Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-13
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lUe CAVSG~TNk RkMe0Y.
The cause of disease, or what is
nearly synonymous, the kind of dis
ease should always be known in or
derto ascertain the proper remedy
to apply. This proposition is plain,
applied to ailments Of the human
body. Tho same principle applies
with equal force to governments
to the ailments of society.
AT this time, both in this country
and in Europe, indeed throughout
countries where civilization especial
ly exhibits its highest types, there is
. diseased condition ofsociety-mark-
ed disease. Millions oflaborers have
comparatively no employment; there
is stagnation in business; the chan
nels Of commerce corrode from mac
ton; the world of enterprise that
builds lines of railroads; that erects
new FORCES and new spindles and
builds up new towns and cities, is
dormant; the ventures of capital i'm
to lines Of trade or the purchase Of
lands on speculation are no longer
heard of. What is the trouble?
1t may be said with truth, that
while the fever of war was upon us
there was fever Of initiation and as
an inevitable result of this, high liv-
ing, reckless expenditure of the
plenteous dollars that were in every
mans pockets, and that after the war.
while the number of dollars was con-
tracted and the dollar made more
valuable, the evil habit of our ex-
IRENE expenditures chung to us and
we did not put toff our extravaganza
in any thing like the proportion we
ought to, in order to enable us to
economize for the payment of the
debts we had contracted during the
revolutionary days of war. This
is doubtless all true and hun.
dreds Of thousands of these careless,
thoughtless ones, have gone down in
financial ruin and in some cases have
dragged down with them many reas-
onably prudent men on account of
the fact that commercial men have
necessarily to depend much upon
each other.
There has all along for years pos
itively seemed little or no remedy
for this, except what rested solely in
appliances to be used by each indi.
vidual.
Having drifted away, financially,
to sea, into harborless sea, or rather
one so nearly harborless that years
alone, Of patient toll could ever hope
to bring us back into port again, il
was only those who would make the
personal self sacrifice to allowance
their daily rations, that could eve,
hope to make the harbor of resump.
ton safely.
Now however it seems to us there
is another cause at work, which gives
the country, and not only this coun.
try, but others, the dumb ague, so to
speak. Now we have almost reached
the harbor after our long wandering
upon the deep, we are about ready
to meet our creditors and look them
squarely in the face and with hap.
Ply, honest countenance say, bring on
our promises to pay, We are ready tc
pay them in coin as we agreed to do
Having reached this point the people
Of the land are astounded with the
announcement that, while they were
at sea, without their advice or con.
sent, and without their knowledge,
silver has been dethroned and that
consequently the means with which
to redeem is lessened one-fourth OF
one-half, as the case may be and
we are still 1T sea; our having ar.
rived at safe port is all fallacy.-
If the devil was ever responsible for
anything, he is for that game OF
squeezing by the money bags. Happi-
ly that gigantic game of swindle has
over wrought itself and is to be
checkmated.
This is the prime cause of the pres
emit disease, the unemployment of Ia.
Dor, the stagnation in business and in
enterprises.
There runs through the whole ma
ton the feeling of the utmost conf
dence in our ability to resume, to get
down to solid basis soon, if we shall
have the legal tender money of the
constitution, gold and silver. Give
us this and confidence is restored.-
The merchant will say now l may
buy goods, for they will not go down
upon my hands. The manufacturer
will say am no longer to be subject
to the fluctuations of an irredecmsble
currency and I know on what found
alton l am building. The capitalist
will no longer be only anxious to
loan his money simply, but will en-
bark it in the various enterprises
which this grand and prolific country
offers as good investments. In brief
capital seeing the financial founda-
ton solid, will geek the avenues Of
commerce and improvements of all
kinds will be commenced and labor
no longer stand idle.