New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-09-21

rher TINT If nv advice had prevailed an earnest-t
had nearly said decisive-represen would have
been made by u.s. u conjunction with the nations OF
Europe. 10 Mexico that she mus; either fight the
matter out with Texas al once, do others have
DONE and acknowledge her independence.
And now nv friends, word or two with regard
TO the protection OF American manufactures.
When protection Is spoken OF, implies FIRST some
thing and somebody II hc protected. ana something
and somebody &c be protected AGAINST. when We
mention protection 10 American industry, what do
we mean 7 What is 10 BE- protected, and against
whom is il TO be protected II there be any true
meaning 10 the phrase, II IL that American laoor-
American hand labor-is 10 be protected esainst
the cheaper labor OF European operatives and mat
il is 10 be done by giving 10 ourselves or keeping u
-,ong ourselves, the grea: market Tor our own pro-
ducfons This doctrine is founded IN the great TACT
that labor in Europe is cheaper than with US ne
lsbo-sr there is poorly paId-poorly clad ne is
considered a degraded being he has no participation
or hut slight part!cpauoH-iD government; ne
laws up nothing Re nothing but the mere dai-
~ support OF his family, and not always thst Nv
lives poor he dies poor and he leaves his children
| n ,he same biography. That Is the character OF
,,a lalsrine classes III the old world, and what Is
IN. condition OF that labor IN door or ont dpo com
pared with ours 7 Could We 1--we on II No. We
could not live on tive cannot ana we VIII ho' sup
init TO il. aborer in England can OBTAIN Que sun
ling day, which is equal 10 twenty-five cents, nc
| nroviding his own board. And one and sI1pence II
dav or thirty three is liberal price even !"
the harvest And the question with us Is "hr
Their we shall place ourselves III competition WIN
these rates For one, say
| desire that every III the country should
talk with his u-ehbor on there topics, and furnish
those " no may not be- we'll acquainted as NM
| self with the facts OF the case. Our maxim IS
:" live and let live We are competent 10 supply
ourselves by the interchange OF commodities, win
all that We reqaire, ut least so lar US The prihciPu'
nsaessares Of lie are concerned.
Ii is the universal cry with our opponents ana II
* IN. loudest where the facts least known 'a'
protection is useful 10 the capitalist, 10 corpor"oT
that il builds up large fortunes tor a lew, out de-
presses the interest OF the laborer And even Ill our
| own State OF Massachusetts. there are those c'u
snirjfs abroad who seek 10 make war between hiif'
cut classes eAcie one against another men ile'
| with hatred, envy, malice and all acknowledgements
must say ii, for, upon my conscience since uI e
rent crepI into paradise 10 corrupt sedhce an" run,
our first parents do not know oi N more "''N'u
shirt either in man serpent. than thai when ~
ula,es these individuals. Ii you, any oil you' nhd
such men AT work mark thenl-stgmatize them -
s u;rstes rs enemies 10 the whole human race 'hAe
car. 10 consider them. They come but Tor evil--b"'
10 break ND and DESTROY the whole relations oil Inc
community-they are hit for no society except u'e
society OF their early prototype ucntienen' ,'e
assertions thew make are false. Corporations with
us are but more convenient form OF partnership
nny five men NAV become one here-and here,
where great fortunes do not abound as IN Europe,
they are most convenient and beneficial device.
| Fellow.citizens, say that whatever enhances
wages whatev5 increases the price OF LABOR, Is eA
nr-ssly for the benefit OF labor and against that ol
capital Because the increase Is so much taken
from the general, common stock, aud placed IN t'it
hands of the aborcrs. And OF all things sn earth,
that which We as American citizens, oug nj most 10
desire. is high rate of wages, ample reward Tor
labor. II that exists in country the people oil mat
country can live, educate their children, can
support public worship. In such country there
never has been, and never can be, any overgrown
fortunes on the one hand-nor, on the other, any o:
that poverty that absolute beggary which uniortu-
uately prevails in some countries OF the EARTH
Let me, in regard TO this matter OF corporations,
read TO you an extract from letter written by The
able REPRESENTATIVE of this district in Congress. He
mentions several cases, but | will take only,
rhe Nlerrmac mills at Lowell. There are, in this
corporatior, 800 propfietors divided as follows:
Is Merchants and Traders.
81 81 individuals retired from business,
50 Administrators, Executors. Guardians and Trustees
q Lawyers.
3 I.tetnry Institutions.
10 Secretaries. Clerks Students. SC.
IS Mans iacures Mechanics, Alachlnls's &c
Among latter Is included individuals IN the Nctu
employment The company By whom stock u the amount o
100000 owned
Is there any species Of property more equally and
nent show any thing like Aristoeracy Does 1t not
rather exhibit convenient and in every respect, de-
sirable mode of investment for all who have, or by
their labor can acquire, any thing 10 invest Gen.
temen, any one who cries out " Arisocracy" IN our
system OF society, and our system OF manufactures
ouo hi TO cry out scaTce-crow, 10 SHOW AT once
that he uses the word merely as bugbear TO fright
Ell people out Of their senses.
Gentlemen, before the Constitution OF the United
States was adopted, il was debated here IN the Old
South by the leading men OF the state, and TWAS
considered one of lis cardinal merits that ii would
protect and foster the mechanic arts Paul Revere
said So Judge DAVIS said so, the people assembled
al the Green Dragon (which We have passed todny J
said so; and il was oi this assembly OF mechanics
aud artisans that Paul Revere said there were more
Of them than the stars in heaven. Every body advo-
Gated protection then, and you must remember that
in those DAVIS there no OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES was
no machinery. The human hand was The great ma
chine aud ali tongues here then insisted on line doc
rine OF Protection 10 the work oil the hands. 30 u
should be now. Our adverstries talk oil Lowell and
! AnIoskeug Why do they not talk OF the shoenak-
ers of ynn the matters OF Boston, OF all who work
in their own shops For in fact, these are the pe0-
ole mainly interested in thu matter and the manu-
lecturers concern is but trifns in comparison
Ii is said that the farmer the dupe OF this protec-
tive policy that he is to be ruined by the Iaiib
have frequently endeavored to state my conviction,
that the greater the number ot the better
urged that it is unnecessary TO dilute IL here.
member oi Congress from Pennsy iyania slr. Stew
art has made speech on this subject WHICH en-
braces great deal Of valuable Information particu-
larly with regard to iron, in the manufacture oil
which MIR. Stewart himself is engaged, He states
that Of every ten dolllrs expended in American ron
eight 20 The farmers and nborers in the Immediate
n-ig hborho0d of the mandatory. OF course this
is So much saved from foreign labor aGd paid TO our
o"n. And 80 it is OF every thing else which We can
manufacture.
Is any one certain that but for the protection on
wheat and rye, We should not he supplied from the
Black Sea- the Baltic Sea, and from Poland We
all remember that, not very long since, grain was
imported from those quarters at profit Take Oh
the protection which the Tariff affords, and the same
will gam be the case And does any suppose
that w could cover four own heads with our own
mats bur for the Tariff The duty now works the
exclusion on the English article entirely, and OF the
French in great measure. But take off the Tariff
AMI our domestic manufactures will fall 10 the
ground The shoemakers, oil whom see many
thousands here from Plymouth Essex and else