Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-18

WAGES.-It is a well known fact that
the laboring men in this city; for two or three
years past, were measurably idle, and were
glad 10 get employment even at three or four
bits a day. Yet a few OF them. voted Tor MIR.
Clay, expecting thereby To better their condi-
ton. Clay WAS defeated. Polk was elected.
laborers now get their six to eight bits a day.
and they 80 on their way rejoicing-every ono
bssy-whig and democrat.
We were much amused the other dav, at
the conversation Of a couple oil honest Irish
men lat work piling boards at one of the yards
cf the CITY, which had reference to wages and
politics. Says Jimmy, 'that Henry Clay is
q great mamie Is the poor mans friend,
aud il he had been elected President, wedall
been rich, so we would" Pat, who had lis
tened 10 Jimmy's speech. aud having known
that he had not earned his salt for Two years
past, Strengthened himself up, and replied
with much warmth and NOR, of the broglie,
chan we cam: 'an is it making a speech, We
arc, Jimmy; why look'ce here, mon, did we
not burra for Clay till yer throat was sore last
year, and work Tor twenty-five cints a day,
and glad till get it, We spalpeen; and now yer
getting yer eighty siven cints a day, aud plen-
" TO work too? Ie should hurra for Jimmy
Polk. He is the poor mans friend has made
times good, saved our wives and children from
want, and he is our President. Hurra for Jim
my Polk-plenty of work and good wages"
Jimmy sung dumb, Pats speech knocked
the noise out oil ~him.-Argus.
This is in character with the usual mode of
loco foco ~electioneering. An effort is made
to impress upon readers the opinion that the
present Administration has been the source
from whence prosperity originates. What
has been done to induce this prosperity
This Administration has done nothing, has not
enacted one public law, nor has any step been
taken by it which could affect public prosper
ity. What has caused the laborer, then, TO
rejoice in abundant labor and wages? The
very tariff that this party would repeal. 1t
requires time for all public measures TO have
their influence upon the community.
The tariff was passed in 1912. The people
and country were then in debt. These debts
must be wiped oG-the balance due abroad
must be liquidatcd by our sales abroad over
and above our purchases. Years have passed
and this has been done. Capital has now re-
cupcrat.d, and has become active. The poor
have o labor. because capital is employed
in q healthy and profitable manner. Take a
way the source from whence this employment
originates, and you at once take from labor its
reward and the country its prosperity. Re-
peal the tariff and you take that away. Two
or three years would pass on the downward
sliding scale, and we would be again at the
bottom; aye, at the bottom, where labor
would notbe paid for and the capital of the
country would go abroad for ~luxuries or be
locked up in Golfers at home.
Let the loco foco party repeal the present
tariff, and the wings will be called upon in
3 again to bring forward and enact laws TO
promote national prosperity. They will do
Ii too, and it will then remain to be seen
whether the people will be again fools enough
To trust loco focoism with power, always ex-
ERASED by them as a curse and TO destroy.