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Elmira Daily Bazoo. The OFFICIAL OEGAN of the Greenback Labor Re form Party of Elmira, Chemung County, and the 27th Senatorial District. PUBLISHED EYERY NOON BY E. C. GEORGE & CO. 136 EAST W A TER ST. TERMS:—Single Copy, One Cent. Single Copy one month delivered by carrier or by mail, 26 Cents. kave any, the w ages paid are so sm a ll that they can buy only bread and w a te r, which costs but little, and requires very few factories to be run. Friday Nov, 16, 1877, T h e U n ion Pacific Railw a y Com pany have obtained entire control ®f the coal interests along its lin e , w h ich have been hitherto in the hands of a m o n o p o ly of old directors of the road, know n as the W y o m ing Coal Company. Tha extravagant charges of that com pany made it a very oppressive m onopoly, injurious to the railroad and to the w estern interests in gen eral. T h e organization of this m o n o p o ly was explained in the C redit M o b ilier investigation, and its abolition enabled the road to obtain its coal supplies at $ i ,30 a ton instead of being obliged t© pay T h is change alone has been w o rth 1825,000 to the governm ent d u ring the year in decreasing expenses, and thus in creasing the net earnings. T h e total saving resulting in the breaking up of the monopoly is estim ated at 18300,000.— E x , W e clip the follow ing pungent paragraphs from the Essex Press : T h e m a n u facturer is com p elled to close out and let the Sheriff take all he has, because the , m o n ey w h ich used to carry on business has been funded [burned] and is now represented by interest-bearing bonds, w h ich em ploy no labor, pay no taxes and do not circulate. Idle labor cannot buy anything. T h a t is w h y the farm ers are being sold out, and the m anufac turer has no call for his goods. Pay the bonds in greenbacks and let the bondholder “ root hog or d ie,’* like the rest ot us. M a n u facturers used to pay good wages and m a k e m o n e y . N o w only a few even can pay the starvation prices that are in vogue. T h e reason is that the currency having been burned and bonds issued in place of it, the m anufac turer does not need to m ake m any goods, for if he did nobody could buy them , as the peo ple have little w o rk, and even w h e re they FRO O M W A U L S T R E A T NO, X X . Tu thee E dditter of thee Alinity Bazoo: Mi frend i thout it m ite bee wel tu lett u no thatt yu air m akin E n im is heer on w aul streat thatt w ount forgiv u for w h a tt yure a duin tu git Bonds an incum tackst and tu tak burdins oughf frum thee poore m ann thatt hee haz bourne in pece so longe, nowe whi knot bee kountented an lett thee pour m aun pa thee Tacks az hee haz dun an knot tauk soo mutch abot oppreshun of thee laboren poore. whye no lounger agoe than yesturda i giv a mann a ould kote thatt m i groom e [colored] hadd gott tu proud tu w are in thee stables an hee aeamed glaad tu git it butt w h e e n i tould im hee mite pick whatt he coud out ov m i swill barel he waz az m ad az a hornit, now if ya cal thatt econimy yu aut tu bea suprest. an if u doant stopp kryin out oprcshun u wil sea thee auful rezult in a greanback President in 1880 an that woud jest stoppow r Gould biznes and bild hum s f u r poor; hopin that yu w il take the advise of one hoo is yure bitterest frend i subscribe miself, yures & so 4th, J . G ouldlobbi M c C uller , W a u l streat, ingland. H O N E S T LABO R , Appleton*s Journal rem a rks that “ labor, honest labor, is m ighty and beautiful. Ac tivity is the ruling elem ent of life and its high est relish. L u x u ries and conquests are the result of labor, we can im a g ine nothing with out it. T h e noblest m an o f earth is he who puts his hands cheerfully and proudly to hon est labor. L abor is a business and ordinance of God. Suspend labor and w h e re is the glory and pom p o f the earth ? T h e fruit, fields and palaces, and the fashionings of m atter, for w h ich m en strive and w a r ? L e t the labor* scorner look to him self, and learn what are the trophies. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot (unless he is a Carib, naked as the beast] he is the debtor and slave of toil. T h e labor w h ich he scorns has tracked him into the stature and a p p e a rance of a man. W h e re gets he his garm enting and equippage? L e t labor answ e r. Labor, w h ich m akes music in the m ine and the furrow and the forged, Oh ! scorn labor, do you, m an w h o never yet earned a m o rsel of bread? Labor pities you, proud fool, and laughs you to scorn- You shall pass to dust forgotten, but labor w ill live on forever, glorious in its conquests and mon ‘ um e n ts.’*
