New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-11-03
labor and manufactures.

| Labor and Manufacturcs. :,
The Rrooklya Erening Star, we are sausheo
Nv It's article of Yesterday, does intend to *ofA
what harm it can to the Wing party ana 'fie
cause Of Protection, both of which it processes 70
sustain. 1t wades through column OF e1p.'nu-
ton or iteration in which it repeats ana iuip'l
It's back-handed stabs at the Proteclse -
vet asserts-ss We said nothing about inc 49,
ton of Home Industry.''-Did Mt Ell ne,i
ubat md YOU mean by talking OF : tax Oh NIL
lions cas, noon the community by the .Nahulac-
Interests y, We have brought thus to your
,o,oe once already, bat you do not seem TO see It.
M. ,,an,,f.cturers. as well as other en-
| ,--.a-s often exact too much work and pay too
i;,te wages, we fully understand and deplore ;
but we can see in this no argument against
manufacturing for ourselves. Nay, we insist
that the argument bears the other way; for
Manufacturing Labor is better paid here than In
other nations that have spun and woven for US,
while our workmen are our law mahers, and can
correct any abuse if they will it, as they cannot
in other countries. But how does the fact Of 1t
be fact, which one side OF story is not always
that a manufacturer has exacted fourteen hours
labor per day, or that dozen have done so, prove
the impolicy of encouraging Manufactures among
us? We have known several instances OF hired
or bound boys being maltreated and even beaten
to death by Farmers; but do these afford an
argument against cherishing Agriculture!
But Do the interests of Manufactures require
the sacrifice of the operatives? ?" insdiously
queries the Star No, Sir; you are well aware
that they do not. You ask the question only to
insinuate what you wish to have believed and yet
dare not assert But again:
as the interest of nation to build up system Of labor
which from It's nature requires The jmmota'o7 OF those
,cho erect II -
What system Of labor requires this The
Manufacturing is the evident intent. But the
Father Of Lies could coin no blacker ialschood.
There is no department of Industry in the Coun-
trv wherein Labor, male and female is SO well
paid, on the average, as in Manufactures, There
is none which is regarded as easier by the aborers
themselves. We are well acquainted IN the
Manufacturing District OF our Country, and we
| know that most young men prefer working IN the
| factories to working almost any where else, while
not one Young woman III ten will do house work
| when she can find place in factory, Yet IN
this very region the hours OF factory labor are
longer than VIC approve, Though not so many as
we work. the labor being generally light and
agreeable.
But the Star continues
owe are stanc advocates for home industry, always have
been and will remain but do not wish TO see home
productions purchased AZ the cost OF the morals the honesty
the happiness and the Intelligence even OF The aborer
Why this ncessant insinuation of untruths you
dare not directly affirm To US it seems dis
honest and unutterably base. We are somewhat
acquainted with the People of different and widely
separated sections of our country, and we know
no section superior in morals, honesty, happiness
or intelligence to that in which Manufactures have
been longest established and are now most
thoroughly prosecuted.
Our word must suffice on the real evil which
the Star is laundering at. This evil turks, in our
opinion, in the system Of La5ortor Wages, or an
arbitrary imposition for work done. The remedy
workmen Jointly interested with the capitalist in
the proceeds Of their united capital and labor,
the workmen choosing their own leaders or fore
men, fixing their own hours and other regula-
tons, and dividing their product equltably with
the capitalist and with each other. This must
be so adjusted as to secure ample justice to all
parties, SO that the capitalist shall not be improve
rished by the idencss or unthrift of the workmen
any more than the latter can be robbed by the
rapacily Of the former. This is great and diff
ficult undertakings cannot be carried to per
lection in a day, but it aoill be worked out yet,
and the men live who will see it. When this is
done, the evil complained of will cease forever.
Wing Nominations.
u The Wings Of Tioga County have NOM