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What Is Really Wanted

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
March
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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lt is not the stimulus of more mom-v that is wanted to awaken once more the torpid aud paralyzed energies of the nation. This is a truiüin which it seems irapossible any man of sonso uud refieotion can deny. Mere moncy is absolutely plenty everywhere. It eau uow be hired tor four por cent. per antmm every day in the yetir. If a car load of greenbacks was run into the center ot auy town in the country, and proclauiation made that they could be had iu any quantities to suit, by anybody and everybody who wanted to borrow, and who could give good socurity tor their paymont, in vvhat wiiy would the present situation be improved V Would the proposition bring out a single customer, creato one purchaser, or set one wheel of industry in tuotion 't We know it would be of no more utility iu reestablishiug trade and prosperity in that town than the introduction of a car of sawdust. But if a solitary individual was to come into one of our towns in the K;ist or in the West, and offer to buy a huudred thousand dollars worth of its pro ducts, whother corn, pork, irou, or calicó, and have not one dollar in inoney, but only the note or bill of some good commurcial house payable in six nu milis, we all know a sudden spring would be given to the activity of the town, and idleness would be supplanted suddenly by occupation. What is wanted, Uien, to start tho wheels of trade, is not more cheap mouey, but purchasers and customers. If congressinen eau do anything townrds creating them, they will do something towards roviving business, employing the idle, and feeding the hungry. But this eau only bo done by restoring confidenco and establishing 'trade and finanee on a fixed and unchangeable basis ; and, abovo all, by being honest about it. This threatening to swindlo and threatening to uheat, which we have heardof sinco Uongress assem bied in December, has a tondeney to unsettle overything, and acts directly to the prejudice of every iudustry in the country. It operates as a constant oppression upon the producer, and upon the wotking man. - JSeio York Sim. Tho greonbackers report sundry victories in recent charter eloctions. The disease will have its run : meaeles like.

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Old News
Michigan Argus