New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-29
To General Walbridgc,
NOMINEE Of the democratic PartyJo Congress il ts'
III ConRressioHh Dis.ria:

To General Haibridge,
Nominee Of the democratic Party for Congress il ne
lid CongressioHsi District:
SIR In the short letter addressed 10 you
On Wednesday, through the columns of The Ner-
York Tribune, / requested you to favor your
constituents with answers to several questions
which are of some practical moment to them.
While you are preparing your answers, If not
too late, you viii please consider also the fol-
lowing thoughts:
You said in your Eighth Ward Speech that
"If we can send our Wheat to England and get
two dollars bushel for it, We had better do So"
Possibly it might be for our advantage, yet do
not perceive where the advantage lies for dear bread
in England would only make dear bread here under
the operation of commercial laws Either bread must
be high in this country well in England, will
be low you find it benefit for the wheat grower to
get high prices for bread in England laws oftradeev
ell will make it high here and thus the laborer midtown
man will be taxed high prices for the wheatgrower and
landholder. But if the contrary, you turn about
and tell your constituents that bread will be low well
az labor you simply deprecste the value of the labor
capital of the workers Of this country and the value Of
oil its other capital the precise amount Of the foreign
labor imported.
For convenience of illustration, viii say that
pair Of boots hat represents days work of the
working man cloth coat represents ten days work
atom of iron twenty-five days work. And so of cutie
~, glassware, calico carpets oil-clcth, jewelry,
or anything else. From the moment when the
spade first strikes the ground until the or the pro-
duct has passed through all ira various anipulatons,
and out finished article, the process has been
that of adding the labor of to the labor of
another who has preceded him pair of boots repre-
sents the labor Of the bootmaker the and cur
rier the drover the stock grower, and the farmer who
produced the grain upon which the animals fed
Thus the process has been of adding labor and skill
to that which has preceded until the finished fabric ia
ready for market Now as one thousand tons of iron
may represent twenty-five thousand days porks of
workngmen, and thousand yards of cloth will repre-.
sent three four thousand days works of the aborer
is clear that the holds good of all other fabrics
and products whatsoever Hence, it is just clear
thstwhen thousand tons Of iron imported yards
of CLOTH pairs of boots suits of clothes dozens
of cutlery packages of screws, just many thou
sand days works of foreign laborers imported
enter into competition with and undersell in our own
market the same number of days porks of American
workers.
Now, you know that the only alleged reason why you
advocate free trade by which is meant low rate of
duty sufficient for revenue, is this We buy these
articles cheaper in Europe. deny as general thing
the truth Of the assumption that we buy cheaper.
We may for short time, but in the long we pay
dearer) Now cheap products simply mean cheap days
xorks Of the porking-men chO produce them. One man
may build house for ten thousand dollars, and another
a similar one for eight What is the cause Of the diff
ferencei Cheap days porks Of tie Iabor1 So OF
everything else. Hence the plain, unyarnshed English
OF your policy is ths-YoV are in faror Of importing
the cheap days r0ks Of foreign labOrers aud letting your
opn eountrymen go Alleging for pork unless they oil
sell their days toorks just as cheap
But the Democracy of your policy 10 to be admired
In an eminent degree You refuse TO buy the labor Of
your own constituents who honor you by their votes
and are in favor Of sending your money to workers
three thousand miles distant, who take our money out
of the country who bear no part of the responsibility
and pay no part Of the taxes to support our Govern
ment And harin9 refused TO buy american labor, son
tar The days rOrks of american abOrers support you in
Congress, in such Anti Democratic legislation.
But you proceed on the assumption that England viii
be valuable market for American breadstus and field
products But if British Free Trade is good for Us it
is good for Russia, Austria, Switzerland Germany,
France Belgium and Spain. England can manufacture
cheaper than they hence, according to your posi-
tion they should all buy manufactured articles from
England and all sell their feldstapes in her market
VIII you tell us what will be the inevitable conse
quencei All the wheat-growers OF the world Will be
seeking market in London, and hence the price OF
wheat instead Of being roo dollars bushei, will TALL
lower than is the present time while the world
wide demand for manufactures will enable the only
manufacturing country in the world to MoNoPoLrzE the
market 0tker prices Thus has been repeatedly
the case we shall labor under the opposite disaster oil
selling cheap bread and buying dear fabrics because all
our manufacturing and fabrcatng industry has been
DESTROYED BY Democratic members of Congress, who
send bullion to England rather than keep /, In circuls
ton among their constituents.
VIII you also inform your constituents how many
bushels of wheat send to England in year, II
would probably be encouragement to them to elect
you-to stay at home.
One word further VIII you inform your lrish
Democratic" constituents how many Of their fellow
countrymen died under British Free Trade in Ireland
with wheat at rcO dollars a bHSkSl between 1912 and
1877 and also how you will congratulate them
upon the fact that their friends in the Emerald Isle are
furnishing for wheat at starvation prices
WIN you also be good TO let us know when John
Bull intends give Brother Jonathan the monopoly OF
the English bread market and also, how soon we shall
sgain catch him paying the Improbable price oil ro
dollars bHshsl for phedt Should the time be not 100
far distant, and felt disposed 10 speculate on the
wretchedness ofothers, night buy up few thousands
ofbushes TO take advantage of the rise in prices.
Yours, very respectfully, WIN. GLAND BouHNE.