Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-07-14
The Signs Of the Times.
To the Editor Of the Journal:
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A year since Leo Miller, Lancaster, Crook
or, Hull, Blood, Cove. Sims, Pierce and
company, were perambulating our State, CON
temptuously declaring that resumption, on
the day named by law, was impossible, and
that the republicans knew it. and were only
deceiving the people when they declared il
would be done. They further asserted that
if the attempt to resume was made. il would
be an gnominous failure and could not he
maintained month. Further, that il re-
sumption did take place, as result Of such
resumption there would be a greater stringen-
cy in the money market, shrinkagc in all
values.
What of the result? On the second day of
January, not on the first, Chat being a legal
holday,) resumption took place, and has
been steadily maintained from that time till
now, more than six months. There has
been no stringency in the money market as
these croakcrs and rantcrs declared, no
shrnkage in values either in labor or prop
erty,-but on the other hand, the results from
resumption have been most propitious, re-
storing confidence among all business men in
all parts of our country. stimulating every
industry. so that to-day the concurrent tcsti-
mony of all the leading Journals of our
country. without distinction of party i, that
resumption has placed our nation lis feet
again and on n basis that cannot he moved.
THE domestic business of our country is
simply enormous, say the New York papers.
Real estate is advancing. land large prep
arations for building are being made" ''The
prices of labor have largely i'm
proved and good workmen are full
ly employed. say the same papers
The leading journals of New England teen
with articles of the same import. .The cot
ton mills are calling in their help" saws the
Boston Post, ''our foundries and machine
shops are hives Of industry, while our shoe
factories right i'll the midst Of n grand
harvest. Business is here and this time has
come to stay. The dreams Of sevcnty-one
are beginning to be realized" All this from
the same Boston Post. The same is true of
our own cotton, wooden. and shoe manufac-
turtles. Wool is more than thirty per cent
higher than last year. Our cotton mills are
running extra hours in order to keep up with
the demand for goods, while the shipments
from our shoe manufactures are double what
they were last year The invoice of leather
for the fall trade, which begins now (mid-
summer. is largely in advance of any amount
ever before received in the history of the
trade in our State. That resumption brought
about this improvement is admitted by all
business men. They admit it and rejoice at
it. For it the country is indebted to the re-
publican party that enacted the laws that
brought it about, in spite of the combined
opposition of the democratic and green
back parties.
Now one word to farmers, mechanics and
- Al
that brought about resumption. and the ben
eicent results above enumerated. that have
quckened all our industries, or the men and
their allies who are named at the head of this
article, who not only predicted that rcsump-
tion could not take place, and that if it did
it would be most disgraceful failure, iniuri-
Gus to business and labor? These men not
only made such predictions, but did all in
their power to prevent resumption: and to-
day are doing all that lies in their hands TO
do, to injure the business of our people, to
create distrust. by arraying class against
class, thus driving capital from our midst
These men have deceived you once, shall
they again!
They deceived you in regard to resump-
ton, showing that they were either ignorant
or vicious. That they were and are gno-
rant in regard to finance there can be no
doubt. Men without businessmen who
never had any business-what should they
know about finance, or the laws that pertain
TO business! OF course they cheated you.
They are doing so to-day, going about the
State, into shop and field, accosting the men
at the plough and tho lathe, telling them that
they are engaged in calling low and mental,
and that higher calling belongs to them.
| ask you farmers and laborers. whether
in shop or field, if such men are not
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itself. 1t is shy and coy. Can you
expect it will come forward and seek invest
ment if you follow the lead of such men and
their allies as are named above? If you Join
such men in creating a war Of classes, de-
nouncing capital and capitalist, can you,
ought you, to expect business? Would YOU
place your means within the reach of men
whose daily business 1t was and is to de-
nounce you? Who will build stores and
houses, to be at the mercy of communist
mobs Influenced by your Leo Millers, Brick
Pomeroys, Hulls, Bloods, Kearneys, all lead
ing greenbackers? If capitalists will not
build stores, factories, and railroads, whose
fault is it, if You follow the lead of such
men, and vote to place the government in
their hands and under their control?
Cove, King and Lancaster, at Skowhegan on
the Fourth. harangued the people in the same
strain as did the French communists at the
close of the German French war, which re-
suited in the shedding Of blood and the de-
struction of millions of property. "Capital
makes war upon the poor, and we will burn
it up" said the French communist. 1.-The rich
oppose the poor and we will kill them so at
il they went. "There is a war between capital
and labor. the rich Cypress the poor" said the
worthy trio at Skowhegan. Nearly the words
of the French communists. Where did they
learn the lesson! Can power or business
come to the State by following such men.
Farmers, business men, and laborers, let us
consider the signs of the times. s.
Political.