Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-23

there be any, were starving or begging FOR bread.
If the poor man wished TO exchange his hired
shaniy for psstiAl residence, all he world have
to do would be to apply to tue .cTernment for
enough to build one. and s.iaightway he is IN
funds. The tramp who now sleep, 10 the sta ion
house or under y tip-cart. because he hiss not
money enough & engage u suite of roome at the
Brunswick, would fed hi, hsrdships over, and
with abundance of greenhscks Ia his pocket he
would no longer have TO puroin his shirts from
rural clothes-nes, or yet his board through sg
gressye demon tiaiioUs at the back doors of
frightened housewives. With such a boon, f nam
cial emhar a-sments woad Be no more, em1ezzle-
me nts would cease, defalcstons be uuheard Of
and robbery q lost art. For all temptation 10 do
wrong IN that respect would be over, and honesty
would be As mucn matter of course rs honor
among thieves.
But Just here a horrible thought arises. 1t had
seemed as II under he new discovery the primal
curse had been removed, aud that other A ne j.
cans-.bes des those fOrtuLste ones who came 10 o
tie country with whole suit of clothes on their
backs-wUuld be absolsed from the necessity Of
eslIlng their bread by the sweat Of their brows.
1t had seemed as II they would only have to buy
what they wanted, with the money which the gov
erDment tht hai captured would be so ready To
supply them Bat, alas the uuwelcOme thought
obu udes itself that re l. still work that must tie
done by somebody. All may be able u live on the
lat of the land n far as money Is concerned, but
som. BODY must MI The soil aUi bring its Pr oducts
to ma ket, OF BeIheT lat nor lean can ne obtained,
aud all viii starVe. All may he able to have pala-
ua residences, out : mebody must build them be-
fore they can be occupied. lie same necessity
exists rs to the custom houses aud post offices The
forts and the navles. Somebody siust build them,
and they cannot be built without work. Even The
psper which Is changed into money must first he
made and then pIuteo, and that entails work.
W no Is to do 1t We do not happen 10 know of
any one WHO is anxious TO work, even for money,
II he can have an abundance of II without work.
Possibly the leprous, amend eyed hesthen .hinese
might be willing to do 80, but ia The new order OF
things be Is tO be prescribed. But work must he
done, or even with an abundance OF money all
would eventually have to 20 naked, with no roof
over their head, and siaIve t. death, with no
chance OF a bun al. surely. this i, bad state of
affairs for "a nation Of paper mlliOnaiies to con-
template
something must be done to avert such a catas-
trophe. Mon,y can no longer be an inducement to
work, for, under tue arrangements of the era
that can he had iur the ASKING. Have got to
admit that all this good money, with 1.-The stamp
OF tue government upon II, etc, under any
circumstances become practically valueless rs an
incentive to labor Have We got 10 90 away back
almost to the starting point, and learn again the
fact that that which costs nothing is worth moth
ing, even If 1t be in the form Of money shall We
be Obliged to admit thai tue value OF gold and sill
yer Is not gwen 10 It by the government Coinage,
eu that II esents the cost Of tue labor la It's
production, aud that Otherwise IT would be plactI-
cally worthless surely, TINS Is a sad ending to
the new scheme wh Gu promised so much happ.-
ness 10 a poor, down-trodden and oppressed peo-
pie! But, apparently, to tins Complexion II must
come at last.
Whenever the greenbscks, like Robinson Cru
soes 'cO@re" money, become so plenty to be
vslueiess then the farmer the shoemaker, tue
tailor, tue meChsi c, tue mHnuf tcturtr tue Ouid-
er, the common laborer, aud The whole lndu trial
force must depend upon something else tor the
supply oi their wants. They must again 20 TO
work, produce what they want for themselves, or
something else OF value which others want anu
which tnty may exchange Tor the articles that