Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-08
(Frsm the Toledo Evening BeS.)
HONESTY AND COURAGE.
rho DistributIOn of La Dor the FIrst
PrObIeIn Of the Hour.
Hoyv n sk keIston was Sh aiken in th'
Face Of "a Hard -NHOuoy Man.

had listened to the Thursday and Friday
evening speeches Of the Nationals in thsii
late Con ,cntion; "Those fellows blow {
gsud deal, but they don't explain how w
are to got the money when the GoverR
msnt has printed it,"
Aye, there's the rub The platform il
silent upon it, and so was every speaker
except Mr.. Alis, OF Wisconsin, who said
ave demand that the greenback money
shall be set ahoat BY buying up or paying
of our debt" II this is the plan, will moi
the poor fellows on Summit street and
around Bridge and Perry streets, whose
needs are desperate, still be without dol
lar? They don't hold any Government
bonds or obligations The bonds are held
by Europeans, by our National Banks and
savings banks, as securities Tor the deposits
OF widows aud orphans and the inlirm
aud by elcemosyuary institutions, and q
small class of men who, from nge ur wealth
or profession, are not managers Of CONNER
cinl or manufacturing concerns through
which money can only speedily flow to the
needing. No nctive biisiness man owns
bonds because they do not yield an income
10 be compared with that of an ordinary
small business. III the moneyed men aud
reliable business men cannot keep the
present volume OF currency active, profit
able to Themselves, M they think, by loans,
by building more railroads or houses, or
by running more manufactures and mines
what sense is there in putting into their
hands asgreatcr volume? Bcsiles too,
it is remembered that there never was
more business activity in the country, at
large. than in 1870, and that that year we
had less paper money, by several millions,
than now and that now we have nearly
200,0O0,000 in gold ready to flow into cir
| culntion the monument the gresnback
touches par 1t is remembered, also, that
it was hard work to keep volume of only
S207 100000 in paper money at par in
! 1904 year OF thrift. Now, these things
| restrain wise business men from joining in
/ the cry Tor more paper money.
The government cannet issue the none Y
directly to the people, for it is no longer
employing some members OF nearly every
family in the land The legions in each
State who tor years drew their rAtions and
piles of fresh greenbacks from generous
Uncle Sam, have been discharged, and the
pay OF those now employed is provided for
|
ports Would you have Lucas county and
the government pay their expenses by
printing money? or, by the present wise
method
So, it is clear that Mr.. Allis' plan de.
pends, afrer all, on the "money power"
whom lie teaches us to damn as tyrants.
Would not the adoption Of the vulgar
motto, Root hog, or die" have been
about the wisest one for this Convention ?
Is there any answer to the clerks question
except this: every dollar must be got by
earning or borrowing it from individuals
not the government-just as it is now? Is
it not about time for men to see that what
ever scheme may be proposed to restore
our former activity, the government must
be reckoned OF a passive and not an acti We
and controlling agency, as it was up to the
time OF paying the current expenses of the
war, or say 1858? And should they not
see that if they cannot get work from the
moneyed men in the cities they must
took elsewhere? Is it not apparent then
Mr.. Editor, that the first problem Of the
day is not the printing OF more money, nol
the kind OF money we may pay our bonds
in twenty five years hence, but
THE DISTRIBUTION AND EQUALIZATION OF
LABOR
/ don't want the wealth OF this grand
country to consist in cheap labor, like
Europe, but in cheap living. The laborer,
should understand that unless they glut
the labor market in cities they can gel
wages that will enable every one of them
to live comfortably; and, that ii is only uhe,
they croud into cities, that they render it posi-
bic for capital 10 take cdpantage of them.
When the elevators are overlooking with
grain and men are starving right across
the street, is it not pa in that they are al
the wrong end of the golden stream
Show me man who is hungry and cold
at the other end of the harvest stream, and
| I'll show you man too lazy to plant and
too dishonest to trust with horsewhip
But men say that they have no means Ia
go into the country. Now, did you ever
know wretch too poor to go to CaliiorniG
in the gold fever? Said friend to me
You tell the ragged fellows who crowd the
Police Station that thirty-iive million dol
lars in gold were dug out of Minnesota las
year, and that thirty-five million more are
in sight for next year, and there will be
well-trodden path from Toledo to the
wilds of that State in less than month
But, il you stop and explain that this S35,
100000 in gold represents the value of the
wheat which Minnesota farmers are able
to export, after supplying themselves
(Which is the TRUTH and that every hun
CRY man whs will go there and join in the
labor OF producing the wheat can share il
the money it Yields, the enthusiasm oil the
crowd will subside and the hegirn vii
end.
There is something in mems minds tina
makes them choose to starve in n garret j
there iS II chance to see lirst-clnss fire
wedding or funeral, or to hear the min
strcls and murder trials, rather than hold
n plow on prairie and feast on the fat o.
the land. The poor must learn lat brenC
comes out Of the soil, and not out of citiel
or statutes.
We must have reports of the labor mar
kct Just as we have ont of the wheat mar
ket. One is just as easily made as tn,
other, il the laborer will help do it. Tn,
only commendable plank in the Nationa
platform is the one demanding labor sta
tisticS. Put each man in his proper plac,
and there is n living for all. Wise fisher,
men drop their hooks and drag their nett
rhere The fish are; and, because they canno
find them in the winter season, they do no
damn the fish commissioner and fisher,
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lake rs there we're last October, and ther,
is more money in the country than ther,
was in 1870. Give us the right atmos
pheric condition and put the seines at TIN
right point, aud who doubts the result
Give the country the right mental conditio,
by dispelling the pale terror at tn = tornad,
in 1873, the alarm from the labor riots il
1877, the fear fr0m recurrent threats OF re
pudiation, and let the laborers stand at III
right points, and who doubts the result?
There is in The Mirror and Farmer tn,
leading paper in New lIampShire-of Feb
23d, u letter from Sutlor, Mermac county
that State, giving list of some ftiec
farms in that county which have been fo
years without tenants; farms on wkicl
Sires, now dead, have reared great famiie
whose members are scattered. The CORES
pondent, large property. holder, says:
I'VE have frequently offered, withou
the offer being accepted, the whole croI
on good land, to that class Of persons VIII,
cannot find anything TO do
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