Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-08-30

deeply injured by the bill now pending in the
U. $. House of Representatives, if that bill
should become law, and the existing tariff
law be repealed.
We copied yesterday from the Geneva
Courier practical mattcr-oi-iact explana-
ton Of the wool-growcr's interest in this sub
jcct. To-day we take from the same writer
similar explanation of the interests Of two
classes of Mechanics in the same subject, as
follows:
TO THE CARPENTER AND JOINER.
What, my friend, do you seek You answer, plcn
~ OF employment and good pay. In what does your
employment conslstl In making. putting up and
keeping In repair, houses, warehouses; 1ctCries &C..
with their appropriate buildings and fixtures, and tn C
various kinds of machinery employed in Touring
m g, wooden and cotton factories, end other cstab-
| hShmcn's for different manufactures. strike, then,
the Tariff from the statute book pass VI tknv's bill,
| throw open oar ports 10 English manufactures, and
where are youl Who will build factories for wool
ems IRON or cotton or for the various other articles
of domestic use when those articles are all procured
from abroad How would it mjrre you let me aslI,
should dozen factories, with their necessary fixtures
out-houses and aprenIagcs, be >ablished during the
ensuing summer, at Geneva? And how can these or
any other Cstahl shmcnls be put M if MCkays III
pass and thereby all inducemont to the capitalist to
embark in this branch of business be cut Off? And
are you to be called upon, because Mr. Van Blu
seeks ;hc Presidency, and would conciliac South
cru votes, 10 beGunr Yourselves and your families
! Granting Mr. Van Buren, to be all that his friends
! claim; has he or any other man the right 10 insist
upon your crampng yourselves for years, (for if he
he successful the free trade policy will @ perpetual
| for his benefit ? Away with such sophstryl Van
! Buren, is M better than Won or |. True, he has held
Office and received hs hundreds of thousands (Which
we have not) but the receipt Of these monies docs not
| H.. -. l. 4
s see how it operates upon us and proceed accord
| ngly.
TO THE TAILOR
Gou, my friend, are engaged in the manufacture OF
! clothing, either for individual customers or in the
/ wholesale way. In England and / rance thcv can
manufacture vastly cheaper than YOU can: for in
| England and France particularly the former) men
must work even for Cd per day or starve The pres
ent Wing Tarfi imposes duty of fifty per cent. npon
readv-made clothing; duty no more than sufficient
for your protection The Locofoco bill introduced bv
Mr. Mckay, reduces the duty 80 per cent the val
Of the clothing to be settled by the importer who
Is directly interested in swearing down its value in
order tosroducc the duty. In fact the dutv will hv
the usual false swearing, amount to no more than 90
per cent. This Is no protection at all. | tell YOU
| plainly Won cannot live under such 4 system Prior
/ TO The WhG act large FOREIGN establishments were in
/ full operation in New York, undcrscnn the Amrri-
can man Viact1rcr. The effects will not be confined
to largo cities; for these embellishments will from
time 10 time d'sgorge their surplus clothing over the
cpllTN' III lHIlp"olN IoW rates ana TO inc destruction
| Of ur business. The Thing has been done already.
| Under Mr. McKay's bill, if passed it will become
part Of the settled business Of the country. tell you
you cannot live under itA fop, (nlt an unrrcqucnl
| anmal.) whether IN city or country a WAYS prefers
something foreign, because he thinks It smacks ftho
arsiorracv; and fnps well rs other men, have
! their inilu,nce. Now, ask. what will YOU do 1t
is idle 10 talk Of party, when the question is about
mans bread. Cav may b., well, Van Bnren NAV be
wei. bat my bread Is TO me Of more moment than
ClthcI Of them.