The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-03-18

been introduced; bill TO repeal the Distribution
act has been passed the bill making appropri-
atoms for the supper, Of West Point Academy
has been made the conduit pipe of large
amount of defamation for home consumption;
he bill to regulate the election of Electors of
President and Vice President, las also served as
hook 10 hang political speech upon, avow-
eddy delivered for Buncombe, of which il is said
an edition of 100000 has been published and
cart loads of which are now buIdening the mail !;
bill has also been reported TO re-es,ablish the
ub-Treasury scheme.
And these constitute all, or nearly all, that has
oeen done in the House during the fifteen weeks
Congress has been in session. At this rate Of
doing business, if the tariff bill is to be passed, as
ts. if the appropriation bills are to be passed,
they must be, Congress will probably be ready
to adjourn sometime about the first of September
or October. The House, however, having adopt
ed all those rules which they so eloquently de-
nounced as "Whig gags" adopted by the 9th
Congress, by their application and by sitting all
debate, they may possibly be able to adjourn about
the first of July.
LOCoFOCOIsM OPPOSED TO THE IN.
TERESTS OF THE MECHANIC AND
LABORER.
While the Locofocos profess to be the peculiar
friends of the great mass of the people, they advo-
cate doctrines and acts which, if carried out,
would reduce the mechanic and laborer, who
constitute that mass to the condition of the down
trodden masses Of Europe. That which consti
tutes the difference in the condition of those
masses in the United States and Europe is, the
high wages and demands for labor in this country,
in Europe wages being down to the lowest point
at which the laborer can exist even upon the
coarsest fare, and by depriving himself and family
Of the use of meat. Luxuries are things they do
not even dream Of, and only know that they are
things which belong exclusively to the privi-
leged-to the rich--to their task masters.
That Locofocoism would bring about this state
Of things is proved by the following extracts.
Hard money and low wages, it must be recol-
ected, are inseparable.
Reduce our nominal to the real standard Of
prices throughout the world, and you cover the
country with blessings and benefts."- -Buchan-
ans speech on The Sub Treasury, February %.
"Articles are manufactured in France and
Germany for one-half Of the actual cost in this
country."-Buchandn.
:" 1t was the other day that saw an extract
from an English paper which stated that whilst
the cutlery manufactured in Germany was equal
in quality with the British, it was so reduced in
price, that the latter would have to abandon the
manufacture altogether. ''-Buchanan.
81 desire that this country may attain the same
happy condition Of the Island Of Cuba by means
of purely metallic currency.''-Senator Wal
ker, Of Mass.
"To the Southern States-to the whole cotton,
| rice, tobacco, and sugar-growing regi IN, now so
| grevousiy afflicted with the curse OF the paper
| systemic all this region would say, study The
financial system of Holland. France, and Cuba
Initiate hem"-Senator Benton's speech on the
Sub Treasury February l6.
"The foreign manufactures goes home, pur.
chases his labor, his wool, and all other articles
which enter into his manufacture, at half thei,
cost in this country, and again returns to inun-
date US. "-Buchanan's speech, January %.
Establish hard money Government."-Beu-
You must reduce the value Of property
Buchanan.
Establish system of collection disburse-
meut, and safe-keeping of the public money like
that adopted in China" GLOBE.
ANOTHER SCREW LOOSE.
The Cincinnati sun Of the 18th inst. has the
following in reference to Mr.. TOP, the Locofo-
CO candidate for Governor of Ohio:
AND STILL ANOTHER BETRAYAL.-The Demo
cratic Party is betrayed again; but thank God it is
not undone Long after the grass has fourished
over the graves of those weak men who have,
E,o~ oh !, T.