New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-10-07


-, ersre7scs that you eolI not a5oa 70 % So bat
upon the distinct e;roand that Labor IS commodity
m The market n be bough. and sold for what II
viii fetch Ike any other, We know II vas So
And now suppose your profits have ecenincreased
oaec1rih during the last seven years do you con
sider that reason Tor increasing pro r7tG the com
pensatiou OF yonr workmenl Suppose ycur profits
should stil farther increase tweHry rive Per eeat
trs year while the usual wages Ct PRINTERS stiea-d
decline one hall, would you leel under any oo-i-a-
ton TO increase the wages YOU pay in accordance
with the increase o. soUr profits Nay would
you pot feel perfectly justified IL re9aeiag them -
rs 10 accord with the market value OF Labcr gen
orally VIII you answer
The story told BIZ the Post OF Cottoninlil stop
ped b. an attempt 20 reduce wages Is very Erat!-
fyinr. ftrue bat what does it prove That the
owner Who thought he could hire labor cheaper
did rrcrc IN making the attempt or that he made
cross bunder3 suppose he thought that not
Only his : abrics were, bDt Factor! Labor was des
tinc TO fall ia price IN consequence cf the Tariff
what should he rightly do Is man WORTHY OF
death because he thinks he cannot afford. N an a
tered state Of things to pay the wages to-day that
he could and did afford TO pay last month OF year
We wIu now invite attention TO an article OF
different character but similar tendency-an extract
from letter in the Lowell Folos IF iHdpst'y-
written By its Editor to Mr.. Lawrence, one Of the
principal owners and managers of the Lowell Z &C
tories The Voice is paper devoted TO Industrial
r eiorn, honest and earnest IN It's inculcations.-
The Editor says:
In Europe, with her permanent factory population
me violation Of physical Law Is 20 constant mat AZ IN
-nalneld and other manufacturing d!-trcts tue aver
age length OF life only sixteen years while that OF the
aristocrsry thirty three years The poor do not i've
out half their days And your system Of factory labor
is worse y lar than that Europe You furnish your
operatives with more healthy sleeping apartments
than the cellars -arrets OF the English poor our
Corporation arc 40 constructed ana the
price YOU paw for board s small that the keepers are
compelled in order live allow but one room 10 -iS
person. and generally crowd twelve, and sometimes
sixteen females into the same hot n ventilated attic 70
breathe and over again the same dead pu,fld AT
shut up the operative TWO or nrec houIs longer
dav in YOUR factory prisons than j. done in Europc TO
inhsle the masrn Of the ied stgnant Atmosphere 20
gcthcr with cotton ue and mil! dust pregnant win
fever and consumption You allow them but hall an
hour lcss time than they would dare deny thcm IN EH'
rupe3 10 their meals forcing them 10 s"aio" theE
food in such Indecent haste and with 20 little prrpaa
ton generate dyspepsia Jaundice weakness OF the
system and general debility You work them 50 long,
that they have time for daily bathing as protection
to their health You permit such short intervals oi
uea nat mere j no
10 prepare with suitable clothing for the sudden change
OF temperature between the Summer heat OF The acto'
~ and the chilly winds OF Autumn and WINTER 10
which thew arc exposed You compel them 10 stand
so long at the msshnerv without any proper exercise
of the different muscles OF the body and such IN unnA
ural positions that varicosc veins, dropscs swelling
OF the feet and limbs &c diseases that end only with
life are not OF rare hut OF common occurrence.
Sir YOU system OF factory labor Ia no better IMAM
physical assassination II violates the laws oi health on
every hand and generates diseases that bring thousands
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entails upon thousands u Others chronic affections
which. though they mag live. will murder them by
inches make lie perpetual curse, cruel bitter an
aching burden, and transmit ~ their cmdrcn ire SEEDS
OF early death.
Here we have highly coiored picture OF the evils
OF Factory Labor and Life from which the reader
would infer that substantially the same evils are
no, the lot Of the poorer class out Of Factories
well as in them The writer iorgets TO state that
nine Yankee girls Of ten prefer to work in fac
tory rather than ms hired help in family, and
tina, the poorest class in cities are cd lodged
and taught than in Lowell. Still worse is the ms
SUMPTION which we often find III the Voice well
as in less conscientious journals that Protection IS
somehow to be charged with the wis attending
Factory Labor rs though there were some proba-
biity that Free Trade would mitigate them y ct
the fact is notorious that the evils generally above
complained OF are experienced in countries where
Free Trade prevails in a more aggravated form
than here indeed, any man OF sense mus, that
they nbcre in the existing relation of Labor to Cap
ita and cannot be seriously affected by any merely
external arrangements Put up or put down the
Tariff as YOU please. and wherever Manufacturing
any other business requiring great combination
OF Capital and Labor. shall bc prosecuted on the
bases oil Hiring and W ages there will still be bitter
and by no means eroundless complaints that the
Laborer is treated as portion OF the machinery
rather than as an independent intellectual, immor
tai being
VIII notthe wise and good look in,othese things!
We are accused OF Radicalsm for desiring
change in the relations OF Labor and Capital which
seems to as nminentlv dictated by a true Conscr
yatisnl We would coninc Labor and Capital in
the support OF their common interests by removing
all occasion for discord and hostility between them
We would take away the ladder on which unwor
Thy and incompetent demasogues are constantly
climbing to power. We would dissipate the de
ludng mist which too often deceives the Laboring
Mass into the support OF measures and men utterly
hostile to their interests and welfare. AS we see
the Loco Foco journals necessarily iomentine eal-
ousies aud war between Labor and Capital. where
by they count obtaining the votes OF the larger
number, we are the more anxious that the state OF
Il, least passive antagonism In which these two
great elements Of production are arrayed ny exist
ing institutions and usages should be changed to
one OF substantial Union-o! benefcent and lasting
Peace We have of course higher and more ur-
gent reasons for desiring this change than any
founded in merely Political considerations but
these be deemed unimpcrtant by any true lover of
his country or his kind Banish prejudice and
think
License or No License.
I'm Anti License meeting recently assembled at
Cooperstown otsego Co. adduced the following
cceent reasons for not granting Rum Licenses, VIZ
ResOired, That no government can give, and no man
can have. right TO do wrong.
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