New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-21
Labor and Free Trade.

Labor aud Free Trade.
Suppose the Artisans and LsbOrers % New ork
were assembled in general meeting to consider and
rejoice over a new invention or discovery which
promised almost to annihilate time, space and the
expense Of transportation BY means Of tins
grand discovery, sirs, says tile enthusiastic m
veutor, you may ship cargo OF raw hides 70 any
part OF the world you choose. and have them Re-
turned ss leather or boots and shoes within two
months at a cost for transportation OF not more
than one mill on the dollar OF you may slap your
timber, brick, marble. Sc to any port on earth,
and have it returned directly as house. com
pletely furnished from cellar ~ attic ready Ia Sc,
on your lot and move into the next day. Or, yu,
can send Your cash wherever timber brick, mar
Bile, Sc shall be severslly cheapest concentrate
them ali at that point where house building labor
is cheapest put up your house and take It 10 The
points where painting furniture mirrors, &c srt
cheapest respectively, fit yourselves out to the
last bellropc and dustpnn, and bring your house
home to your lol-all at expense for transporta.
ton OF less than tea dollars. Sowith every struc
'ture. ornament, luxury, convenience or oomion
'ycu may lce tit TO require. Is Mt tins most
wonderful aud benehcent invention
Wonderful wonderful respond the gaping
crowd how cheap we shall hereafter have every
thing what comforts aud Injuries we shall en-
Joy We shall now build houses with CHI
nese or Hindoo labor, capable, ingenious aud ssa
enough TO get employment at twenty cents per
'day-and SO with our furniture, clothing, boots
hats, ships. carriages, &c. Sc. The poorest man
among US can have his three story house wei
filed with every convenience and comfort, e'erl
thing will be so abundant aud cheap
But stop says an old carpenter, unaccustom
ed TO swell every shout he hears. and sometimes
addicted TO looking All inch or more beyond the III
Of his nose How are We 10 pug for all these hn'
things l see clearly enough tina, houses and
clothing and furniture and ships ana everything
else are to be cheap beyond precedent "a money
but where shall money be got TO buy them with
You. Mr. lawyer and you. MIR saared officer, and
you Mr. landlord may fancy that you are to bns
at me Hesc 1,rtcss and sell al ne DID, and 81 quad
ripple your incomes by making them procure YOU
tour times as much property Ms they have hitherto
done but even Sosr adv autsge viii IN the nature
OF things be shortlved and ilusive. soon, tees
salaries land rents SC must be graduated to III.
new average OF prices-must because 10 oth,i
enduring result 10 possible Those directly eN
posed az you are not to the novel aud depressils
competition which this invention sets on loot may
be hrst bcggsrcd, but ultimately your incomes
salaries or charges must be brought down IA SEINE
thing like the old proportion to theirs, or the entire
social machinery mus, oome to dead halt. tt
imagine that you, Revenue Officers Tor instance
can hold ON to three dollars por day when men a.
good as YOU are vslnly seeking work at two sml
'hnes day, is 10 deiude yourselves most sbsurdly
But voN workers in Wood, Metal. Cloth Se-
'Bricklsyers, Carpenters, Shoemakers hat'eis,
+Tailors aud the hke-whst can YOU mean 10y han
'ing this new invention as s blessing Nhel
everything shall be procured at dirt cheap prices
from abroad, wha, sort OF wages do you fancy yo'
are to earn at home /! Nay how DO you expect
to earn a living at ell While Traffic Is rsnsSok
ing the four quarters OF the gobe Tor three-stor>
houses 10 cost but live hundred dollars each III
hats at a dollar, 6ne boots at two dollars, am
'eroadelosth coats al FIVE, who viii require yct'
services even at two shlhngs per day Capita
and Enterprise will be all sgog FOR great bargains
or discovering secluded hooks O, earth whors
Boots HATS Coats, Houses may be prccure,l
even cheaper than the great invention has yet
made them The Business class Will be film L
the newspapers aud covering the lamp posts with
flaming ACKNOWLEDGMENT inconceivably chea,
fabrics Just received fresa Sheffield Dresden Csl
.ouus or Timbuctoo-Nso advertise a home msa
article will be 10 iestii, presumption that i, i,
no, quite % cheap CT SO elegant as may be hso
Of men who have swept the round globe in thei,
inquiries and their purchases How in the work
are vsa 10 be profi,ed by this new invention
How eaa IL cheaper the goods yeu want To buy
and not cheaper in al least equal measure u
labor OF its products you must sell Ia i've '-
Where thea. 10 your advantage from this NSontc'
discovery with its chespenins influences How
do you expect u earn yosr bread when every
thing eaten, worn or used In New York can b
purchased elsewhere at such name asurably low
prices
Now we defy the Free Trader to show that II
state OF things we have supposed rs any thing els
than Free Trade carried ~ It's altsmkte OF pr
fiction II We could today buy every thing II
whasever part OF the world il could be had iov III
least money, and bring ii home by wishins II herr
We should be in the very middle Of his Eden, .
matter ut what prices 20 what extent We eo0A
eel. Buy where you can buy cheapes'-ths' i'
tor the least money-snd let every thipS else TAX
care of itself-such 10 the First Commandment Q
Free Trade.
Why 10 il that the truth % this subject is no