The daily gazette., 1879-07-24

ulu HUt l6dVB IDiIduSipnla lfnmeulaLeIy
upon his delivering Green to the officers
was taken 70 the hospital. j shall ask
the papers which published Green's
statements to publish this in refutation.
With great respect.
J. r. ALLMoND, Mayor.
For the Gazette. .r.t .
r '.Supply and Dennnd.'' r
MR.. EDIToR:-I would he glad to avail
myself of the columns Of the ReDuJiicdn
to criticise Mr.W ellis views on the above
subject but that paper is only open to
such criticisms as will make blind repub-
icans worse blind than they now seem
to be. 80 l appeal to you as the cham
pion of fair play. Mr.. w. claims that
labor has produced too much with the
aid of machinery.
Will Mr.. w. tell us of 10O, 900 people
living in the United States who have II
mean laborers) too much of the necessi-
ties, comforts, enjoyments and luxuries
of life? Where do they live Mr.. Wells
We would mako an excursion TO see
them and learn how they obtained the
great overplus you speak OF. j have
never heard of such d community Per
haps you refer to the million of beggars
that yet infest every STATE in the Union.
y
cannot get fair share of the productions
of his labor! If he could get it feel sure
he would consume it.
Then ask you, Is it not fault of dis
tribution, rather than over production. 1
call your attention to speech of Hon.
w. Townsend in Congress, on the Con-
fiscation Act; called the Resumption
Act; another ruinous blunder by the re-
publican party. He says we paid to
foreign countries one hundred and FIVE
millions of dollars in coin every year
from 1861 to 1875 for merchandise over
and above all our exports, and then in
1876 we were still in debt 300 million
dollars to foreign nations for the balance
of merchandise we had bought from
them. Mr.. w. says we have produced
too much. 1 want to know If those very
years named above were not tho most
happy and prosperous years for labor
that we ever knew in this country.
And If so that we as nation consum-
ed 1900 million dollars worth of foreign
merchandise in Is years, over and above
all we made ourselves, how can 1t be Mr..
Wells, that now with bali of the people
only at work we cannot consume half of
what is made. .i al y i.
Mr.. w. there is a "nigger" in that wood
pile of yours somewhere certain, scare
him out, our people need to be clothed,
fed and housed better than they now
are, and if you provide way for that
you will do better than to provide sys-
tenn by which labor must live upon hall
of 1t now does at starvation wages with
half of the people idle as you admit.
You will find if you increase the abb ity
Of obtaining the enjoyments of life, that
you increase the consumption of al
kinds of products, and my political eco
nomy tells me that peoples ability t,
consume, has only been limited by thei
ability to earn by labor, the means =
purchase the products of each other
labor. and that keeps business in flu
tide of prosperity, If not stopped az
now is. You propose to reduce the labo
to five hours per day, as remedy t
over production. The people who labo
now ten hours are hard set to pay On.
rent and live; now if you reduce then
one half, how are they to live then?
If we consider that the whole peopl,
working five hours per day, earn tn,
same wages that Is now earned by on
hat of the people, then where IS tn
benefit? l see no advantage whatever
to the community only, that of hal
work, half pay and half starvation
and God knows we have en- nough of tina
now. ..... n... I'D. DO -
In the name of humanity, Mr.. Wells
do try again, and see if there is not SOM
other way to feed and clothe the people
beside recommending them to the tende
mercies OF starvation.
That internal blind of "TOO mucl
machinery, too many people and to-
much production" Is enc of the blackes
acts that the black republicans eve
blackened fair name with. The trut
Is, there never was too much OF til
conf, rts of live pro duced yet, and ca
not be with all the Improvements ths
will be made in Que hundred years I
come by machinery and labor.
] would suggest IA far better and MOI
humanil arian remedy for hard times am
unusual distribution than you seem
see, and if we cannot get the opportun
ty to use the press, / propose to discus
it with you Ill the City Hall.
Do you remember that we had larg
volume of money during those years {
prosperity, production and consumptio
named.. above? then all the people ha
work al ten hours per day, and We nevt
: heard of over-production until aft
: 1875. Why? Because everybody ma
work and got cash for il and bought iii
orally, and that consumed all that W;
made and hundreds Of millions of dolla
worth OF foreign merchanandise year
beside all we made, raised and sci
abroad In exchange for what we bougl
in part.
} Then change came over the face
, this great country; instead of presperi,
there was failures after failuaes, the.
did not come until those infamous frau'
, upon the business interests of the cou
, try were perpetrated by set Of republ
can vampires at Washington passed Il
. Contra ction Acts, which. together Wi
J the Resumption Act completed the d
, struction of the business of the count
s.Ix Srt al v.~
of business, ami forcing mills and ia
! tories to stop work, and turning nat
! from industry and thrift to idleness al
= poverty.
Look that wav, Mr.. W., and see If "
can't see how to go back and start aires
| with the machinery you republica
] ruined without call or cause. You are
l blame for 95 per cent. OF all this woe.
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