Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-20
words ofTruth and Soberness.

The time Is rapidly coming when the Amerl- |
can people will be compelled to look these
things squarely in the face, and act upon them
at the ballot box
viii the farmers, the mechsnies, the work
ing men of Ohio look at these facts and state
ments, and reflect opon them before voting
this fall? Will they give their countenance
and support to the hard money free trade pol
iticians who have so strenuously urged the ne
cessity Of destroying all currency but the ex-
elusive hard? We shall have occasion to talk
much about these matters before the election.
We feel the importance Of them to the well
being of the industrial classes of our common
country.
Z The Ledger Caught at Last
hss Working men read and reflect!
e We have always looked upon the Philadel-
pAla Ledger as one of the greatest enemies
the working man had 10 contend against
Its specious but ansound articles against the
Protection Of American Industry, written fire.
quently with ability, but very fimsy in argu-
ment. are well calculated to deceive the unre-
Aecting, but like james Buchanan and his
friend Col Bigler, they have left the cat o ut
Of the bag in their train of argument and
they now stand exposed in their true colors
In-Feply 10 our recent article on protection,
they make use Of the following stGrtliag Ian
5lsage. 1t openly advocates the Buchanan
doctrine of ten cents day in language that
cannot be misunderstood. Here it is, we
quote it word for word
s'Panic has followed panic-revulsion has
succeeded Eevulsion-spasms have shocked
the trade-credit has been convulsed-and
tha whole social fabric has often tottered on
brink of anarchy-and still the dalusion of pa
per money has been clung to as blessing, be-
cause It enhances prices Of everything: these
hiqA prices cripple industry, by allowing the
cheap labor of foreign lands to supply US with
every species of manufactured goods, We
treat the evil that palsies our own industry,
and then cry out for more Of the same evil
and tax of our neighbor, TO make up what
loss we may sustain by paper IF Que thou
suad dollars will be required per diem, on the
paper system, to pay the wages of factory
that could be worked for one hundred dollars
on the specie pkas-and that difference is
caused by the highest prices engendered by
excessive issues of paper money-which
breaks down the faCtory-who is to blame
the country, the government or the paper
money ="
u says abolish paper money, or curtail it tc
The actual specie basis, and one hundred dot
/. lars will pay the wages of factory per diem
shatou the present plan il requires one thou
sand dollars. Fhe position that the Ledger
takes is cOTrect.- abolish Protection to Amer
lean Industry and reduce the paper currency
TO the specie plan, THAT is one dollar of specie
for every paper dollar issued,) and the manu-
facturef or coal operator can pay wages will
one hundred dollars, that now requires on,
lsousand dollars to pay. But working men
are you willing to have your wages thus re
doced That's the question. But then they
will tell you, Why, it makes no difference L
you--eEerything else will come down in the
same proportion, and you can buy Just a
much Atthe low rate of wages then, as yor
can now-eyeFything is inflated by Pape
money, and protection keeps the price of wha
you consume high This is their argument
Now letns examine and see how this vii
work in practice.
In. the FIRST place -four and provisions are t
avery slight extent the product of labor-thei
production depends, in q great measure, upol
the soil and the seasons-labor MAJ
come down 10 10 or 20 cents per day, and
failure in the crop may raise -four up TO S1t
per barrel, but labor does not go upwith it,
Tea and coffee We import from abroad-thi
is the product of the soil also. and our lowla
Dor does not effect the prices. Drugs AM
Medicines are also principally obtained fror
abroad, and prices are not effected, they woul
remain the same whether our labor is high O
low. So with many other articles. Som
clothing would be effected in price by low la
Dor at home, and few other articles, but q
least three fourths ofthe articles that enter in
70 the consumption Of the laborer would not b
cheapened in price Farm labor now aver
ages only from Sc to $40 month and foun
inpFotisions
"A laboring man. with the present currency
and some protection, receives one dollar day
which for 800 working days. gives him 500
Deduct the duty off of one-fourth of what h
consumes. say 40 per cent the average of th
Tariff Of 1912. which the Ladger says the Ii
borer is taxed BY protection, for argumer
sake only, but which we deny. making S3t
Leaving for the laborer $27O. Now abar
don protection and reduce the currency
the specie plan. and labor will go down to 2
on so cents day. say 25 cents (the Ledge
goes down TO ten cents, and it gives him fc
900 DAYS $75. Now add what the Ledge
says be would be taxed by protection and Ii
present currency $50, and it gives per ye.
4l05. Still showing loss of Sl65 per al
mum to the laboring man, (which is is mol
than half his capital, by adopting the Ledge
plan.ss
Working men, srGnaise into this subject,
isofVdst Importance to yoW.
Bat. then, the Ledger processes to be
great friend to the working classes, and a
ways ysiadvocstes their interes.s-why Woul
they do so? asks one. simply because it
their interest to advocate these doctrines; the
are rich-loge money BY all rich men, and ca
save from 2Oto $4,000 pei annum, if the
could persuade the people to adopt their plan
as the following will show:
The Ledger. according 70 their stasemen
consumes annually 81 800 reams Of paper
Ifthis quantity Of paper should be cheapene
fifty cents ream by reducing the price ofl'
labor, they weuld save on the $1,000 rean
$4,000. Reduction on the labor of the