Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1842-05-26
FSoN ruE ARGUS.
THE AMERICAN MARKET

THE AMERICAN MARKET.
An important controvsrsy Is going on ia the u.
nited States. Tho question at issue is, who shall
have the American markctfer manufactured fabricsl
Shall It BE- secured To our own lablr.suitably Cncour
aged and rewarded. or shall II be thrown open to
the cheap products OF foreign couniric whose labor
ers do MT consume our provisions in eNehnngel
la ih's cuntes, we fnd Col IN m?Son. a citizen
"i our manufacturing town of Wheeling. multiply
ing wonds wuh great zeal. in behalf of foreign labor
AM capita. ~ great Is his zeal ~ behalf OF the
iotcisners. that he oven asserts that there Is n need
ol protection 10 the Americl laSIrcr. because the Tar.
ih'doeS nat increase his wages but goes 10 The cap
ia'isi. TINS ialsehOoI the Colonel asserts and ret.
crates. The resolution orthc eighth OF January as.
serted IT. When its truth WIS contested ,he said that
was not hhs meaning. Yet in hs last essay, the
Slnt thing Is re-asserted in the sumo worls-lhat the
'afih d"es not increase the wages IN Tins country. or
CT the " ges Of Europe. Wei. iii does not increase
TIE wages q would Keep them from coming down
'n European rates. IL isa very nice operation 10
snow That keepiHg wages up Indifferent frOn raising
'hein abnNe European rates. We do not recognize
the difference.
10 IS well known that wages ~ America Ind wa.
cs m Europe, are not now At the anne rates. But
II the Colonel snd his friends can succeed in open.
ing The American market to labor. the result must he
To bring American AMI European lahrr 10 about the
same prices. When this is done. the American pro-
duct vii. not need protection. But while compe-
tent living wages are paid fer labor here.auicles pro.
duced BY it cannot he furnished at as low rates. rs
those where the laborer gets Only one. fourth rs much
as - plid here. Liberal wages in America. which
enable laborng men Io live comfortably, AMI 20 c'lG
cate their families for business. cannot work in the
SINE market with the starvation wages Of Ia rope
without protection The assertion that this protection
horbenehtst the capitalist dioHe,'s a must unprucipled
n inexcuslble misrepresentation.
WAY does not the Colonel come directly 10 the
point % which his cfTpris tend-iho reduction oi
wages Il would be too open and honest. 10 argue
distinctly against The price of labor, 10y name. But
labor Is rs certainly Connected with capital ia man.
uinciures. rs It Is in agriculture. Manufacturing ca.
piial produces nothing " iIhout ih- aid Of labor
The miserable palavcr aboUt taxing labor for the
benefit O%fcapiial. Is sheer nonsense and absurliIy.
The labor - as much protected rs The capital; und
without The labor, the capI tai would be a mere
dead body. II Is. in fact. the labor that is assailed
over the shoulders Of capital. Give the American
market TO the foreigners, and what will the home
labUrcrs dol Must they not work for u c same wages
as The al fed and over worked operatives OF Eug-
land. and lie content Ia end their days IN a pOnr
hOuSef We are opposed 10 every Thing like dcgr, o..
ding our intelligent and skilful freemcn. who are
engaged m manufacturing employments of great
Importance, 10 the miserable condition of the de.
pressed industry Of Europ7.
But II may be said, We have plenty ofland in the
west; and the seven hundred md ninety thousand
persons employ y cd in manufactures. aud their fami.
lies. may becume ngriculiurllIsis, and raise food Tor
themselves. Suppose this were dOne-whcre will
be the market for provisions, which our manuiac.
lures NOW annrd To the farmersi And in that case.
how II The farmer To pay for iron aud other articles
u necessity Ills -four and bacon will not pass in
Enrope. except IN Times Of scarcity resulting from
ponT harNesis. His butter, eggs. chickens, and other
minor articles, will not he sileable. Ia groI sea
suns, The foreigners exclude our staple provisions by
heavy duties. Good money must be RENTED. A
siignaiIbn would result, anu our population would
be compelled To divide itself anew into different
emPloymenis. under national projections for the cum.
mon benefit. Agricultural aud manufacturing M.
dus'ry would have tn grow up again, side by side.
al riding mutual employment aud mutual accom-
mudatIp'S To each other.
la The standing policy &c other nations 10 Sc.
zeal manifested here. to give our home market iu
i"rcIgn labor, and CAPITAL. appears TO us TO be very
much out of place. Its mode Of operation too. IL
. yeciIunIblc. IL separates things which are InII-
uaiely cOnnecicd-cOnneciod like tho wagon aud
Ihe team which draws il. This Zeal separates the
agrCulturilisi f,om his manufacturing usiomers-
n separates labor from the capital which en- pluys u
III separates particular branches from the general
industry and complains that all are oppressed for
The benefit Of one. II even separates the machinery
from The labor and skill which are necessary To take
rare oi u. and insists that machines are not laburers.
This zeal Tor ihe success Of foreign competition for
our market, Is among the most unaccounIable ac-
ciaenis Of The age.
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