The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-08

Cotton u O2o 4s6I $3.50 $50 sai6. $50 4.ll4SS0
Woolen l422459 ,lS4,oI5l al2sssSI $500 V1
Iron llOlb,OOOl I,S3o,lVI 2nEo34oI -,
Hemp 36l s92l 636, 40 2yts6,ls4 6rt3l w
Sugar molasses y 29 s2s 9l56 i37 3667 ABS 1890
silk ll7aIl 3?lll3 asl $50 5000 44b.
That act lays Il large portion of duties on false
principles-assumes false values for purposes oil
taxation-spechcs and minmums resorted to
to cover up it's iniquues from the gaze Of the Peo'
pie. Mr.. Walker says that during the last year the
average rate of ad yalorem duties was only % 81,
and that Of specific duties was 4l.3O, the revenue
arising from the former exceeded that from the lat
ter-showing the enormous prohibition consequent
upon the higher specific duties Mlnimums are
thus described by Mr.. Walker
"Nnlmums fictitious value assumed by law instead
of the real value and the operation Of all minmums may
be illustrated by single example Thus by the tariff o
1912 duty OF 80 per cent ad ysorem is levied all
ton goods mot dy ed colored printed stained not
ceedng value twenty cents square yard shall he
square yard il is placed BY the law at the false value
aettious valus-rasng Ave times higher the cheap
article consumed BY the poor than upon tho fine article
purchasedb by the more wealthy"
That act also discriminates most odiously for
the manufacturer against the farmer, the mechanic
the merchant AAd yet the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts, MIR. WINTHROP, who addressed the
; committee some days since, in a very ingenious
speech, and whom | always listen TO with interest
and pleasure, would warn the American laboTeI
against the hollow hearted sympahes OF the de-
mocrucy What course is he pursuing, sir, who
/, sounds this warming Is he for throwing of the
shackles from the limbs Of labor, which have beer
transmitted upon It through centuries' ls be for do
ing away restrlctiOns and for opening the field for
labor Is he for inviting the commerce Of teemlng
world 10 ourselves, and opening here a market
where the broadcast competition shall exst-where
every article Of luxury and necessity shall be
brought to adorn the mansion of the rich and "a
render comfortable the habitation Of the poorl Is
he hraa HntD he uyhlr
ton has erected to turn the tide of labor into but
few channels, where choked, and embarrassed, and
distressed, il shall succumb to necessity and be
come prey to capital Is he for inviting tn,
plnIng seeker for employment to the broad anc
, almost boundless public domain of the West, where
want dies and comfort and independence spring
from it's gruvel No, sir. None of this is TO be
; found in the system the gentleman advocates. The
old English system, which has insidiously crep intC
the country since formally declared ourselves
free from unjust English restrictions, is the system
here advocated by the gentleman and his friends
and which they have improperly dubbed 'the
! American system" As in England its policy
is to keep lands al high palue, so as tc
; keep them out of the hands Of the laborer
Hence we find these hgh-tarif men ever op
posed to a reduction of the price Of the public
lands and to prescriptions. An eminent instance o.
; this was MIR. Clay, the author Of this miscaec
American system" who spoke Of these pre.emp
ton claimants as Gland pirates" Lands being held
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correspondngly high, but few afford to be farm
ers, and the great mass of labor is consequently
thrown upon other empoymens Hence, the ave
nues Of industry being few and labor being plenty
, its great competition brings down wages to a low
; | point-that of nero existence This is what il
: needed and desired by the manufacturers. Bread
being high, landowners are benefited. Bread be
ing high, and labor superintendent, labor is compel
led, to support life to work at manufactured prices
The whole policy of the system is to produce iht
same state of things here. If the hig h-arf mer
can succeed in reiardng emigration to the West, by
keeping Us high possible public lands, ant
particularly our poorer and therefore intrnsically
cheaper lands, they will to that degree throw
greater amount of laborcrs back upon the already
crowded avenues of industry in the manufacturing
States. This state of things, of course will pro
duce greater demand for employment by these
FL poor laborers. This demand the manufacturer take:
advantage of, and by it gets his work done at cheap
er rates than lie otherwise would be able to do.
Now, sir, mark the wide difference between such
| system and the true American system advocated
by the democracy In the first place, we desire tc
furnish currency with which the laborer shall BE-
paid, which shall not depend upon the solvency and
banking skill of any set of capItasts-a currency
which shall pass the world over-gold and silver
upoH which there shall be no loss-no depreciation
land which no broker shave
u In the next place desire to break down sys
tenn which has used the immense taxing power o
this government to enable the manufacturers of iron
wool, cotton sugar and other necessares OF life, tC
sell those articles to US at greater proht than they
would be able to do without being protected. We
desire to do away with this unjust interference oil
the government, and to administer it that all shall
feel equally its benefits and shall be exempted
;, by favorsm and protection from bearing thei
share of its burdens.
FL In the next place, we desire to grade the price.
. of our public lands, that the laborer obtain then
at their true value and they be thus brought within
4 the reach of the poorest man in our community
- We would open by this process almost bound
less public domain, whose virgin bosom invites hon
est labor to its embrace and which is destined to be
= come the mother of numerous powerful States, L
y the poor of the whole world. We offer homes t.
the oppressed surplus workmen of the over crowd
ell manufacturing harts, where one-fourh of the
exertion Of thews and sinews will bring, as a re
. ward, double the remuneration, as well ndepen
g dence, morally and physically We offer to them
when thus situated, markets to sell in, where tn,
merchants of the world are buyers; and markets tc
? buy in, where the merchants of the world shal
!. compete to buy of them.
teeming millions, who shall thus settle up cheaI
and valuable public domain, we thus give spring
. to every species of production.
ri Such, Mr.. Chairman, s q just comparison of TIT
: two systems long advocated in this hall-the on,
: endeavoring to use the moneyed and taxing powe
OF this government to subject the working classes
- the capitalists of the country-a cold, calculating
!, arlthmeuca machine, grinding up thews, ant
;, snews, and life ITSELF by its labor-savne machines
y and retailing them out to the community by weight
and measures; the other securing freedom 10 indus
: try, and independence 10 labor.
n STRAfED, on the 9Th of June, from the sta
a ~ BILE Of Rev. o. B. Brown, Washington, darl
" bay horse, with black tail and mane and a darl