Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-03-13
From the Connecticut Courant.
Dialogue between s.: LsabOrcr ~
an EX-SCn;l(Or. (NilCS.)

I"OOfT. NOOu morning W.T. senator.
Senator. Good morning, Mr. Wilson;
how do you do to-day! How are your
wife and clildrcn-how do they stand this
hard winter--and how does the good cause
of the party get on in your town!
Laborer. Pretty well, Sir though
times are rather hard, money scarce, and
labor is not as well paid for as it used to
be; still, we haven't turned Wings yet,
and don't mean to.
Senator. That's right-stici to the
party to the last, and we will, in the end,
have hard money currency. The sub
Treasury will make us all rich. 1t will
give to every man as much money as he
wants, and that, too, of the right kind
the rea! sinners.
LaJOrcr. But | have read in the
speeches of MIR Buchanan and Mr. Walk
err that the sub Treasury will diminish the
price of labor. Having always looked
upon you as the cdr. Franklin Of New
England" and knowing that you have
recently been to Boston to talk to the folks
of Massachusetts, come down to-day to
ask you how the sub-Treasury will help
the laboring man, when it reduces the
price oflabor!
Senator. Oh! you can't always cx-
actly tell how thing works for every
individual, and yet it is easy to see how it
works for the benefit of the whole.
LabOrer. bought house last year
of my neighbor Wheaton; | paid him
$500 in cash, and gave him a mortgage
for $500, to be paid at the rate of 500
year. Now, this | could easily save,
with wages at s 80 day-and in five
years the house would be paid for. But
if wages are reduced to Is cents day,
Or even to dollar, it will just take al!
that can earn to support my tamily-and
my house, with all that have paid on it,
will, at the end of five years, 90 back to
MIR Wheaton. How, then, am l to be
benefited?
Senator. This kind of natural con-
sequence of a general rule. No general
rule works well in every case. You
shouldn't have gone in debt-you'd no
business to 90 on the credit system-it is
wicked system.
Laborer. But how could | oct a
| house without it ! had $500, and in five
years could easily have carnt the rest,
and lived in the house all the time.
Scn0tOr. No matter-lt is one Of the
principles of the party to have no credit:
no real good Loco has bit of credit
and you must go it, or you are not true
to your party.
LabOrer. But You have not told me
how am to be benefited by having the
price of labor reduced.
Senator. Why-you belong to our
party don't you!
Labmer. Yes.
Senator. Well, it is for the benefit of
the party, and therefore it is for your
| benefit.
Laborer. This is not quite clear to
me, and am not Sartin that it is quite
right. But, since you have been to Bos-
ton to lecter, suppose it must be true.
Senator. don't see myself exactly
how its goen to work but have great
confidence in Buchanan and Walker
they say it's all right-and it's now be-
come party measure, and therefore il
must be for the good of the People.
Lab0rer. VIII the pay of the men,
bers of Congress be diminished! If YOU
are made Governor next spring, will you
get less wages than Governor Ellsworth
gets! Will the wages Of the Postmaster
be reduced?
Senator. The officers will all get as
much as they do now, which may be worth
a trle more if every thing else is reduced
onc-haJ. This is an ineidentai benefit,
and couldn't well be otherwise.
Laborer. Then the ohicc-holdcrs will
all be benefited by the sub-Trcasury bill,
will they, sir!
Senator. Yes-a kind of Incidental
benefit, which we do not we'll see how to
avoid.
Laborer. And the laborers, Mr.. SEN
atOr -
Senator. Yes, the laborers will get a
kind of general benefit, which it is not
very easy to explain-but still, they wW
know 1t when it comes.
Laborer. You don't suppose, Mr.
Senator, that the benefit which the officers
are to receive from the sub Treasury bill
is any reason why they real in its favor,
do you?
Senator. Oh, no! by no means.-
They arc in its favor because it is for