Litchfield enquirer., 1842-11-10

IMPORTANT INFLUENCE UPON FIFE WAGES OF LABOR. To insure proper reward for la- bor, and to iEfuse new vitality into the po- litical and commercial system, the Wings have, and do still, advocate a PROTECTIVE TARIFF. Upon this question the people are with them. They have the cOuntenance and support of the mechanic and labOrer.
 Let us show, briefly, how FREE TRADE would effect the industry of the country. It is a we'll known fact that the price of labor is regulated by the den0nd for it. If there were twice as many laborers as there is la- bor, competition would reduce it's price- for man would rather work for fifty cents a day than not work at all. The demand for labor is increased with the increase of new sources of industry. The introduction of the manufacture of any new commodity affords labor for an additional number of persons. In encouraging manufactures, therefore, you increase the demand for la- bor, you augment the reward of the labor CT. The reverse is equally true. By dimi- nishing the<sources of industry-by curtail- ing the various departments of labor-by cutting off, here woolen manufactory, and a cotton establishment, and elsewhere foundry, you curtGI the demand for labor, and to that extent increase the competition for employment, and lay the foundation for speedy reduction of the standard of wages
 To further illustrate this point We will suppose there are now two hundred and flt- ty thousand laborers and mechanics cons- tantly employed in the manufacturing esta- blishments of our country. So long as those establishments are kept in operation, this mass of labor will not come in competition with that otherwise employed. The con- sequence is, and would continue to be, that the laborers not employed in those establish ments find work enough, and receive fair wages for that work. But suppose those establishments were to be suddenly suspen- ded, and their entire two hundred and fifty thousand men thrown out of femployment.- What would be the result? Of course this great army of suspended laborers would look elsewhere for work. They would be found exploring town and country seeking labor, and in their necessity, they would ot- fer to work for lower wages than had always been paid to the laborers of the country.- A reduction of wages would immediately ,, follow, and general distress would be expe- rienced by those who had previously enjoy ed all the necessary comforts of life. This is evident, we think. Every one must see the necessity of preventing, if possible, the happening of an event whose tendency would be so fearfully mischievous
 But it is not simply the number of per- sons who are engaged in manufacturing es. tablishments who would be thrown out of | employment if these establishments were to be stopped. THE SUSPENSION OF MANUFAc- l rUREs WOULD PARALYzE EVERY OTHER DEPART MENr OF TRADE. Our manufacturing towns would become deserted. There would not be, as there is now, a constant increase of new and substantial buildings. Improve ments would cease, and where there hun | dred dwellings erected now, there would not | be one erected then ;-Or, in other words, l WHERE EMPLOYMENT IS FURNISHED NOW FOR THOUSAND MAsONs, CARPENTERS, AND LABOR | FRS, THERE WOULD NOT BE WORK FOR FIFTY AFTER THE Loco-Foco DOCTRINE OF FREE 1 TRADE SHOULD BECOME FULLY ESTABLISHED This same falling off would be experienced 1 by almost every branch of mechanics.- | The farmer, too, would feel it, because the demand for his products would fall off with | the demand for labor. In short, the repeal of a protective tariff would spread devasta- tion over every branch of industry. Yet the Loco-Focy party have raised the cry of REPEAL" |" Protection and Anti Protec- tion'' is the issue. Mechanics, Laborers, Farmers, arm yourselves for the contest which must grow out of such an issue.
 MORAL SUPERIORITY OF WOMEN OVER MEN. Women in general are not such focls as men are and secondly, they are not such knares. Your man is ordinarily an ass, ready to follow the claptrap which rogues may put before him; and this from some shabby expectation of being the successful thief or the victorious oppressor. If all the detestable public acts which have darkened the last quarter of a century, could have been submitted to jury of women, three out of four would have been stopped by the superi. or sense and virtue of the referees. Women, in fact, are vastly further advanced in civi. lization than men are vastly more removed from the instincts and passions of savage life; more accustomed to calculate conse- quences, because it is on them they have al- ways fallen in their bitterness, and above all things less deteriorated by that ear and tear with the meanncss and villainy of the world, which is the inlet to halfthe miseries of man. kind, by enfeebling the belief in the possi- bility ofresistance.- Thompson's Essays.
 BY HIS ExcELLENCY,
 CHAUNCEY F. CLEVELAND,
 Gouernor of the State of Connecsicui,
 A PROCLAMATION.
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