The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18
THE REPUBLIC.

up, are now IN operation, and full OF life and ac
tivity; and laboris receiving the highest rewards,
and the avais of that labor expended among
our own people, instead of sustaining foreign CAPT
talists and artisans But, in the midst of this
prosperity, have any assurance of its stability?
Can the capitalist invest his money with safety in
the production of this article OF universal demand
is he again to be exposed to the production
of England, brought about by her pauper labor
and overgrown establishments? If So the result
will be the immediate prostration of all our iron
establishments, It's idle TO suppose that we can
without due protection, contend against the supe-
rior capital and cheapness of labor of foreign
countries, nor should desire it. With them
labor has been reduced, have shown, to
pauperism, and nothing exceed the restitution
and squalidness of that labor-starved, ragged
and dirty, beyond all description--men and wo-
men, boys and girls, promiscuously employed in
the severest kinds of labor"
The contingency suggested by this in
telligent writer has arrived The tariff Of
1916 has Frustrated the iron trade in Penn
sylvania, and has sacrificed American la
Dor to pauper wages and surplus products.
In that great State, things are in the con-
dition which Mr.. Senator CAMERON and
Mr.. Senator STURGEON, and all her rep
resentatives in Congress, Saving Will
MOT, looked forward to as the necessary
consequence of the tariff of 1916 They
are in that condition which the miners
and laborers of Schuylkill county-the
Democratic citizens of Sunbury and Wy
oming-and various other parts of Pennsyl-
vania predicted in their memorials and petit
tons against the Executive British tariff of
1916. They said that the passage of that
bill would destroy their business, shut up
their coal-pits, and beggar their families. 1t
has already partially accomplished all this.
As Mr.. CAMERoN-their own Democratic
Senator--announced on the floor of the
Senate on the day the bill passed that
body-the LOUD VOICE OF LABOR is calling
upon the country for relief And what is
the response of the friends of this British
Executive tarif-this bill of Locofoco
custom house officers and British agents
this bill which was concocted to win for
Mr.. WALKER the applause of British
Parliament; and which, with all the coax
ing, bullying, buying, and bartering of a
corrupt administration, was passed by a
majority of nineteen votes in a House
which numbered clear administration
majority of sIxTY' What is the response
of the friends of this British tariff to the
American laborer! We extract from the
Washington Union of Sunday, Septem-
| Der 10:
GA day or two since we called the attention of
our readers to the periodical camor got up by the
leaders of the Federal party and the iron masters
| of Pennsylvania, on the eve of every important
election, in relation TO the pretended depressed
state of the iron interest in Pennsylvania. The
inventors of this shallow device have two purposes
TO accomplish The politicians engaged in it
hope to influence the election in Pennsylvania,
and To persuade the people to declare themselves
in favor of the Wing party. The iron masters
have an additional object in view. They not only
desire the success Of the party to which they are
attached, bu, hsy ~-i-h Also 10 persuade Congress
TO increase the duty ON iron, and thus enable them
10 put more money into their pockets. They want
the privilege of laying still heavier tax upon the
farmer for his ploughs, chains, stoves, and iron
ware used in his household, than they are now
enabled to exact from him. And hence the hue
and cry about the depressed state of the iron in
terest in Pennsylvania. And hence, to carry out
the farce, and make the imposture more com
| plete-thc pig iron trick more effective-they
blow out their furnaces dismiss their hands. and
then raise most lugubrious groan Of distress;
make up imposing arrays Of figures to show how
much in wages the laboring man has lost, and
8 how much the farmer has suffered, for want OF
consumers of his products, as il there were not
the very same mouths 10 feed as before all this
parade and fuss made.
{" But this pig-ron' trick has been played off
so many times Of late, that the people begin 10
through IL, and TO be convinced that il is the re-
sort OF scheming politicians and avaricious iron
. masters, in order TO accomplish their conjoint
schemes Of political aggrandizement and selfish
acquisition of other peoples money. II hss led
TO searching inquiry into the truth Of the stories
invented and promulgated by these grasping
: iron masters and spectators in politics, which
9 has resulted in their thorough and Notifying
exposure. II has shown that their pretended facts
are fabrications, and their dismissal Of the poor
laborers employed by them cruel oppression, re-
sorted 10 in order to carry out this nefarious
scheme OF imposition upon the indulgence OF the
| country.
The causes Of this periodical pig iron ella
raised by the iron masters Of Pcnns ylvanis, are
now 30 transparent, that il has become disgusting
10 the community. II is now understood 10 be the
conjoint cry Of grim, Unsuitable avsrice and polit-
ical desperation, and deserves, and should receive,
the contempt and rebuke Of the intelligent people
upon whom It il designed TO operate"
Such are the views of the Opposition
journals, called forth by the proceed
ings of the iron masters who met at Pitts
burgh, and by the promise which the
Union says was made by President TaY-
LoR to them, "even in defiance Of the
.disapprobation of the South, to do all that
he could TO relieve the iron interest from
the depressed condition in which it was
represented to be, by recommending adj
ditional protection. :" The "yoIcE OF La
Dor" j, TO be represented by the OPPOSE