The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10
SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION.

The population of the United States is es-
timated at 100000; some.place it as high
as 100000. OF this population it is esti-
mated that the radica, policy of contraction,
shrinkage and bankruptcy has sent fully
100000 willing workers into the ranks of
idlers who are now not only not earning
wages, but are to great extent tax upon
the charity of the country. OF all the ours
es that radicalism has inflicted upon the
land, that which struck down its Industries
and deprived willing workers of the means
of support is doubtless the most far
reaching in its devilish and dubious
effects, and is well worthy of
careful study. If the radical policy has
thrown out of employment 100000 of
workers who were earning an average per
diem of 81, the loss represents the annual
sum of 81 500, 100000. If this curse has been
going on for five years, then the grand ag-
gregate of loss swells to the sum of 81, 500,-
100000. If these people have been prevent
ed from earning that much money, they
have also been prevented from spending it;
and the amount, vast as it is, represents
only a suficiency to meet the essential
necessities of living. If, then, these people,
unable 10 earn n livelihood, have
been thrown upon the charities OF
the country, and such Is the case
for they have lived, then, instead of earning
the cost of living, they have been a tax upon
the country to the extent, which if we
place their support at prison fare, such as
criminals obtain in jails and penitentiaries,
OF 81 ,095, 000, 900 a year, and for five years
the amount reaches the enormous sum OF
So, AIS, 600, 900. With such a vast number of
people out of employment and unable to
purchase anything it is not surprising that
there has been large over supply of all
descriptions of goods, wares and merchan-
disc, and that business is dull and languish-
ing; and it is safe to affirm that business
can not revive to an extent of general
prosperity until these people thrown out
of employment by the accursed policy of the
radical party are restored to employment.
1t has been shown upon radical authority
that the stealings of the party reached the
enormous sum of 500, O00,0O annually. 1t
has been shown that under Grant every de-
partment of the government was debauched,
aud that thieves were his favorites and the
chief supporters of his administration, and
it has been shown that the radical party,
ousted by the people by majority of more
than quarter of million of votes, managed
to retain possession of the government
by frauds unparalleled and perjuries such as
haForo dofnI ornv,fpOfnnno Gill Mill
all these crimes resting upon it, the ruin
which the party inflicted upon the business
of the country, and for which 1t will have to
answer, outweighs them all, for it represents
an increase of crime that 1t would be diff
cult to exaggerate, an increase of poverty
that startles every observer, a shrinkage of
values that is represented by billions,
and a prostration of industries that
has been felt in every communi-
ty. 1t would be well for the people to con-
slder the direct effect of the radical
policy upon the subject of consumption.
We have shown that the loss to the country
in wages for five years amounts to the sum
of $4,000 900. This, at 81 per bushel,
would purchase 1900, O0O,O 600 bushels of
wheat-an amount equal to more than
eighteen times the present crop of the coun-
try. 1t is difficult to grasp in all of its mag
nitude such curse, and still the country
has been compelled to endure it. The loss
to the country by throwing 5000 900 people
out of employment for sve years represents
in hogs, at $l2 each, 625. 10000 head
equal to the slaughter, ct the present
rate, of 123 years. 1t represents
at $50 per head, l5o,OOoOOO of beef cattle,
enough to supply the world. We might ex.
tend indefinitely illustrations of the curse
of radical rule, but enough has been written
to set the people to thinking, and to demand
with emphasis that the radical party shall
be dismissed from power.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE