Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-10-08
NEW sERIEs.-voL. V. No. IL.

tuS poor man Tlghl, lHan 10 thA hlh |
heavily from the cradle 10 the grave
The system for tie loborer fails utterly |
fits effect. Ii does not enhance the |
wages Of labor. The prices Of labor
in our manufacturing establishments are
but about ten per cent. higher than those
paid in Lancashire; and that superiority
Of wages is made up to the manufacur-
or by a more than prOportiOnale increase
Of production, through the greater ingsn-
uily and activity Of the American labor
eT.
Further. all taxes enter into the cost
Of production, and so into the price ol
the article produced. As taxes increase,
prices must increase, and-every increase
in price narrows to the manufacturer his
market. Thus The neutral market is lost,
and the demand for labor is consequent
ly diminished.
Further, the system imposes duties in
such menner as to diminish the nower
of labor TO employ itself necessarily in
many brahcheS. Witness The shipping
interest. 1t has been said that the first pc
tiiion for protection came from tine ship
rights Of Chareslon. s. c., probably from
soiourners there But ifhe first Petl-
ton for special protection did come from
shprighrs, dearly do they rue it. A hun
dred and twenty wears ago the ship yards
for English merchants were very rnuch
iu New York and New Engand-Ameri.
ca huilt a large part Of British shipping,
and furnished supplies OF shipping sue
cessfulIy to Inc French and Spanish Is
lands. Nov the duties on cordage, sail
clot h, chains, chain cables, copper and
iron bolts. make ship building dearor here
than in EGrope, our shiprighis are
utterly excluded from the supply Of ioT>
eigners. AMI our own ships are often sent
10 foreign ports to be re6tted, aad thus
our legislation, far from truly protecting
American labor, condemns our rjggers.
sail makers and cauIkers 10 no incons'd'
erable loss Of employment The old FASH
ioned restrictive system also, OF which
the remains still linger with US, levied
and still leyies taxes on consumption, on
articles o. food, articles necessary TO eV>
ery family. All such taxes operate Ike
poutaxes, to be levied daily--'hey are
INJURIOUS TO the manufacturer-and TO
the Iaborer they are more unjust, as they
virtually lay burden on persons and not
on property. Nor is this all. We have
corrected much in the worst Tea
rture OF the restrictive system. But much
emaiEs to be done. The discrimination
of duties, as il now exists, favOrs arti-
cles of luxury, is grisvOusIy and most
uneuually severe on the laborer. The
coarser carpets for example, pay sixty
per cent duty; the finer but twenty hVe
mar cent. The c0aTser and heavier and
mole universally used silks pay nearly
four times as much on their cost as the
finer and more delicate. And this holds
true Of fmany other articles of very gener'
al use. The discrimination now taVOri
,he luxurious, aud burdens the poor
This should be reversed. Are our OP'
moments sincere? And will they agree tc
such reversal? cloud aPplause.) One
word more to our opponents. They pro
fess to Join us in regard for labor. bu
the rslief and elevation Of the iabcrIl!
class must be achieved by their own toll
and their own intelligence. (Lou'
cheers.l They demand the opPorluni',
} for instruction and intellectual culture
! Rv means of mental culture, the hum
T bIest mechanic may stand among the WIS
a., se well as among the best OF man
) lind M tCtias Of THAT'S the truth!) IL
f Is a large heart capable OF love ior Gnu
, wife. friends, freedom and country Il
, is keen eye, suited TO grow familiar v u
/. the beauties Of that creation which w
9 has made so lovely andso observable
n loud and long continued cheering j.
e 70 vindlcato the rights Of America is Il
y first duty of America, and Tor that ell
g to ensure TO them the time for imProv
$ ment. (Cheers) Win our oPponen
d who are SO Jealous for the poor mar
l. rights. join the democracy in payl
t, homage 10 one Of the greatest ideas til
r swav the age 10 enc which Van buren,
ig President, in the naE,e of the AmerIc
As people, held up to tho world as The apPI
in nriate system for freemen' IN Wo'
or Iet our opponents Join US in asserting
,aI mighty truth that lies ct the foundation
of the ten hour rule. (Grsat sensailon'Io,
o. and continued cheering, end every p, EOS
gh bie demonstration ofapPlause; we
an turn. then, to the principle mat So 80
:. .U1i he tariff is to discriminate in rega
:. .Ss @ Iaborer, it should DO what p
oO =" 70 o.ar '"' vet Leen done discriminate in
ns mo,O nor Of The laborer, by levyng The hea
- ~. | TAX on orioles Of luxury. tFem'
%n @or Sous ~, lei cheering and loud cries OF 'tha
~ 10 ,bo IU American doctrins.@ In like m
his nsr in the arrangement Of the tariff
oer in,srs sis Of agriculture must be const
nat ed: and for the manufacturer, we in
xtv thai the great design should not bs
I'm. rive sudden profits, the results OF
our srd q but 70 ensure steady and equal
la tsc,ion, and thus lead him TO comp
bst. far the great neutral makrets Of
and world, (ChseU) To this end the n