Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-09-30
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MIR. WHartcN;-l SEQ YOU ere tepub.ish
ing kennedy's Essays in favor of the Tariff. -
II wont d~ Kennedy will be beat and the
Tariff put down, and |, for once, gra;ifcd b,
the dolngs of the democracy. ! I've IL town
and live on my money. have to bly provi-
sions in market & have to hire working.pop.
pie to help ME, & like to do both as shtub a.,
possible. am opposed to raising the prices
of anything. My fortune is fixed and the les,
rich other people are the more rich am L.
Few people now have as much as have, and
and II Others get richer really get poorer, al
though may be able to keep what have. -
And as do what every person else does, con
suit my own interest, wish cheap marketing,
low wages, aud every person else to b, poor
do not mean them any harmon mean to
say wish them To want, but do not wish
them to get richer, because that felativel I
makes me poorer, besiles greatly increasing
the probability that shall have to pay higher
prices and higher wages. ] say the Tariff will
I've repealed and l shall for once be pleased
with III, doiugs Of the democracy. 1t is said
eSitemes sometimes meet True. and do
not care to meet the democracy i'm this way.
Tor know tt'at low wages will keep them
from meeting ME in the parlor, a thing more
dread than joining them in politics or party
dogmas. say, let the Tariff 20 by the board.
Last year and for two or three previous years
got M marketing almost at my own prices,
thought my butter at q, e and 10 cents per
Id. and every thug else propor,ionably low.
Now must pay Is and IS cents pottnd for
butter, and like advance for almost every
thing else. Then could get help whenever
wanted 1t, ami that too atiow wages with
the additional advantage that could then
choose whom | would employ, for the men,
and the boys, and the women too. who hire
out, were continually calling on me for work.
Now have TO run after them, and pay birh
wages, and get no thanks, ami what is worse.
one half oi the time ! can get no one to serve
me when | want them; and as To beating
them down in their wages that is now out of
The question. Then the hirelings were cour-
teous and reasonably submissive. Now. when
call on Them to work or do job they look at
me william air and mlnncr which plainly
tells me that they are thinking Il am as good
as You are, aud will work when. and where
"nd at what prices please" These are not
tlic tim-s for me, nor are the men and princi-
pies which bring about such times the men
and principles for me. | go for other men
and principles, though they may be the prin.
glnlpS N | Of IA, Il - &.
cheap wages and lUw marketing, and the
wings or the devil nfay, for me, haze the glo-
ry OF thriving towns AMI prosperous fields of
good times aud saucy laborers.
have ask ID myself what it is which has
brought about this change. Now, people may
debate it as they please, but am satisfied
can see the reason Of it plain enough. For
two or three years past or more our mlnufac-
tories and m, chanic's shops were idle or do
ing but little, aud there was little or 10 inn
proven mt going on. Now these manufac-
turing places and shops are in active opera
ton, many new ones ar, being erected and all
our mechanics and laborers are busilyemploy-
ed and improving and at increased wages /
have attended TO my own affairs many years,
making my own purchases and engaging my
own laborers, male and female; and have OBJ
served IT never fails to happen, that whenev-
er the manufacturing Interests, re pro porous
every body is employed, town and country
improving, marketing 1ds deGr, loages high
and inborers scarce and di6icpH 10 be had
But want cheap marketing, low wages and
plenty OF hands. | cannot therefore. but re-
joje lathe downfall Of systems and princi-
piles which are designed to encourage manu-
iacturcs, and as this is the avowcd object of
the Tariff, | must rejoice at the certain pros
pectl see of It's speedy destruction by the de-
moCracy. For once, at least. is democracy
good for tire interests Of the aristocracv.
Adicu, brother Wharton--0nd Il there is no
better sort of aristocacy in the country than
Clay Whigg"ry, ] say good bye to IL too. Il
go for that which has sense enough to uphold
its own interests, even il il should DO it under
the name of democracy. care not for names
give me the substance.
Nh 0h{S FEEDER AEJgC
AND ARlSTOCRAT.
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