The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-09-01

FIRST EFFECTS OF rHETARIFF OF 1886
| The day after the receipt of the news at Bos-
| ton of the passage OF the Tariff, the manufsc-
turers put down the price of their goods from
| five TO ten per cent At the time of this re-
duction was made, the agents Of the Lowell
companies stated that they did not fear for
eign competition under the new law
NeD York Evening Post.
Very well. The great proprietors will
doubtless lake care Of themselves: but what
is TO become Of the men, women; and childrtn
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 the Evening
POST or does any body else, doubt the fact
that the reduction of the wages Of the laborer
| is the inevitable effect of prospective reduc-
| ton Of the Tariff Here is one among a
Thousand facts to demonstrate 1t;
The caIpet company atThompsonville.
Connecticut. reduced the wages of their work
men twenty-five per cent. in view of the effect
which the new tariff will Immediately have
upon their business. Weavers who have re-
ceived "a and 24l-2 cents per yard, will now
receive but Is cents for the Same work.
That is to say, upon every man or women
WHO edIucu IOuI ny MS idDOi
in this mandatory, atdr Of one dollar per
neck is laid by the new Tariff act, for the ben
eft Of foreign capitalists and operatives. This
is plain statement OF the case, which no man
can gainsay.
The following paragraphs, drawn al ran
dom from different papers that have lately
reached US, serve TO show how the new Tariff
is to work al home.
1T r. To-. - he
State Of New York, the Vulcan Iron Works
of Troy, stopped work Immediately on re-
ceiving news Of the passage Of The new tariff.
This company bad recently erected a large
rolling mill. and expected to enlarge their
operations so as to employ two hundred men.
and expend two hundred thousand dollars
yearly .-Iribune.
We hear that heavy order from the pro-
prietors to Townsend g. Co., iron-founders,
Albany, has been countermanded. Forty
workers of wrought nails in Albany Tor the
various hardware dealers Of that city are
thrown out of work. However. sad as these
things are. there could haxe been no surer
way to awaken a hearty American feeling
among our operatives Than the passage Of
such bill.-N. Y. Gazette.
The disastrous eHects oil tue ne" tsril oiIi
are already beginning to be felt in Philadelphia
One of our heaviest manufacturers ofwooien
goods in West MOysmensing has stopped his
looms, Others have made reduction of
cent and half cent on fabrics. and several
have been compelled TO discharge hands. An
extensive iron mandatory, we learn, will be
obliged to discharge large number oil hands
to-day. Most of the manufacturers OF cotton
goods ct Paramount and otht manufacturing
districts of Philadelphia will either have 10
stop or make reduction of from twenty
to fifty per cent. on wages. new hinge
mauufactory in Southwark, we hear, will no,
be able to 60 on.-Norh American Of Sdtur-
day.
We learn from good authority that the
rolIing-mill at Wilkesbarre, which lately
came into the hands Of Messrs. Young and
Wetmore, will not be put into operation, now
that the tariff Of 1912 has been repealed
Dannille (Pa.) Democrat.
SroPPAGF AT PoTTsvILLE The conse-
uuences Of this foulIegislatIou are not matters
of surmse, but il is already sure that almost
all Of the works which were projected and
were being established must be laid aside al
ouce, or as soon as they can be gotten into