The daily gazette., 1878-03-28
For the Gazette.
Hard Times-A Voice from the
Far West.

Mr.. Cumming, of Kansas thus writes
of the cause and cure of hard times.
"Rum, false religion and tobacco are
poisoning virtues but not the great tree
OF evil that overshadows our beautiful
land.
The proper cure for these ! fear lies in
very slow process OF evolution; they
can be uprooted only by education and a
practical endorsement of the proper laws
of propa cation.
"The universal advancement of all
truth is the universal cure of all evil.
Truth is apparently stern, but it is grand
and beautiful, for in it abides the prince
of peace and the queen of harmonies,
and If we would find truth we must
search for it. Find out what has check
ed the demand for all manner of produce
and you will find the cause of our peo-
pies Affections. The people as well as
being the producing are also the con-
suming element, and the people are de-
prived OF the means of purchasing their
requirements.
"In the truth of that last sentence lies
the cause of the idle millions who are
daily increasing, and surely will if relief
comes not soon, teach the world the les
son that the bees must not be abused or
tampered with too much, or they will
swarm and sting. The fact that the peo-
pie cannot purchase their requirements,
is the true Interpretation of our so-called
overproductiOn.
"By an idle bench sits the ragged shoe
maker by motionless loom sits u
weaver who has no shoes the manufac-
turers and producers are not working
half time, and nearly everybody is in
need of produce and goods of all kinds !;
transportation has greatly decreased and
political wise men cry out overspecula-
ton in railroad building. Give us a
plentiful medium of exchange paper
money fills the bill.
One way among many to get it into
circulation would be by internal i'm
provement for until it gets into the
hands of the people, the masses, a cure
is impossible. Greenbacks will cost the
government mere nothing.
Internal improvements will be clear
gam to the nation; for when govern
ment, which is the people, says green
backs shall be the money of the country,
everything will be paid in them and
| everybody will accept it.
The sooner this is brought about the
sooner will everything become prosper
Gus and everybody happy.
The longer the present financial sys.
tenn runs the less prosperous we shall be.
come, the more failures will take place
in every branch of business; the more
| Iubn Will Db tuTOWu Oub Vi tluDlOyIQtnT
the more hunger and suffering will con.
tinue to make drear and desolate the
sunny homes of "this delicious land"
Does not everybody tell us that the
market is glutted with every kind of pro.
ducuon? Does not every body admit
that the producers are thrown idle Oh
that account? And does not common
sense teach us that this glut must be re-
moved by the people? We are compell
ed to cease purchasing because we have
no money and we are compelled to re
main idle because we cannot purchase
then why don't the people command
their servants to issue money, and get il
into the hands of the purchasing ele
ment-the masses?
When that is done the whole ma
chinery will be set in motion. Mer
chants will begin to sell their goods, call
ing for more from the factories. Manu-
factories will be set in motion to supply
the demand, and men be employed
again. transportation will increase anC
railroads prove far better investment
Iron will be in demand once more anC
coal to smelt it. Everybody viii again
be employed, and songs of joy will rise
on every breeze a cheerful word will
fall from every tongue, happy smile
illume every face, and our land become
a paradise for the habitatlon of mankind
where all may live in comparative com
fort and enjoyment"
| Truth SEEKER.