Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-09-02

on both sides abolished, leaving absolute
free trade between it and the other states;
and this freedom of trade is The only man
ner in which annexation brings itself home
to the people in their Individual transac-
tons. They now derive their supplies
from, and send their produce to, the Uni
ted States, uncounted and untaxed, and
they experience the benefit of it. Eng
land now virtually proposes the same an.
nexarion. By aboishing her corn laws,
she asks to have her 100000 of Anglo
Saxons numbered among the consumers of
western breadsuffs, and the conditions
are, that the producers of those bread
stuifs shall take their pay in the products
of British industry. This is objected to
by the makers of similar goods here, on
the plea that England can furnish them
'too cheap" that unless the monopoly
prices that exist here can be sustained,
the manufacture will be abandoned, and
the Union become ''dependcnt'' upon Eng
land for goods. What then? If the vast
capital, manufacturing skill, and resources
of England, become annexed to the Uni
ted States through the bond of mutual in
joy larger quantity OF comforts and luxu.
ries for the same Labor that they now be
stow, where will be the evil? 1.-THE great
capitals of the Lancashire mill-owners
come to compete with the corporate mo-
nopoly miIl-owners here, for the supply of
the great mass of the American people,
there may be fewer overgrown fortunes in
the hands of the mill owners, there will
be more comfort diffused through the land
1t is, however, not true that any dimi-
mutton of manufactures will take place in
consequence of European competition; on
the contrary, the consumption of goods
must be vastly increased, and, as d cOnse-
quence, the quantity 10 be made must
swell in an. equal ratio. The free import
Of corn into England will ensure cheap
bread in England, and every practical per-
son is aware that in England cheap food
is accompanied by a larger consumption
of goods. The same cause will produce
a steady market for produce, and eXhanGe
the means of the farmers to buy goods
while the low prices of those goods will
ensure an extensive consumption. By d
double process, therefore, the demand for
manufactured goods must, according to the
admitted principles of trade. be enhanced
here and in England. Why, under that
increased demand, will the manufactures
he diminished? TIE pretence is evidently
without foundation in fact. The Only eff
feet will be to lessen the profits in the fac
tory monopoisls. The demand for an in
creased quantity of goods must increase
the number of operatives, and, as a con-
sequence, improve the wages. NIichelet,
the able historian of France, describes this
operation as follows:
"AIl who can do nothing else, take TO
the tending Of machines, and in proportion
to their number, their acages Iouer, and
their wretchedness increases. On the
other hand, articles, thus cheapIy manu-
featured, are brought within the reach OF
the poor, so that The misery of the machine
C0rkmna lessons in some degree the misery
of the workman and peasants, who are,
probably, some seventy times the more
numerous.
awe had experience Of this in 1912,
The cotton mills were at their last gasp;
the warehouses foil to bursting, and no
sale. The terrified manufacturer neither
dared work nor stop with these devouring
machines of his interest on the money
he has borrowed does not stop. He kept
his mills going half days, and heaped goods
on goods Prices fell; to no purpose
They went on falling, until cotton fell to
three pence a yard. A
miracle followed; that word three pence
operated into an "open sesame" Millions
of purchasers Of poor folks, who never
bought, started up. 1t was then found how
immense d consumer the people is when
set agolng. The warehouses were emp
tied as if by magic. The machines went
to work like lurles. The chimneys vomi-
ted smoke. 4 II was a
revolution in France, scarcely noted, but
still great one; a revolution in the clean
illness and establishment of the dwellings
of the poor-body-li bed-linen, table
linen, window curtains--whole classes &C
qulred these things that had never before
known what they were since the begin
ming of the worId.''
This was the woodworking magic OF
that cheapness of price which protection
lists held up as a bug bear to the people,
The cheapness, by which goods are pa-
ced within the reach of all, is scarcely
guarded against BY the protective policy
Grave statesmen and Christian phian.
thropists raise an outcry against the "pau-
per labor" of England, which hackneyed
phrase, if it means anything, means that
the products of industry and frugaIity jeo.
pafdize the profits Of INDECENT possessors
of capital. 1t is not alone against the
foreign artizan resident abroad tina: this
cry rs directed, but it is applied to the adop.
ted cilizen, who, seeking our shores thai
he NAV eniOv the whole fruits of his own