Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-03-26

Laborer. Good morning Mr.. Senator.
Senator. Good morning, Mr. Wilson
how do you do today How are your wife
and children-how do they stand this hard
winter-and how does the good cause of
the party get on in your town?
Loborer. 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-stick to the par
ty to the last, and we will, in the end have
a hard-money currency. The Sub-Treas-
Iry will make us all rich. II will give to
every man as much money as he wants,
and that, too, of the right kind-the real
sinners
| Laborer. But have read in the speech
es of Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Walker that
the Sub-Treasury will diminish the price OF
labor. Having always looked upon you as
the DR.. Franklin of New England and
knowing that you have recently been to
Boston to talk to the folks of Massachu-
setts, come down to- ay to ask you how
the Sub-Treasury will help the laboring
man, when it reduces the price of Labor
Senator Oh! you can't always exactly
tell how thing works for every individual,
and yet it is easy to see how it works for
the benefit of tt c whole.
Lo6ora l bought house last year OF
my neighbor Wheaton; paid him $500 in
cash, and gave him mortgage for $500, to
be paid atthe rate of a S 100 year.-Now,
this could easily save, with wages at 81, >
80 a day-and in five years the house
would be paid for. But if wages are re-
will Just take all that ] can earn to support
my family-and my house, with all have
paid on it, will, at the end of five years, 20
back to Mr.. Wheaton. How then am l
to be benefited?
Senator. This is kind of natural con-
sequence if general rule works well in
every case. You shouldn't have gone in
to debt-you'd no business to go on the
credit system-it is wicked system.
Laborer. But how could get house
without it? had $500, and in five years
could easily have earned the rest and lived
in the house all the time.
Senator. No matter-it is one of the
principles of the party to have no credit
no real good Loco has bit of credit; and
you must 60 it or you are not true to your
party.
Laborer. But you have not told me how
I am to be benefited by having the price
Of labor reduced.
Senator. Why-you belong to our par
ty-dont you?
Laborw. Yes.
Senator. WeIl-it is for the benefit OF
the party, and therefore it is for yonr ben
eft.
Laborer This is not quite clear to me,
and | am not sartin il is quite right. But
since you have been to Boston to Ieeter,
think it must be true.
/. Senator. / don't see myself exactly how
its goen to work; but Pve a great conf.
deilce in Buchanan and Walker, they say
its all right-and its now become a party
measure and therefore it must be for the
good of the People.
Laborer. Will the pay of the members
Of Congress be diminished? If you are
made Governor next Spring, will you gel
less wages than Governor Ellsworth gets:
| Will the wages of the Postmaster be re.
duced!
Senator. The officers will get as much
as they do now; which may be worth a triffe
more if every thing else is reduced one
half. This is an incidental benefit, and
couldn't be other otherwise. So.
Laborer. Then the Office holders will
be benefited by the Sub Treasury will they
sir?
Senator. Yes-a kind of incidental ben
eft, which we do MOI well see how to a.
void.