The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-15
TABLE OF PRICES,
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zeal in favor of the laboring classes, go upoi
the principle that the Mechanic and the La
horpr are IGNORANT, and that they can be
Affected hy the most paIpable and baselesS sto'
RIGS. We refer to the article above quoted ioi
the nroof. We ask them to read it, and II they
do moi come to tie same CONCLUSION, theh' we
c,nIaSs I'VE have overrated their intelligence and
honesty.
If will be observed that the above clap-tfap
is table contrasting the prices oil labor De-
tween the wears 1856 and 1910, which shows
reduction of 40 per cent. at the present day
of these prices when compared with those oil
1885 Now why do not these gentlemen oil
silk-stockinr and bank-note memory, g1Ve us
the contrast bet,ceeB the prices OF me necesSd-
ries of lite during the same peI1od! Because
THEY DARE NOT; knowing that the ia
boring man would see through their mlseraoie
DECEPTION, and hence, 10 blind ms eyes, ana 10
arouse his suspicious, they very coolly laRe on
" the prices Of labor Tor their crIIerloh' ana
! while they show reduction oil 4Us per cent.
they most cunningly charge 1t 10 tle admins
trai;on or Martin Van Buren,. Let us see
whether, with the truth before us, we cannot
mace this plain question in its ungarnlShed as
pect. r.lo n;oa
orFlour-the standard by which every thing
else is iudged-by which it appears, Flour
commanded. in 1856, the enormous price OF
ELEVEN DOLLARS THE BARREL !!
Flour is now selling, and very dull at that, at
Four Dollars the barrel; and during debate
in the Senate, the other dav, we heard MIR.
Williams, the opposition Senator from Ale
ohepy. declare repea teddy that Flour was then
sellinr IN Pittsburg at Two Dollars and hall
the barrel Compare these statements and
mark the difference the difference be-
tween the prices of Dor for the same per OF, is
according 10 the statement of the FederaIisis
themselves onlu forty per cent, the difference
in THE PRICE OF FLOUR is EXACT
LY SEVENTY PER CENT! !! Here then
is our old position, ratified, confirmed and
strengthened by statement which dehes con-
troyeTsion. 1t places the federalists in their
nroper position-as deliberate ialsfers OF the
truth, as hvpocrites, and, in this case, as they
have always been, AS THE ENEMIES OF
THE POOR MAN, OF THE LABORER
HIND THE MECHANIC, whom they en-
deavor to deceive by the implication that they
are Ignorant and credutous 1t shows the r'r-
tue of Bank suspensions and expansions.
So much for the "higk prices" of the wings,
and 50 much for the oLs,o prices" which the de-
mocrats are charged with advocating, when they
advocate an equal currency, and, as conse-
ouence, an equality of prices from one end OF
the year to the other, in preference to the Bank
expansions which have disgraced our country
and plundered our people. Under the high
prces" of 1886, the mechanic who got two dol
lars per dav, Tor twelve dollars per week, had
only money enough at the end of the week, TO
purchase barrel Of Flour While, under the
| Glow prices" of the present day, with his dollar
and quarter per day, Cor seven dollars and nifty
cents per week. he can purchase nearly two bar
rels of -four, at the end OF the week, at lis
highest price! Surely this is too PLAIN CUES
lion TO need further explanation We shall mol
insult our readers among the mechanics and Ia
borers by pursuing this portion of 1t any further
They have always been the friends OF Democrat
ic men and measures for it is the party that es
pouses liberal principles, and has always battleC
for the greatest good of the geatest number
They cannot now be changed from their ancien
political faith by their old enemy-the author o
hanks. bank suspensions, bank contractions ant
bank expansions. He has deceived them TOO of
ten to affect them now.
We invite an attentive perusal of the very in
teresting letter of our able Washington CORES
pendent 1t has seldom happened in the histor
of any country that so great an outrage has bee
perpetrated as that OF which he speaks, and W
confess that we are astounded at seeing in tn
Globe, an official PRONUNCIATION of this fraudr
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lent speculation on the poor Senecas. And thi
is the administration who would persuade tn
people that they would arrest speculation. A
administration which by the grossest usurpatio
has consummated fraud upon the Indians, b
which they are driven from the homes of thei
fathers, and by which the people of the Unite
States are defrauded of 100000 in cash and {
800 900 acres of land. This charge rests o
the authority of Mr.. Sewer, devoted partiza
of the administration, but whose generous indis
nation revolted at the fraud and corruption.
The cashier of the bank of Virginia has al
seconded and is a defaulter to the amour
$500 900. The bank has offered a reward of $500
for his apprehension.
Mr.. Leigh has called meeting of the VIII
Central Committee of Virginia, that they ma
reply to the charge that Genral Harrison is
abslilionist, issued in an address ofthe Van Bu
rem party of Virginia.