The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

COOKED FOOD,

This would, no doubt, much increase the comfort of the
emigrants, if it be possible to lay down a scale of provisions
not too expensive for a £3 passage, and yet of a d,scription to
satisfy a mixed company of English, Irish, and German. Ido
not think the Australian ships could be quoted as examples in
this respect, as the passengers in them ate nearly all English,
and all of a somewhat superior class to the emigrants to
America. If this system be adopted, we must be prepared to
hear volumes of complaints against the food, the cooking, and
the time and canner of serving.
BERTHING.

Let this question be decided by an experiment, unless it is
thought right that, on the score of morals, the government
should decide it. Let two ships of equal character lie side by
side in dock—one berthed as at present; the other according
to the proposed plan for separation of the sexes ; let the same
sailing day be fixed, let the same broker do the business, and
let equal rates be fixed. The ship which fills most rapidly
will, of course, be that which is berthed most in accordance
with the feelings of the passengers. I will venture to predict
that the present system would have the preference with the
Irish passengers, if not with the English.
In conclusion, let me remark that it strikes me all this
agitation is four years too late. Ido not believe we shall ever
again see the same amount of emigration from Liverpool as
we witnessed last year. There is nothing to warrant us in
supposing that this tice can continue to flow. It behoves the
legislature. therefore, to be careful in meddling with this
business ; not to create unnecessary obstacles to an emigration
at once advantageous to those who leave and healthful to the
country they desert; not to raise the price of passage beyond
the means of those who most desire the move, and who can
best be spared from among ourselves.

VERITAS

THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE

To the AMALGAMATED SOCIETY of OPERATIVE
ENGINEERS, 4rc.
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MY INDUSTRIOUS FRIENDS,

From long and intimate connexion with mechanical labour,
and deep and earnest investigation of all the circumstances
which. in the complex state of English society, affect the rela-
tions between Employers and Employed, I have watched with
intense interest the progress of the disputes in which you are
at this moment unhappily involved. Bear with me. if. having
no personal interest to serve, anxious only for truth and jus-
tice, and solicitous above all things for the prosperity and hap-
piness of the industrial portion of my felow•countryinen, I
venture frankly, but in a spirit of the most friendly sympathy,
to invite you to a more comprehensive consideration of the
points for which you are contending than the narrow ground
you occupy has hitherto permitted you to give.
I feel it then my duty at once to tell you that you cannot suc-
ceed in your immediate object, however just, because you have
placed yourselves in a false and inconsistent position. You
have been, and you still, 1 fear, remain, supporters of the ffllse
principles, which, with telling force, are now urged against
you by the Times anti the II eekly Dispatch, the Economist and
Lord Cranworth ; and you have isolated yourselves therefore
from the sympathies of the party you uphold, while you reject
the aid of those whose principles are in harmony with all you
have any just right to require. Free-trade demands unrestricted
competition to produce cheapness as the greatest of blessings •,
—and you are free-traders. Yet you demand regulation of
your own labour,—which is protection and dearness for your-
selves,—while you resolutely deny it to all others. You thus
lose every hold on public opinion Freetraders oppose you be-
cause you seek selfishly to violate the principles you profess in
common with them; with Protectionists you cannot ally your-
selves, because you would violate their principles in every case
hut your own. Open your eyes, I beseech you. You can no
longer safely halt between these two opinions. 7'hetchole indus-
try of the nation is at stake on the issue now joined by you be.
tween the two antagonistic systems. Protectionists have always
maintained that their doctrines, more than all, affected the in-
terests of labour. Impartially examine that question now by
the light of what is actually passing before you.
Unrestricted Competition ;—Natural Prices ;—Cheapness :
these are the dogmas on which Free Trade rests ; they are the
very life and soul of the system. But what is unrestricted
competition, when applied to labour where it exists, as in this
country, in redundance ? Setting man agail st his fellow-man,
like hungry wolves in savage rivalry, each contending for his
own subsistence. What are natural prices of commodities ?
The lowest prices at which they can be produced in the world's
market. And where will he the cheapest production ? There
precisely where labour, the great component element of all
t commodies, is content toreceiveas its recompense the smallest
portion of the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life—
there, where the condition of man is most nearly assimilated
to that of the brute. This, then, is the inevitable tendency of
the Competitive System, if carried out to its final results. Yet
this is the very foundation of the Free Trade you support. Be
not longer deceived. You cannot have the cheapest bread pro-
duced by the abolition of Corn Laws and the cheapest
.freights
by the abrogation of Navigation Laws, and make the Farmer
and the Shipowner purchase dear steam-engines by combina-
tions of Amalgamated Societies. The time has arrived when
you must make your choice. Protection offers you a just regu-
lation of labour and production at home, and of importation
from abroad. Free Trade consists in unlimited competition, as
the means of reducing prices by a reduction of labour—the
only capital the poor man possesses.
I have said that you cannot succeed. If you could, I could
scarcely congratulate you on such a triumph. In these con-
tests victory always leaves ranklinglieartburnings, and usually

sows wide the seeds of future tyranny. I earnestly- counsel yoit
to withdraw your present demands,—which you may do with-
out surrendering: your employers have no right to require
your humiliation ; and if they do, public opinion will not sup-
port them. And then in conjunction with spinners and wea-
vers—carpenters and cutlers— every mechanic of every pursuit—
unite your efforts to obtain from the Legislature the recognition
of the principle that labour ought to be justly protected and
regulated, and the adoption of well-considered arrangements
for giving to that recognition practical effect ;—and be well as-
sured that, in such efforts, in spite of Free-trade bullying, you
will never lack efficient support.
I remain, your sincere well wisher,
N MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
January, 1852.

London

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