say, i
women 40 the same work as teacher
that Wen do, why not pay them the same
wages? Right here comes in this ques
ton of supply and demand. Womer
have fewer fields open for employment
than men, and the field of teachers il
crowded with them. Suppose should
advertise for a certain number of teach
ers. A large number of men and womer
present themselves. The men demand
fifty dollars per month. If / refuse t.
give it, they can get into Office, or act a
clerks, or find employment in various oc
cupations. One woman says she viii
teach for forty dollars. There are doz
en- others who cannot earn thirty dollar
in any other field of industry open t,
them, and they will agree to take tha
price.
The man who goes around and tells tn
people that the election of Tilden, o
f Hayes, or Cooper, or Bill Allen, or Vance
or Neal, or Jim Aleshire, will control tn
; great law Of supply and demand-th
law of production and consumption, ant
make either good or bad times, is a fool
knave or a demagogue, or more hkel.
all three combined.