Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-03-12

igencer) how II may SErlKe otneTS DuI ~
our mind the argument against the Sub Trea-
sury scheme in the following Dialogue Is
about as unanswerable as any thing we have
ever read upon the subject.
From the Connecticut CourGnt
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A LABORER
AND AN EX-SENATOR, (NILES)
Laborer. Good morning, Mr.. Senator.
Senator. Good morning, Mr.. Wilson; how
do YOU do to-day! How are your wife and
children-how do they stand this hard WIN
ter-and how does the good cause of the par
ty get on in your town?
Ea6orer. Pretty we'll, Sir, though times are
rather hard, money scarce, and labor is moi
as we'll 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 party to
the last, and we will, in the end, have hard
money currency. The Sub-Treosury WIN
make us.all rich. 1t will give to every man
as much money as he wants, ana that' 100
of right kind-the real sinners.
I,nborer. But have read in the speeches
IF Mr. buchanan and Mr. Walker that the
Snh.Treasury will diminish the price of la
nor. Having always looked upon you as the
"Dr. Franklin of New England" and know
ing that YOU have recently been to Boston to
talk to the folks of Massachusetts, l come
down today to ask you how the Sub Treas
urv will help the laboring man, when it re-
duces the price of labor!
Senator. Oh! you can't always exactly
tell how thing works for every individual,
and vet it is easy to sec how it works tor the
benefit of the whole.
Laborer. bought house last year of my
neighbor Wheaton l paid him $500 in cash.
and gave him mortgage tor $oOU, 70 De
paid at the rate of 800 year. Now, this
could easily save, with wages 81 81 day
and in five years the house would be paid
for. But if wages are reduced to 10 cents u u
dav, or even to dollar, it will just take an
that I can earn to support my family-and
INV house, with all that have paid on H. WILL
at the end of five years, go back to Mr..
Wheaton. How, then, am l to be benefit
ted
Senator. This is kind Of natural conse-
ouence of a general rule. No general rule
works we'll in every case. You shouldn't
have gone in debt-you'd no business to go
on the credit system-it is a wicked system.
Laborer. But how could get house with
out it? had 5000, and in five years could
easily have earnt the rest, and lived IN the
house all the time.
Senator. No matter-it is one of the prin-
ciples of the party to have no credit: no real
good Loco has bit of credit; and you must
20 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 tQ our party
don't you?
Laborer. Yes.
Senator. Well, it is for the benefit OF the
Il q S1T
Laborer. This is not quite clear to me, and
am not sartin that it is quite right. But,
since YOU have been to Boston to lecter, sup
pose it must be true.
Senator. / don't see myself exactly how it's
goen to work; but have great confidence
in Buchanan and Walker; they say it's all
right-and it's now become 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 get less wa
ges 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 trifle
more if every thing else is reduced one-hat.
This is an incidental benefit, and couldn't well
be otherwise.
Laborer Then the office holders will all be
benefited by the sub-Treasury 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.. Senator
Senator. Yes, the laborers will get kind
of general benefit, which is not very easy to
explain-but still, they will kno'o 1t '0hen 1t
comes.
Laborer. You don't suppose, Mr. Senator,
that the benefit which the officers are to re-
ceive from the ub-Treasury bill is any rea-
son why they arc all in its favor, do you?
Senator. Oh, no! by no means. They are
in its favcr because it is for the good of the
party. They don't want any thing from it
for themselves.
La6orer. I wish could be little more
sartin about this reducing the price Of labor
being such good thing.
Senator. You must rely little on your
party-they will do every thing right.
Laborsr. Yes, know that; but now, in our
town, neighbor Leavenworth's factory is
stopped, and all his hands are discharged
fused to get good wages, and money was
plenty but now labor is down, nobody has
any employment, and I cannot get six
pence.
Senator. I tell you, neighbor, you must
have confidence. 1t is good thing to have
labor down. can now hire a man to work
in my garden next summer for eight dollars
a month, instead of sixteen, by which shall
make clean saving of fifty dollars.
Laborer. But will that be benefit to the
laboring man or to you?
Senator. 1t will be kind of incidental ber.-
gift to me, and kind af natural consequence to
him.
Laborer. cannot exactly see, Mr.. Sena-
tor, how labor is benefited by having wages
reduced one half Some of our neighbors
have notion that the office-holders are in
favor of it because their salaries will then be
worth more than they are now.