The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-17

Now Ar, keep your lands, and what will they net you
for the whole years? Let As before stated
The mel onsy for is49 were Soo3 343 This is
greater Than they will be again, particularly II you
make the las, issue Of bounty land warrants negotiable
But take this amount, and multiply il through the whole
erm and you have but 9,S33 .433 for the satirs pc
ROD, compared to Is 1886 1872 the increase aud saving
OF oas 4sar alone under the measure proposed, and
the additional saving for the time, OF ,523 ,36smakng
an aggregate OF 81 ,s6l $40. s3a
Such would be the comparative results under your
present revenue system but il resort be had to direct
axatoA the revenue advantages 0f this measure 10 the
goyernsaent over the policy OF keeping the lands unpro
aud untaxabe would still be great The extent
not be calculated with certainty bu. may be approxmated
Then assuming that the amount OF land which would
become individual property and subject TO taxation would
be o0iy three times the amount that would become
der your present policy and the amount ten years would
be aboa 900 OF Supp0sng this to be WORTH
settled $40 per acre, ad vaiorem tax OF only mill
to the dollar ten cents the hundred dollars would
yield revenue Of $l.ooO.o00, increasing annually in
amoapl but diminishing in rate and which, added 10 the
expense saved 1886 makes aggregate OF ~ 1885,
l52, u be compared again with 1888 343 only, and that
con,inAally decreasing in amount to the government
Add b all this the nat0nal wealth which would be
creat by the encouragement and impetus gwen to sgr
vansses of the discussing will appear
nealoAlsble. Let item sunice as an example Sup
Pos1Sn one-foash Of ths land have mentioned 10 be
cultivated in wheat in 1861 and to produce but ten bus
els per acre, lit will produce from twenty ry)he
value OF this at 50 cents per bushel would be THREE
HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLIONS OF DoI.LARs And yet
We nave sald nothing OF horses, cale sheep 0eei pOrk
wool. cotton, sugar, ce tobacco hemp. flax. and the
various other products OF labor and agriculture all OF
which constitute vast OF well as o.
individual comfort. M
Perhaps the senator from Michigan begins to perceive
by this time that there sides this view OF the
question Ii not must notice other objection urged
by him. II was this; "that the measure would dePre-
clale property now held by States and individuals" I"
Why, sir. the very opposite would be its effect In the
country. in the city, il is not the price demanded or
paid for lot OF land that increases the value OF that
a6 fha ifs hney
done upon It, Take the land owner in sparse settlement
OF the West; and could you do him greater favor than
10 give the ands about hlm to those who would settle
and improve them !creae necessity for and the means
TO support, schools, roads, mills workshops, and viii
lagos! Or, take the New York and Boston Land Com
pany. whose lands stretch across the State of illinois
and could you benefit them than by settling the
lands about them and hemming in theirs with improved
farms The same may be said OF the school and other
lands OF the States Why, really. sir if had not known
bettcr, should have supposed when the senator was
urging thus objection, that he yet lived in Name, instead
oi Michigan. As il is must think be has lived very
superficial observer The property Of the landhong
State would be increased value through the increased
importance of the and trade Of those States
as before stated To you Of the old States repeat :
You have every nducement TO yield the measure under
consideration Why do y0u-why tcll you withhold il !!
1t be but from other considerations that of po.
ic posoer, and that Of herdng and cro,oding your la
BORING population, UNTIL you CAN FORCE DOWN THE
WAGES or LABOR THE EUROPEAN STANDARD.
In regard TO the frs. of these. again think you
from false premises to conclusions You may
lose relative political power through this measure by pro-
noting the growth OF the West; but this is inevitable,
whatever policy you may pursue for if the West do not
receive your surplus poor and suffering population, it i'll
receive though not so soon full equivalent in numbers
loss of political power BY dninuon OF your present
numbers remember this would equally be the which
class the West might receive But is this possible,
At least probable! Whsn for the period OF time,
hsve you ever given of SO many OF your numbers TO
Iopple the Wesi, since 1s4O And when, for like
od. have you ever increased rapidly in population
sSer The reason y, the natural sichnaAs Of The Wss
10 the o COUNTY, sSfS wsS aRa 9xs:
together with your natural increase more than makes up
your loss and usual increase. ".r lsa
II TO accumulate and crowd surplus labornx popula
lion, until you have driven il TO European want and
misery until you have forced down wages to European
Standard be your motive for Withholding the public do.
main from free settlement you might as well-you had
il, il you love your country tell you
but what you know this never be done under Mis
goyernment-it DE done, and thus republic stand
You must fuse il into tyranny despotsn first
Thank God you have no power here, as IN England, TO
transport men Van Dienans Land for seeking TO OBJ
lain by combn alton pance for their labor sufficient
n aay the cravings of nature Nor dare you do what
osIs Philippe did in 45send the soldiery to work IN
place of the carpenters who had abandoned their em-
ploynent because they could not obtain Tor their labor
ike pittance You know too well the results of this TO
him. .
But ii can hardly be that this is with any
uating motive in his opposition to thus measure IT
would barely seem possible that American could de-
sire 10 see his countrymen rendered wreched 10
be driven TO labor in the mines the forge for fourteen
&c mis- day as in Sweden the aboer is compelled TO do
DR. as in Russia where by the testimony OF Ernan, the
aborer is compelled to tod at the orges or the mines OF
he Ural mountains thirteen and half hours per day.
Tor eight and quarter kopeks, (ess than pemny) il
single but with the addition OF eighty pounds OF rye
meal per month Uhe be Of fdMuy; where the
yearly wages OF labor but four Prusssan dollar
Though this is bitter, cheeress toll TO the aboer, its
fruits are TO the Russian yrant they doubtless
would be 10 the American who might desire similar
state of things home Those fruits that the Rus.
sian is enabled TO manufacture iron TO trans
port it from the Urals in boats three thousand miles TO
St MISUNDERSTANDING the route nine hundred
feet reascendng again ak hundred more to the point oil
to ship thence four Thousand miles 10 our
shores and here, after paying duty oi thirty per cent
to undersell the American master and return with
wealth to evel in Russian luxury. These are the wages
and these the fruits Of that system OF toni which such an
Amercan--if such there be would impose upon gaunt
and houscless poverty May Providence put lar hence
the sunless day. When il shall come-and come IT must
~ things tend-the prophetic words OF the senator
from Kentucky, IMr CLAY,l in his late speech at Lex
ington will have been fulfilled In speaking OF the future,
he says.
"Thc density of the population Of the United states VIII
then great there will be such reduction In the pce
aud value OF labor rende much cheaper to empoy
free siaps labor and slaves becoming burden TO
their owners will be voluntarily disposed Of and allowed TO
90 free" ..s
And we, then, approaching 20 mourniul condi-
ton the affairs of the working classes fes Is too
and surely tci reach II that other coun
hape unless the preventive before IT be too
late But before reach itihough IT may be soon'he
triumph of oppression. accumulated wealth, and hearess
luxury, the struggles OF the destitute Tor TODD and
freedom, will have thrown this republic with its liberty
and glory into the dark receptacle OF things that are no
past Before this fnal triumph poverty and
lvvil hovo afY