Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-08

/" FIRST EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF OF 1S46.-The
day after the receipt of the news at Boston of the
passage of the Tariff, the manufacturers put down
the price of their goods from five to ten per cent
AT the time this reduction was made the agents OF
the Lowell companies stated that they did not fear
foreign competition under the new law
[Ne,o York Epening Post
Very well. The great proprietors will doubtless
take care of themselves but what is to become Of
the men, women, and children who labor in the
factories, whose daily wages must be proportionably
reduced! That is the last thing that your Locofoco
politician cares for. Does the Editor of Inc Even
ing Post" or does any body else, doubt the fact
that the reduction Of the wages of the laborer is the
inevitable effect of prospective reduction Of the
Tariff! Here is one among thousand facts to
demonstrate it:
The carpet company at Thompsonville, Con-
nectcut, reduced the wages of their workmen
twenty-five per cent. in view of the effect which
the tariff will Immediately have upon their
business. Weavers who have received "a and 24a
cents per yard, will now receive but lS cents for
the same work"
That is to say, upon every man or woman who
earned four dollars by his her labor in this ma
nufactory, a tar Of one dollar per week is laid by
the new Tariff act for the benefit Of foreign capt.
talists and operatives! This is plain statement
of the case, which no man can gainsay.
The following paragraphs, drawn at random from
different papers that have lately reached us, serve
to show how the new Tariff is to work at home
One Of the largest iron oundes in the State Of New York.
the Vulcan Iron Works of Troy, stopped work Immediately
on receiving Of the passage of the tariff This
pany had recently erected large rongm and expected to
In pmplOy two
and expend two hundred thousand dollars yeary-Tbune
We hear that heavy order from the propreors Towns
end & Co., founders, Albany has been countermanded.
Forty workers of wrought nails Albany for the various hard
dealers OF that city thrown Of work However
sad these things there could have been way
to awaken hearty American feeling among operatives
than the passage of such a bL-N Gazette.
The disastrous effects of the tariff bill already be-
ginning be felt in Philadelphia One of our heaviest manu-
cturers Of wooen goods West stopped
his looms Others have made reduction Of and half
cent fabrics and several have been compelled discharge
hands. An extensive iron mandatory, learn will be
obliged TO discharge large number Of to-day Most Of
the manufacturers OF cotton goods at Paramount and other
manufacturing districts Of Philadelphia will either have stop
make reduction Of from twenty-five to fifty per cent on
wages. new hinge mandatory in Southwark we hear
will not be able go on-Norfh american Of Saturday
We learn from good authority that the rolling mill Wilkes
barre which lately into the hands Of Messrs Young
Wetmore, will be put in operation, that the tariff of
1912 has been repealed. -DanciAe (Pa) Democrat.
SropPAsE PoTTsvILLE-The consequences Of this foul
legislation not matters of surmise but il already that
almost all of the works which projected and being
established must be laid aside at once, they can
be gotten into such render this feasible Not only
this happen, but large and extensive operations have
already been closed the wokmen discharged and end put
TO extensive operations large machine shop which was
being built the walls having been completed, will be rooted
in, and all further work il postponed Indefinitely Al the
time tcrite black fag hanging from its waLs. Had
the protective system been preserved double activity would
have pervadd it, The coal shippers, who but few
weeks since unable to Gil the many orders they
cevin now, the half Of Them suspend their BUSH
ness and the rest without profit continue their operations
for the purpose Of providing for their abores work and
subsistence. All operations will feel this the market for pro-
duce will be affected, and all will suffer Immediately by the
general inactivity which will pervade all things.-ners
Journal of Saturday.