Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-08-13
THE NEW TARIFF AND IT'S RE
SHIFTS

I THE NEW TARIFF AND IFS Be
StLT&.
Wages will Erst feel the blow of the
new Tariff; and in anticipation of the
time when it Is to 90 into operation, too.
To 90 on manufacturing in this country,
under the Free Trade Bill, We must have
wOTkmen ut as low wageSas in Europe,
and unless this is done, we must strip
manufacturing. Hence all fhe grea! IN
ierests of the country are now calculating
what is TO be done under the new order OF
things, and their first conclusion is that
wages must lower" or we must stop
work.
Cotton and woollens think they can
stand j.. New England and New York
vince and grOan, but they don't mean
TO die if possible. Some Shrewd capital
lists educiEg their own good fr pm the cum,
men evil, reason as the Evening Post dId
awhile agc-.ihai the new Tariff, by d.s-
troying the little workshops, will leave
their own great ones without competition.
Among the large manufactures, such as
those on the Merrimac, there is little or
no trepidation. Wages, they reason,
must fall, and they can therefore, make
cotton goods cheaper. The price of
wool must and will go down, and ley
can therefore, buy the raw material
cheaper. Competition in manufacturing
at home, will 60 down and the market
will, therefore be lett frecr. What is
death to small shops, will be life to great
ones. II costs no more for an overSrcr
to 10000 spindles than 10 1900. Iron
will be cheaper for mnchinery-fo il
can be purchased abroad now, as we'll as
from Pennsylvania. Coal will come from
PIctou, N Scotia, cheaper than from the
Schylkill, Maryland or Virginia. Thus
we see that the Yankees can, and will
live through it-fnr as Mr.. Webster said.
nothing can harm people that work ID
hours day.
So far as we can learn from a pretty
extensive inquiry in New England, the
effect of the new bill will be this, VIZ -
that all the large manufactures will 60
on as ever-lhat no new ones will be built
that all the small CUES will soon stop
that the large ones will soon lower the
rate Of wages, and curlail all their Incl.
dental expenses-giving less for WOOL
less pay 10 calico printeTs-less for pro-
visions, &c. acting throughout with
strictcst economy, and striving to make
up in savings VIVA; they lose by foreign
competition.
A bill effecting such changes should be
called A Bill for the better protection OF
the large manufactures, and for the de
struction Of the small ones,-and A Bill
reducing the rate of wages in this country
to the rates in Europe"
Not to be Cheated Ttcice.-At a recent
meeting Of the Democratic citizens Of Colutn-
bia Co. Pa "a county which in ls44 gave
majority Of 1920 tothe Polk Electoral ticket
a resolution was adopted against the Mckay
Tariff and another, boldly declaring that the
meeting would support " no man for Presiden,
Congress who is opposed to protection to Amer
lean Manufactures and Coal, or whose princi.
pies are OF doubtful character on this sub
Jcct.
nr5-C j. Stevenson's Regiment went to Gov.
ernors Island Saturday morning, preparatory
10 embarking for California. They are at once
TO be mustered into the United States service,
and will leave for California about the l4th oi
August. Their equipments are now nearly
completed They will be provided with India
rubber knapsacks, and haversacks, and their
whole uniform will be plain, neat and service
able. They will probably goto Rio, there take
in water and proceed to Valparaiso and thence
to California. The voyage will probably occupy
five to six months. Another regiment. as rn-
mored, is to be raised for California, to leave the
United States in November. Tribune Of Mon.
day. --
The TariG-We learn that the excitement
in Pittsburgh, accustomed by the reception ef
the news of the passage Of the bill to destroy
the tariff Of 1912. was most intense II was con.
sidered as deadly blow struck at the prosper.
ty Of the city, and gloomy feelings Of the cit
liens, fund ven, in bitter condemnation OF
The Locofocos who passed it., and especially Of
Mr.. Dallas. whose treachery created sentiments
Of mingled surprise and disgust
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