Show PRODUCE AND LABOR nabor the present high prices of the articles of consumption and the prospect of their continuance ti nuance have caused some anxiety among those most deeply interested and have called forth the express expression lon ion of numerous crude and undigested opinions from those either not sufficiently posted to determine det eruine corr correctly act I 1 y or have reasons for endeavoring to create erroneous impressions we will oar a few words on the subject for the consideration of our readers itis it is an established establish ed fact in political economy economy that aa as the staple product oj os any avy community Is in a prosperous or depres J condition condition in n accordance with the law of supply and demand so is the prosperity of the community aa as a whole awhile in a proportionate ratio the staple product of this grain we are an agricultural people the prosperity of the merchant the mechanic and the tradesman is but the natural adjunct of the prosperity of the agriculturist following after and depending upon it so long as a mutual system of trade was carried on between producers in which produce of one kind waa was exchanged for produce of another kind and the market was altogether or nearly so a home one it did not matter much what nominal price was put upon agricultural produce but the bread breadstuff which then passed into the fiands of those who bad had business tiona outside cf of the community viere ere received by them at a price miserably tive tiye to both the producer and the mechanic c who received them in exchange for bia his labor hence while the meri merchant chant demanded and received a heavy percentage as profit on his business transactions the producers of all classes in the community were compelled to make heavy sacrifices to obtain the articles of consumption purchased seil by them which were not immediately produced in the territory any one can bee see at a glance that the result of this would be what it actually has been to enrich a few at the expense a of the miny nony the community as a whole progressed and I 1 flourished to an extent extent but the agricultural and mechanical classes were compelled to creep slowly along while the mercantile class clait leaped into the posses possession zion of affluence but a very kery marked change has set in A large and increasing lacre iacre aging export market has been opened one that threatened to leave us without breadstuff i during daring a part of the present summer before harvest larrest would be upon us it f threatens to leave our bins and storehouses store houses empty before another hartest harvest unless some measures are adopted to check the he heavy drain upon our produce and in supplying that market the llona hare shaie of 0 the profits would as heretofore ail fall all not into lato the hands i of the p producers reducers cers but into the safes of a tev few who car cau ca buy store and demand their price to meet this contingency a convention is proposed to regulate the prices of produce eo to that the producer will be fairly remunerated for hlis bis labor the people are also called upon te secure themselves ves from want by laying 0 up and saving a years provisions provi siona slona but would not the law of supply and de man mahd d regulate the price without a convention undoubtedly it would but to whose advantage the producer producers 0 we question it with a newly gathered harvest and fall full bins the evil day would appear so bo distant that a large portion of the present harvest would pass out of the hands handa 0 of those who raised it in fn a short abort time and at ut remunerative rateb rates again the tae settlements are dotted lover lovei v an extensive e x tract of country with la in many instances limited mail facilities and aud no 0 telegraph sharp operators can watch every change and fluctuation of the market maratt and before the producer could be aware with superior advantages in obtaining information I 1 could make heavy pur purchases chasn and pocket immense profits to the disadvantage of the producers thib this ia is the way in which numerous fortunes are rapidly mad made in this telegraphic age sa but what will be the iha condition of the mechanic and laboring man that is a serious question to him it is likely to cone coane hard on a few for a time but the mady many will wili speedily j fee feel I 1 the benefit of iland it ani and all eventually will j be the richer for it one of three things is a dead certainty enough grain rain must musi be kept in the territory to meet the wants of the peo people pie and a good price prica be obtained for tor what ape out cf of it to pass into the hands handset at the producer or the quantity disposed pt will pasa pass through the hands of those who will buy low and sell dear and the com community punit be no richer by the operation or the territory will be all but al ripped of grain and the mea meagre re residue will run rull up to an enormous figure fi which the poor man will vill be compelled to pay perhaps the bulk of the people be placed in a condition oe of positive starvation the last contingency hangs bangs closely on the second and is interwoven with it which is the hest best nt merely for the working man but for all ail al in the everit erent of either of the two last being the action and the crops of 65 being a failure what would be the result utter starvation the first insures us from wanta want and means where it can flow in le irate channels through all the ramifications of the body a social oc ial lal the many have it and not the few general enter enterprise ia is fostered fo demand for labor multiplied and labor buyers are placed in a position to pay higher wages to those they employ and though the few may bo be enterprising make improvements and thus distribute much means mean meansie sit it would not be sa so general in its application nor boreo eo extensively beneficial iq its results as it would be were it to pass into the hands of a more numerous class of enterprising men IN INDIANS DrANs we understand that gen connor and a portion of the ibe troops go east today to day to looi look after Cafter some indians indiana who are said to bo be plundering trains on bren riter |