The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1836-02-26
ADDRESS
TO THE JouRSEYMES AND WORKING PEOPLE OF NEW
YORK.

YORK.
You are on the verge of ruin. The business year is
just commencing. and unless you begin with good
sense and discretion you will have before whole
summer of agitation and msrule If riot and illegal
violence be persisted in the streets of New York will
flow with blood The laws must be supported, and riot
and violence put Down. Return TO calm consideration
OF your situation The aud remedies Of the pre-
sent discontents may be enumerated as foows:-
F;rst-The removal of the Post Office 10 Chamber
street is one of the principal of the present state
othngs This removal has been made the ground work of
increasing rents from 40 80 per cent in every street
from river to river high Grand street, The remedy
for this evils back into Wall street, where the
residents can afford to pay high rents.
Seeond-The advance of rents by general COM
binaton among the landlords, and the real estate
SPECTATORS Phe present members OF both boards
of the Common Council, have stimulated this advance,
by secretly intriguing with certain politicians, TO stuff
the Post Office into the Rotunda. The remedy for this
evil is for mechancr further up town, or TO
Brooklyn and Jersey ctes-but the best relief will be
to turn the whole Corporation out of Office next election
as lesson to their successors.
Third-The combination of forestaers about the
markets, and particularly those congregating round the
Upper Bulls Head who manage by facilities from the
Butchers and Drovers Bank, and false reports in the
Courier & Enquirer to controul the beet, mutton and
veal markets. and compel the butchers 10 pay their own
prices. A remedy for this, we have not been able to
devise. All must eat at any price.
Fomtb-The New York Gas Company monopoly,
which has the entire cenreul and monopoly of lighting
the lower part of the city, and thus affecting the general
expenses of trades down The remedy for this,
the creation BY the Legislature of rival company, be-
fore it rises.
FifM-The next cause of the present evils felt by
journeymen and laborers, is the combination among
employers to pay such prices they deem right most
generally however, taking keep the largest half
of the apple to themselves. The remedy is, peaceful
and legal combination of werkmeH-a calm remon-
strance-an appeal to public opinion-and if not sue
cessfu to form colony, and emigrate to the fertile
lands Of the west where they all live, and gel rich
in few years.
The Sirh evil is the Trades Union and its satellites
called Associations. All these bodies of gene
rally composed of miserable rum-drinking agtators
who tax the whole body ourneymen, to support their
conventcles under preence Of advocating their rights.
The remedy for this evil is for every journeyman to
separate from the Trades Union and leave it to its
infamy.
The Serenh and greatest evil, is that produced
by political agitators-these hypocnes who cry out
against banks and insurance companies, monopoes
injurious to society. The most injurious monopoly 10
the jouneymen is that of master mechanics. who fire.
quently combine to curta wages, or refuse fair in
crease. bank is real benefit to all-it circulates
capital and keeps society in motion. The remedy for
this evil, is for all workingmen all journeymen and
laborsrs to avoid politics and politicians they would
.i,o Tbav
cannot sufficiently detest that of seals who
generally known and called politicians. They
well known by their hungry looks-their canting
language-their political vrulen tempers.
Let the journeymen mechanics and laborers reflect
their situation camly and adopt the prudent line
of conduct. More Tomorrow.