Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-10-22
Chapter for yVorkiu. Meu,or.,d

ChaPtcr for Working Men to req, d
Mr. SIS system was this: SeIec, the
articles yon can manufacture TO the full
extent OF our own wants. then, in the lam
guage OF Thomas Jefferson, impose on
them dniles lighter al first, and erwards
heavier and heavier as the channels of
supply were opened This was JefTer-
sons plan; The reverse of modern demo-
cra'ic tree trade Next Mr. S. went for
ieVying the highest rates Of duty on The
Injuries of the rich. and not on The ne
cessarIes of the poor. Ecourase American
manufactures, and while on the one hand
The poor man feund plenty Of employment.
on me other he got his goods cheap. lie
conld clolhe himself decenlly for mere
lr'fe. lie wanted no foreign commodi
ties but his lea and his coffee, and they
were free, and should remain free. The
poor man could now bny cloth for full!
silt from head To foot for less Than one
dollar of substantial American Manufac-
tnre. lie had himself worn in this hall
garment OF this same goods, al 10 cents
per yard. and it was so much admired
that more than dozen members had an.
P''ed Tor similar garments, aud they haG
been supplied to Senators and others. vei
we are told the tariff taxes and Expresses
The poor. Pat high revenue dulles on
wines, On brandies, on silks, on laces. on
Jewelry. on all that which the rich alone
consumed and which the poor man did
not want. lake off The duties from lhe
poor mans necessarles and give him high
wages for his work. That was the way
to diffuse happiness and prosperity among
The great body Of the people. That was
good sound democratic policy. He was
Tor lii'ing up The poor. He was for lev
cling upward for increasing the domes
TIC comfort of our own Iaboring popula.
non-ihe true democracy of The country
The rich could pay. and ough, to be made
to pay. and they should pay; the poor
man could not, and should not, with his
consent. Mr. S. went for The system
which elevated the poor man in the scale
OF society; that promoted equality. that
essential element in all free Governments
not by pulling down The higher, bu, by
lililng up the lower classes TO their level.
The gentleman from Alabama and his
friends advocated a policy which would
have precisely the opposite effect. Their
system would truly make the rich richer
and The poor poorer The gentleman
advocated system whose direct and un
denlabe tendency was to destroy compe-
'inon, and thereby give monopoly To
the heavy capitalists. lie would benefit
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those very 'mlIlIonaires of whose pres
ence here he complained SO loudly. Free
trade would inevitably degrade the wages
OF labor III every department of industry,
whether employed in the fields or iD the
workshopS. 10 the level of wages in En-
rope: his was as certain as the ebbino
and fnwing of the tides. W hat could be
palmer, Take two coterninous States
I-ken.ncky and Ohio. Suppose in Ken
nckv, as in Europe, wages was 1871 cents
YER day. and IN Ohio, as in the u. s., rs
enls per day. Now was ii no, perfect,
llclear that. unless Ohio protected her
| Prosperous labor, the productions of the
To- price labor Of Kentucky, boots, shoes.
hot. every thing would come in, and
conoel the mechanics aud laborers OF
Ohi'io come down 10 III cents dav
or gle up their markets. quit work, t,ii;
everything. sell nothing, and get rirht
And h submitted, would not his he The
ehec' " free trade with Europe1 The
"'i'y o''rrence was the cost of transport
ai'"h achss The Ohio and across the At
ian'ic; an with the modern facilities of
s,eah' In OF iron could be brought from
Europe 'oih's country for less than 81;
less IMAM iiwould cost to cart il 20 miles
on commandments. Such would be The
manifest ahhulnous effects of free trade
on me wagesof labor in every depart
meht OF The hional industry, and any
reduction OF prIeciion would be reduc
uon TO the sam,ex,ent of the WAGES If
| labor.
1t would degrae the free labor Of This
country TO the mlarabIe condition of the |
surf labor of foresn lands. where mon
were siaFes-with9t the means of edu. |
callng their childre-working from the
cradle to the grave, nd never asnirino !,
any 'hlng beyond sanity and miserable
subsistence; and suchwas the cond,,;on
IN which free trade INST inevitably hr;,a
the now protected an prosperous l.,
Dor of This grea, country Pull dow, tho
walls built up by The tart; of 10 IN n,o
iect and defend Amercanlabor-Ie,, tho
cheap productions of The l,y priced Labor
of Europe flow freely into our markets
and yon mus, sooner or late come down
to their degraded condition. moral .nd
political He. therefore. earne,lv ,n,o.I
ed 10 The laboring people of III, coun,v-
sovereigns of the land-who -,n,da al
and paid ALL. to come quickly Tho res
cue, 10 save themselves from IN, da.J
ing and disastrous ehec, of free has
The porer was in their own hand-,be,
could protect themselves a, the baat.bor
and, if they did moi, they would d.erve
The degradation to which they wow he
doomed. TO every candidate for &C.
PROFOUND this question; are you i,,co
cor Of protecting .4merica, against ,,.
eign labor by Protective Tariff
And let his answer be conclusive. m.
is the remedy-,he only remedy. /,
il be adopted, and all will be well. I'D
there stood The firm friend and humble
advocate Of the laboring man. He had
been laboring man himself; he knows
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