Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-19

PAUPER LADOR.--OGe of the parrot
phrases OF the monopoltst manufacturers
IS, we cannot contend with 'stse paapCr Ia
Dor of England" And how IS pauper
labor created there? Precisely in the way
monopoly is proceeding here. By the
corn laws OF England, which exclude al
foreign competition with the landed arts
tocraey, who hold the food OF the king
dom in their hands, the people are 50 taxed
upon their bread and meat, to raise the
revenues of the rich, general pauperism
is the result. So our manufacturing mo
nopoIlsts are working il. They tax our
foreign competition for the coarse raimentI
and the implements of labor used by the
working classes among Us; aud, as a con-
sequence, these classes are oppressed
their earnings being appropriated through
the bounty levied for the capitalists--ua-
Ill, from accumulation on the one hand,
and deslitution on the other, pauperism en-
sues. What an evidence have we Of the
tendency of the system in the scrap here
taken from Boston paper:
" MUNIFICENT LIBERALITY.-TheH Hon.
abbot Lawrence, of Boston, has given
the sum Of twenty thousand dollars TO
the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic
Association, to aid in the erection Of a
hall for the establishment OF free school
therein for the education of apprentices
in those branches of learning which may
be most beneficial TO their several pur-
'suits. The Boston Transcript says:
"This noble and princely donation has
'been accepted by the association, the
Boot estate in Bowdoin square purchased,
'and premium of Sl,50O offered for the
: best design for hall, which VIC trust wall
: be of such a character as to reflect honor
on the association, and lasting m1nu-
ment of the industry, enterprise, aud en-
lightened liberality OF the citizens Of
Boston"
Munifcent liberality from 4 man who
produces nothing, but whose immense
wealth is the tribute money cxtorted BY
the tariff from the very mechanics TO
whom he returns it as n charitable donation,
The capital which has swollen TO such I
bulk il the hands of Mr.. Lawrence, thr0'
the exorbrant profits created by 4 tariff
which adds a hundred per cent. 10 the cost
of the fabric, was originally 4 mustard
seed compared with what it is now. Mr..
Lawrence was poor, and, in all likelihood,
his beginning was borrowed. Its vast
qualification Is the result o. the law, not
of his labor. Yet he deserves credit for
his literally; for he Is the only one,
of ten thousand monopolists in the coun-
try. who has the heart to return a silver
Of the immense gains conferred BY staiu-
tory bounties, to the poor mechanics, for
whom charitable associations" have be-
come necessary to relieve them from the
oppression Of The capital privileged TO
fleece them.
In the papers Of the city in which W.
see these charitable acts OF the mauuiac
tuEer to our laboring classes exto.leI, We
find notices of this sort displayed:
"Ihere lrere exported from Boston,
during the rreCk ending on the 2Itt iHss.
1885 bales Of domestic goods. Of these,
] ,675 bales lrere shipped to Valparaiso. .
These domestic goods sent round the
world to the western regions Of South
America and China are sold cheaper than
they are at home. The American manu-
facturer undersels the British in all these
foreign marts, while he asks and obtains a
tariff of one hundred per cent. to expel
the British competitor from the home mar
ket, to give him the monopoly. The Bri-
fish manufacturer, at the same time, cries
out in vain against the legislation of his
own country, which gives the landed aris-
tocracy the monopoly in the sale Of food,
excludes foreign produce, and levies a dou-
BILE tax on the aliment Of the operative; at
once reducing his power to serve, while
the expense of it is increased to the en-
ployer. Then they have to encounter a
greater charge for the steam-power they
use than the American manufacturer IN
ours for his water-power, besides the duty
on the raw material and the cost of freight
across the Atlantic. These are causes
which disable the British manufacturer oil
domestic goods to compete with ours in 70
reign markets; and yet the people are
compelled to endure for our capitalists a
hundred per cent. impost 10 protect him al
home against these foreign rivals, impoteni
to contend with him far away in China OF
South America Globe.
GOVERNOR SKUNK of Peensylvania, n.