The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-09-22
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY MORNING SEPT. 20, Is4e.


SATURDAY MORNING SEPT. ~, ls4s.
ka TArin sephssms and FalIaciss.
In the Union Of Thursday we took the occasion 70 ex
pose the iaaces and the downright misrepresentation
contained in letter published in the National inst
gsncer puporting to have been written BY gentleman
who was present at the late tariff convention" al New
port Rhode Island got up by the fancy bal masque-
raiders at that fashionable resort take into conside
ton the interests Of labor and particularly the interests Of
such laboring men as Abbott LAWRENCE Nathan Apple
ton, and other gentlemen largely interested in the manu-.
featuring corporations Of Lowell We showed by the
clearest demonstration, based upon UNREASONABLE facts
that the statements Of the writer referred to were abso
lutely unfounded and untruehe mere fabrcations Of
some manufacturer who had probably figured dis
tnguished fancy" prince, count or noble, in the
lquerade that came of among the fictitious nobility
congregated at Newport and hence the fancy sketches
which he publishes in the National Insligsncer and
the attempts to palm them off upon the American people
as facts.
But these faaces and sophisms multiply upon us and
il would though the manufacturers had left of
fabricatng cotton cloth, the ron-masers had sus
pended casting pig on and both classes had gone work
to manufacture and forge facts Of nothing to prove
and who is receiving good prices for his products, had
lost all chance Of selling his surplus produce; that the
laborer in the midst of all this abundance and plenty
was actually sarying and that this great republic,
which is now hourshing in all its interests beyond
all precedent, was absolutely in state Of ruin
and desolation We must confess that with our eyes
wide open. and beholdng such overwhelming evidence
Of what used to be called plenty and prosperity. we
cam reaxa this state If fhin0s On is nj
fertile enough 10 imagine such picture of suffering
the wing press paints much less to believe that the
reality exists in the midst of such innnmeable proofs
the contrary everywhere meet our eyes.
To show that the federal press OF the country is a.
tempting to induce the farmers and aborers believe
that it is again sruned" asi always when the federal
manufacturers United States Bank chartered or
higher tariff established, copy the following paragraph
from the Philadelphia News, as sample Of what we
find in half the wing papers which we open:
VINO -The sgrcu,urists and laborers of our
country beginning experience the bitter fruits of
tariff of 1886 Under its operation the manufacturers are
nearly all losing money Many of them have already closed
their establishments, and il nothing be done the
session Of Congress relieve them, many will be
compelled 70 operation. The may be said OF
the coal operators They borne down by the pres
Ont freetade policy and unless change be effected soon
will have to abandon their mines and discharge their
workmen The effect of the staghation in these two i'm
potant branches OF industry already visible in the
duced prices of agricultural products With their
ton will the home market of our farmers and de-
mand for labor. Who, them will most feel the effects oil
the unjust operation Of the present pocy The
American farmer and aboser The former will be de-
prived OF market for his products, and the will find
himself unable to obtain employment sustain himself
and family.
The writer says that under the operations Of the tariff
Of 1916, the manufacturers neary all losing money.
Many of them have already closed their establishments
and nothing be done at the next session of Congress to
relieve them, many more will be compelled to ope
ration"
We will show from facts which cannot be conro-
yerted, that this is mere fancy sketch, having not the
least foundation in facts but that on the contrary the
truth just the reverse that the manufacturers doing
agood business; that they making money! and that
they have not ceased their operations In the first place.
we will show that they have taken cotton for con.
sumption during the last Years than during any pre-
vous two years in the history Of this country The fol-
lowing table shows the quantity Of cotton produced in
the United States and the quantity taken for home con-
sumption for six years, ending August als of each year.
and including three years under the tariff of 1912 and
three years under that of 1876:
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