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Business And The War

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
July
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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It scema to ua, too, tliat whaterer aspect the war raay fUBUine, business, to a tolerably prosperóos ex-tent, múst be done. We a-re told by a Western man wlio bas h:id large opportunity for furming an intelligent opinión, that thcro are provisious enough iu tlie freo States at the present time to subsist. cvcry man, woman, md child for two ycars, without giithering a siioaf or slaugbtering nn niiinal, and that the erop of wheat was never more promising tlian dosv. Nothing but sorac calamity of ingoot or foul weuther ean prevent the gnthering of magnificent erop. Thosa provihions aro more tlniu to nefd, and we are selling thom to foreign countriei, wliile we aro buving very iittle in fêtiH'm We ara, aetually, in a time of war, produeing uiore provisions tlian we need, nnd ara receiving gold f'roin abraad by every ete.mier. By the hands of the Governmeut all this gold is to ho paid into tlnv hands of tlie peoplo. The peoplo vrhir produce must have elothes to wear, and they have tlie meaiia to pay for them aid for their groceries, and this makea businoss. liusinesg cannot stand still, eveit if the war goes on, and the lcss we th'tnk about the war - furthor than to see that it be efficiently carried on- and tho more we look after businoss, tho botter we shall get along.

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Old News
Michigan Argus