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Show JUST BARELY LIVING. V Trade in the eastern states, where the great mass of tha people live, is barely holding its own, which is a bad sign. If tha people have reached the point where the, best they can do la to live, it ahowa a lamentable depression, And tha wisest financiers of the east do not presume to fix he responsibility for it ' There haa been no failure of crops ; :. no floods, jo drouths, no epidemics to wagta the people; peo-ple; no threata of foreign war. Have we become like the Chinese t Deduced to a point where work has become perpetual and it ia all merely that we ean live from day to, day ( ' Tha senate and house are considering reciprocity and the tariff. ' What ff elf Meet There is a mighty field for labor, but there is nothing to pay the laborer with. The authorities last week assured us that there was in real circulation circu-lation in the country an amount of money equal to $35 per capita. There muat have been a mistake about that. There Is not half that sum. The gold combines have mora than half that sum tied np and the great' hosta of tha people cannot get a dollar of it with which to carry on their business. There is where the trouble lies. The country ia naturally a gold mine, but tha people have only their bar handa to work it with. Our real per capita ia but little mora thaa that ef the men of China, and like them the great mass of our people ara barely living- |