The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-21


So much them for the instances of great statesmen of
our own and other countries who, possessing civil tai
ens, have been devoted also TO military services In
1912 Mr.. Madison entertained the idea of comforting
high military command upon Henry Clay Had he done
this no doubt Mr. Clay would have distinguished him
sell IN The army; but people would not have forgotten
that he had been statesman and an orator. and that
would have been his earliest claim to their regard Here
then is brought forward, without precedent justca-
hon mere military man for mere military services; and
tor Uhd military services! Good God that party pro-
Tossing to look upon the war in Mexico nrrder-as
nexcusable murder-whch had passed resolutions in the
State House in Boston, in which they treat it murder,
and duplicate every man who takes up in in the
guilt OF that murder, should then take up the leader in
that war, which they call unhoy, brutal and murder
GUS" and say to him, We know you have no other
claims excepting those acquired in this war-we know
you have been the chief in this 'sunholy brutal
and murderous war; and therefore select you lead
US on 10 political victory!
What, then, was lnquiring when | turned aside 10
consider tins strange and anomalous nomination-wha
then, would the wing party do to change the course OF
government, II lhey eo1d by any possibility get into
reply. ave will protect ourselves" lAppause) Why,
what is the democratic party IN the United Sates tits
the mass of the laborng people of the United States
And what is the wing party 1t the mass OF the capital
of the United States Now, here forward these pat
ronzing select few and say to the majority of the people
of the United Satesthe facts bear out saying the
majority since the democracy have ruled the country
with scarcely an inermssion since the revoutlon--they
say the majority, ''Oh, don't go you have been
gOing-give up the government TO us, and will pro-
tect labor" And how will they protect labor! Several
things they propose TO do
The democratic party is the party OF expansion, the
party of progress, the party of freedom. The wing party
the party of restriction the party of conservatism, the
partygye it what name you pease.that curtas free
dom on all occasions and every direction Now let
seefor say these things to bring them to practical
resuthow this character of the two parties bears
the question of the protection of American labor How
they object to of the territory of the United
States Is that the interest OF labor or capital very
little examination will show us where it leads. If mis-
take not, shall find that this party will do what
it has done in England, France, and everywhere else 1t
s contrivng great system to reduce the price of labor
II the territory Of the United States is freely expanded by
the xation of Florida, louisiana Texas, Oregon
and California, then cheap land is abundant and so long
cheap land continues to be abundant long you can
not grind down the wages o. labor e the saryaon point
some other parts OF Europe. There was great outcry
that the people of the United States ought not to 60 be-
yevDd hf e hannr s
runous to interests because the aoorng classes
cannot be confined like rats in cage, until they sarve
or eat each other, when they have plenty OF elbow
room. -
Here, then, is the way in which comprehensive dem
ocraic craftsmanship would begin TO protect laborby
afoding ample room, scope sufficient to work out its
will upon the whole unoccuped North American CONT
nent What interest is really injured by such course
Is your curtaed because you have Louisiana
Ask those who build the ships and them, what has
QUESTION of Louisiana Why If we had not had Louisi.
ana, wages would have been lower and the owners Of
cotton factories and woollen factories could have hired
men, women, and children, for less money than they
now can.
But let us look at the other side of the question Sup
pose that the manufacturing interest," instead OF their
miserable starving policy conceived by avarce engen
dered by stupidity OF shutting up men to keep their wages
down. that policy which defeats ITSELF as all selfish poll
substitute a wealthy laboring class To Be sure, the
manufacturer does not get labor cheap but he has ten
thousand customers he would have had under his
own system Instead of shutting up men and starving
them, spread them out where their labor shall be pro-
ductive to their benefit and part of that benefit
back TO the manufacturers because the aborer, in
stead of being poor becomes comfortable and buys more
cloth of the manufacturer.
SO, then, free diffusion of the population finds mar
ket for the products OF manufacture and finds products OF
navigation to transport; it builds up commerce and man.
ufacture, and gives birth to that glorious agricultural
community which, after all makes the backbone oil the
American nation. If those millions which fill the valley
OF the Mississippi could have been confined on tins side
of the Allegheny mountains, true, wages would have
been lower but men would have been less comfortable,
less intelligent, less deserving to take part in the man
OF their own concerns and less an object Of ad
miraon and envy the rest of the world. 1t builds up
great manufacturing interest; 1t builds up great agr-
cultural interest; it builds up great commercial inter-
est and the narrow, short sighted selfish policy OF re-
and Jacket of me, and do not let him to England for
them which says, do not send corn to England because
YOU must bring back in payment cotton and w0ollen
cloth destroys itself and dimnishes every one of the
great interests OF the country.
Let us see how directly it bears upon the agricultural
interests. If by tariff you shut out goods you also
throw out of employment the shcarpeners and sailors
who would have transported those goods and you not
only do this, but you at put stop to an immense
amount Of profitable agricultural labor; because the
English and Germans do not give broadcoths and the
French do not give silks and other articles But they
are all to be paid for and how In the agricultural pro-
ducts of the United States there other way They
not paid for in specie one years importation could
not be paid for by all the specie the United States
They are paid for by agricultural products and not
yard of cloth into the country but What encourages
american labor because somebody has raised Hour and
corn, which has gone abroad to pay for that cloth.
was talking about this the other day with very in
elgen gentleman and offered TO quote the facts and to
show exactly how the agricultural interests would be af
eced by tariff but he did not believe its statistics he
ed to argue the matter"Oh never care anything about
theory that is nothing but theory" In order, then, to
get along with the other side of the question, il is neces
sary first TO reject facts, and then to reject theory and
having rejected both, | should imagine man would be
pretty sure to go wrong.
pardon me if alIude TO such facts do not men
toned in the speeches upon the subject by my great wing
friends. Whenever tariff made more resfftchpe,
toich the higs call protection, the prices Of agricultural
products, general thing, fall; and oheneper you
lower your tariff, as general thing NE prices aga
wheat, tobacco, and sugar, but as general nlhs OF
every article in the whole list of agricultural oauc'si
and this is the fact not of one year ana one 'l' pu VI
all the tariffs and OF every year.
And now do YOU want to see whether this lact IS
trifng onel Take the products under tbe compromise
riff hinder Mr. Claws SYSTEM, when the duties began 10
h rednced take the average of the years 1889 to 1872
the four last wears when the tarli was reasonably low
and YOU find us selling larger quantities OF agricultural
products at higher prices From 1876 1916 agricultu