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srhe Right. of Labor

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sThe Rights of Labor
Such is the title of comprehensive treaase on
Political Economy by CALvIs CoLToE, Author OF
the .Jupius Tracts Life and Times Of Henry
CLAW, &c. which has recently been published by
A. 9. Barnes & Co 81 John-st in a neat, compact
octave Of 90 pages, for twenty FIVE cents copy
The Rights OF Labor-how cavalier is their
treatment By the mob Of Political Economists =
how narrow and outofthe.way their place IN the
great works which are held to enbody whateFers
most essential of Economic Science In the view
OF the eminent Doctors Of this Science Labor IS IN
deed an element Of public AID private wealth but
only deserving ofregard Ike wind or steam or va
term view of its necessity and the profit to be
derived from it But better day is dswning up
on the Laborer. 1t is beginning to be more ride
" understood that the constant employment and
due reward Of the Laborer is the primary consider
alton, 10 which the cheapness Of Products should
be held subordinate. A true and just idea OF La
bor-of it's nature, uses rights and tendencles-~lll
vet revolutionze the science of Political Economy
The premonitions OF the approaching change are al
ready upon as
In this view, Mr.. Cotton snew work is one OF great
practical value We would not intimate that his
views are precisely nccordant with our own though
there is very little indeed in his volume IRON winch
we would dissent. There are points. however on
which we think he does not push his principles TO
their legitimate conclusions-iu fact we sometimes
suspect that he does not see whittier and how far
his principles rightfully tend Be that it may,
hi, book az it is is good one and richly deserves
II,
spicui.y and cheapness are morally certain 10 com
nand
With this slight INTRODUCTORY we make room tor
q few extracts taken, nearly AT random, from MIR
Colton's work They relate almost entirely 10 the
palpabc Effects Of true Protective Policy on the
prosperity and welfare of people. Believe me
for my acoyks' sake is test 10 which the advocates
Of Protection uniformly appeal No fair mind can
resist the testimony Of Experience that our periods
Of Protection nave been periods OF comparative
thrift and progress, while our periods of relative
Free Trade have been marked by widespread dis
as.er and bankruptcy. Why this is So the reader.
if not already apprised may CLEAN some idea from
the following disconnected extracts
The Effect Of Duties phicl Pro,ectio..
II is doubtless true, that mposts articles which
cannot be produced home such coffee tea, spices.
and numerous other foreign products are taxes though
the exact amount OF the duty AZ s com
monty supposed The duty itself sometimes cheapens
them for transient and even protrscted period
though ordinarily il tax But whether the tax will
be greater less than the duty depends supply rea
i've TO demand, at any given time There results so
various and always shifting demonstrate thh no GER
tain reliance be placed even In such cases on the
amount Of duty RS measure OF taxation The duty.
however may ordinarily be assumed as the average
measure.
Facts shopins that Pyctecfip, Duties Tares
rnt,o tyh ch OEt MI n VNrd hot tnr
Tariff of lsl6. have been reduced TO cents. Cotton
shr,ings have fallen under the system of protection
from y cents yard TO sheetings from 81 to
checks from 20 TO 6 striped and plain ginghems from
% to printed cacoes from 20 in ls26, 10 in ls44 -
each of the above being supposed TO be OF the same
quality at the high and reduced prices The fact, that
the British Government have been obliged TO ensc, dill
fereual duties for their Eastern dependencies fret OF
per cent then of si next of l0 and finally OF Is 10
clude American cotton goods is conclusive evidence
that the American manufacturers aud do sell many
fabrics. cheaper than the British This is great stu
pcndous result
From 1909 10 1914 before cotton manufactured in
the United States the British duty the material
was 25s Cd per cwt or 81 cents pound From lsi5 10
1919 II was S. Cd per cwt nearly cents pound.
At last 1t got down TO iarhing. pound and that
taken Off before shown for protection against Amcr
can competition But for American Gotten mapufAc-
lures the American cottongrowcr would have beer in
the power OF the British government at this moment
with duty against him in England OF s! cents pound
on cotton, more or less
There is no doubt il this domestic aud worldwide
competition had not been brought into the held by the
American protective system the prices OF cotton goods
though reduced would get have been kept up much
above what they al present Butthis not the most
important question is rather whether England shall
be made rich rs producer by monopolzing production
while grow poor consumers not being able TO pro
duce for want OF protection
wooen jeans, which sold in 1870 at Is cents yard,
were reduced under the Tsri. of 1852, be sold
In 1886 in any quannty-the more the better-and of
superior quality ut IS cents yard correspondent, OF
the Journal Of Commerce understood 10 be one of the
sditors found Yankee trader at Cleveland Ohio in the
of 1886 VINO had settled in Canada buying sat
inets md other low priced woolcn goods who said he
could pay the duties entering Canada, and make
more on them than get British goods al Montreal.
The price Of window glass in S:i when duty OF 50
per loO feet Imposed, was $40 80 per l0oNeet In
1928, price 50 so In ls46 price OF sby,lO most used,
g. rs, under duty Of 50. The cut glass works
Wheeling, Va forced 10 stop before the Tariff O;
1912 Under tina, Tariff they had more orders than
could be supplied and sold for - per less than be
fore The first glass works OF the United States in 1892
in number IL reduced 10 in 1872 to 70
under the Tariff OF that year labor in them per
cent aud the articles produced fell Is per cent So gen
orally In the glass business,
lu Rreport os the committee manufactures House
document 400 LIST session Gsth Congress, WAS proved
that the depression in the prices OF % different kinds of
manufactured iron under the influence OF the Tariff
Of lsi2 ranged from 10 TO 1t per centaverege
ton % per cent that in list of - different and chief
materials of shipbulding and rigging such had been
Imported the fall OF prices from 1892 10 lsti ranged
from to IS per cent-sveraSc reduction II. per cent
that, in list OF articles of hardware protect ted by
increased duties in the Tariff of lSi the fall of prices
ranged from l3 TO 30 per ent-averagc reduction Is
per cent; and that in list OF other
featured articles OF various kinds exhibited in the tables
OF that report the reduction OF prices under the Tariff
Of ls4 which afforded them the protection OF increased
buttons had been effected in such measures rs
above cited The evidence presented in that repor Of
the tendency and effect OF protection reduce prices OF
manufactured articles, uniform decided aud I'm
answerablc No one has yet been able 10 point to
in single manufactured article in extensive demand EN-
joying protection for home production the price OF
which has not been reduced and the higher In, duty
the greater the reduction Of prices,
Every production" SAYS Southern Planter" IN M.
Notes I'm Political Economy"-s remarkable book
eyee6y considering the quarter 'rcn which csms-ihr
Every production, he the esul, Protection IN
The country, has been brought cheaper and better into The
Market lhsn before such prolee,ion"' Practical men"
said Mr., Clay, n the Senate, IN 1885, understand very
well this slate OF the whether they 60 DO rot com
prcend Me Causes which produce II have my pos.
scssol Letter from respectable Merchant, well known
Afler so5iplanng OF the operation vi the Tara OF
has, the articles 10 hich spples OF hich he
had Imported ard that his purchases having beer made in
Eng land, before the passage VI thai Tafit Known il
produced Auch effect the English that The
arteies could be resvd without loss he adds for IL
ycay sSers that when duties are laid poa an
article, ii Then becomes lesSr, instead OF AisAsg.'
Erry pss Art arc CaltSs, Increase Of Na,iosal
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