The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-15
1874.
l,34O, 900 6,63O 1905, 900 5,34s

Reduction OF hands employed, ,265.
Average wages Of females in 1889, 80 90 per week.
Average wages of females in 1874, 81 rs per week.
Thus since the passage Of the presen. tariff, the
number of female operatives at Lowell have been re-
duced 1895, or more than one-sixth part since
lS42 And since 1893 the rates of wages paid to
protection which the poor and helpless female gets
from the tariff. Where, then, do the immense
bountes collected from the people through the in
strumeniality Of the tariff, go' Tho dividends Of
the factory owners ranging from IL to 80 per cent.
per annum on their capital stock, answer the ques-
ton. the capitalist not the poor operative aud Ia
borer, ,ohom tie tariff "proiecis."
And the remark Ii true in regard to all other "pro-
tected" interests. The operative and laborer are
put off with wages barely sufficient to furnish them
with the common necessaries Of life; while the capt.
taist who employs Them reves in opulence extracted
from the people through the fundamentally of the
iniquitous system of protection.
II the operative and journeyman are adequately
paid why the frequent strikes and turn-outs for an
increase Of wages in our cities and manufacturing
towns, among those valuable but oppressed classes
Of society
The capitalists or employers do not compose one
tenth part Of the number persons given in the CEN
sus as employed in manufactures. The protected
classes, iherefore--those who pocket the bouniie,
which thc-tarif compels the people to pay 10 them
cannot, at the outside, srceed $4,000 persons in the
,choie United States.
But pass on to the next topic which propose
to consider in this number, viz The nonsense and
absurdity Of the phig marim that the higher The duty
the lo,cer The price"
After citing Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Webster, ex-Presi-
dent Adams, and other highly respectable authori-
ties, against this palpably absurd assumption, il
would seem to be hardly necessary to go into q
grave argument to demonstrate its utter fallacy.
But, as il is now seriously insisted upon by the
wiseacres, or mpostors, of the wing school, | shall
devote small space to the refutation of this abb
surdity.
On recurring back long series Of years, do moi
deny that il will be found that the prices of manu-.
featured fabrics were higher than at the present
time. There is no doub, but they have, within the
last thirty years, been greatly reduced. This pc
rod embraces the time during which we have had
protective tariffs. And, in consequence of the two
facts Of the existence Of protective tariff and re-
duction of price concurring at the same time, the
propounders Of the absurdity, that the higher the
duty the lower the price, either from ignorance OF
sinister design, contend that the fall in prices ha,
been caused by the tariff, which, they alege, ha,
stimulated domestic competition, and thus reduced
prices. Tables Of prices are given in order to
prove the unreasonable and false assumption tina,
high duties cheaper prices. As desire to give the
advocates Of this doctrine the benefit Of all the facts
and arguments which they sdduce in its support,
will cite one Of their tables, which find in speech
delivered by member Of Congress from Massa-
chusetts during the debate in the House of Repre-.
ssntntives on the passage Of the present tariff II
follows: