Remedy for high prices.
--The natural remedy for high prices is competition.
To undermine extortion, we must supply the market.
There is no other normal, permanent or effective way of accomplishing the object.
There may be other temporary expedients resorted to which may appear to give partial relief for the time being; but in the end they will be found of little avail, and may make matters worse instead of better.
The regulation of prices of some of the leading articles of prime necessity, by military authority, may be proper for the moment; but we pray our citizens not to settle down for an instant into the idea that such a remedy for evils felt can be anything more than an expedient of an hour.
If they should, and should thereby pretermit any efforts to supply our markets with goods and provisions, they will find the relief they expected will be like the apples of
Sodom — beautiful to the eye, but turning to bitter ashes upon the palate.
We cannot be mistaken.
The inexorable laws of political economy — the very decrees of Fats — cannot be resisted with impunity, cannot be evaded or trifled with.
They will assert their supremacy and vindicate their power, though the mandates of all the potentates of the earth, backed by the thundering columns of a thousand Napoleons, were levelled against them.
While accepting whatever relief the temporary expedient may give us, let us enter at once upon the work of supplying our markets, and thus mitigate the evils of extortion and high prices.
We scarcely know of what we are capable until we try. Let us make efforts.
Let us combine — call into requisition the tremendous power of the principle of association — We have not yet invoked that.
What one cannot do, a dozen, a hundred can. Divide the risks of enterprise, and in any undertaking fall, the loss to each individual concerned will be trifling, while each will have the satisfaction of feeling that the did what he could, that he tried to succeed, that he performed at least his duty.--
N. O. Bulletin. 
