New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-14
Free Trade and Labor i'm England
Our sometime correspondent wv. Ii. f.


writes to the Public Ledger as follows:
speaking of the rebuke administered to oir ID.
Bulwer by Senator Cooper, the L0HdoH nur ',a'.s
Chronicle says: The former seems 70 nav - pr,
duced very much less effect than might nave oeeh
exnected from the amazing ignorance oil puoilc "a"
Which had led the American people lhto many ao'
.nrdt;es md their rulers ~ into lew serious mis-
49, Tbe defenders Of Sir H. Bulwer IN the
Senate failed TO cite parallel cases MI Cass'
,yhan in France, wanted the ,ooO per cent on
American Tobacco modihed, Gsc az. o,,aot %
t.astau Legislation. Mr.. Bulwers country admits
Idea produce because special and chronic
fan;ne hurled the Protectionsts fer the time into
mir of difficulty. That Free Trade has failed in
England is because the absence OF II Is smau
nert of the restrictions which beggar England
While the Land is monopolized, while the Press IS
sbackled Free Discussion forbidden by an armed
police. while the People are without representa-
ton, while the Colonial policy is retained, Free
Trade with England has only tended TO involve US
without benefting England. 1t multiplies her
spectators and diminishes her producers; throws
vet more people into her overcrowded towns, ans
complexities difficulties An English paper before
me states The truth is that every day leads fur
'ther and further to the conviction that the Man
chester school have completely outwitted them
selves in the results they expected from the Free
Trade measures the falling off in the demand for
manufactured goodsin the home market far exceed
ing the utmost limit of their calculations Ii is
stated in the last London papers that the price
given for making and preparing ladies' shoes IS
Sd. (l6 cents pair
"Agricultural laborers in some places have struck
because they get only Is, 81 so, week, finding
themselves This index of the vast suffering In
England has reused many phianthrophic people
TO the desire of introducing association, according
10 the French doctrine. 1t forces too, Sir II. Bull
wer to indulge in the mockery OF asking US to
shape our policy in order to save class interests
TO enable England, by our means, to pay big saa-
ries like his own. These last are now menaced IN
England Lord John Russell and Mr.. DIsraeli
have reduction projects for such salaries-both
equally nsincere, remarks the Chronicle. The
Britannia says of free trade in England, the tide
of public opinion is evidently turning-with
cheap bread and all the other commodities of life
cheap, the masses Of the people have at the pre-
sent moment far less easy access TO them than
than they had when prices were high; competi-
ton has made labor cheaper in degree than 1t
has cheapened commodities. The Chronicle,
hardly voluntary witness, we should fancy 10
such facts offered in its columns, not long since,
evidence so cogent and striking on the condition OF
labor in the metropolis that the National Asso-
citation have caused ample abstracts TO be pub
lished in pamphlet entitled 1.-THE Blessings of
Cheapness." Pictures more narrowing than the Ia
bored scenes of fiction were painted by those poor
fellows to the Chronicles Commissioners, and by
them presented to the public Starvation, disease,
misery, moral and physical, icorse d1an usually
resulting from crime, rere Trored 10 be me com
mon lot of honest, industrious and skilled hdRdi-
craftsmen"