The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-26
COMMUNICATIONS.


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II shOu,d be known of all men
that We will soon have famine for
goods ia this country. You know
that The Jobbers have no stocks to
speak of. Orders were long ago to a
great extent countermandcd, and the
merchants failed to fully stock up,
land have been selling out what
was on hand at low prices. and
the demand is not half supplied
Manufacturers have been idle and
the necessary amount of goods have
not been made with which to supply
the necessities of the people. The
Dealers not having stocked up and
the manufacturers having decreased
the out put OF goods. and with a
demand commensurate to the actual
wants of the people. will come an
Iunsupplied want that will send the
prices skyward in certain lines at
least of manufactured articles with
Out buIDlyiuS tnt bitht u'hoh''
lcaused by such famine. When there
is gross supply of goods on hand
with plenty of money to buy with
yet that money boarded, or mono
,rolized. by certain institutions, SO
the same does not circulate among
1.-THE great masses. hard times and
panic is not caused by a lack OF
confidence as falsely believed, but
is the direct result OF such boarding
| by individuals and the direct mono.
policing by such institutions, witt
mainly the full purpose and intent
to increase business profit ana moth.
ing else to speak OF. AS long as such
monopolization is permitted to exist
Il sort of Trust and nothing else
just so long Will the masses suffer
want at the expense OF the com
'parative few who are doing this.
There Is no lack OF business confid.
ence about 1t, but an inextinguish.
able desire Tor gain, which for O
better name we call Greed.
/ The idea OF the panic being caus.
ed by lack of business confidence
is wholly untrue. 1t was caused By
that GitEED for GAIN OF which
/ have just spoken and nothing else
| Lack OF confidence was not the
cause. but the result of wild specula.
ton at the stock and in some mon.
lcyed centers. The sufferers mainly
were the innocent ones, as they most
always are. but these conditions are
fast passing and only retarded, by
those who desire to make a big
profit out of existing conditions.
know who they are and so do you
plainly speaking they are FIG and
LITTLE WALL STREETS all over
the country. and by these | do moi
mean the. dealers in money only, but
let every one examine himself and
see. Whoever Is without sin let him
cast the first stone We are All
short. in our acts. The present con
ditions from facts are and have
been absolutely unnecessary. What
are some Of the facts? me three
products petroleum., cotton and
food stuffs for the past month have
brought In the American people from
foreign trade alone, more than
$20, 900, 10000. more than the same
month last year as shown by Stats
Ties. This makes an income for
these products alone for that month
of about $l30,OO0, 10000. Now If we
add TO this the exports OF Manu-
factured articles amounting to a
large sum OF money, and further
take into account, the fact that the
great falling Off OF luxurious i'm
ports, thereby resulting in the
greater use of American manufac-
tured goods, and the keeping and
distributing OF this money among
the Manufacturers at home and thus
employing labor at home but ex-
cuse divergence, instead OF their
continuing to thus employ labor,
1t was and is now unemployed, to
the great detriment of the Merchants
ana consuming masses and will re-
suit In the overvorking OF labor
at extremely low wages, because
when a man has practically nothing
20 live on after being out of work.
he Will work for practically nothing
rather than to starye and see his
family suffer. Soon will come the
FAMINE OF goods spoken Of above.
No man should be Dessimiss.
nessimism has also contributed to
the present conditions, at least AZ