New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-19

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which he averred that the time had come
for the laboriDg class to unite as one man
and so exercise their political rights as to
secure their own interests as well rs the
advantage Of the whole country. The
hboriDg classes in every land form the
substance ofall that people possesses, since
all is created by their industrious hands.
Notwithstanding this, however, the work
ing men in our glorious Republic languish
and pine under the incubus of domestic
and foreign spectators and this evil is
only to be removed by suitable protective
tariff. No country can retain continuous
prosperity in which domestic labor is neg
lected, nor can its free institutions be
properly maintained. Hence it is the duty
Of the laboring classes, by uniting for the
exercise of their political rights, TO pre-
serve and defend their interests by all the
means in their power.
Mr. We'll followed and spoke eloquently
of the protection of labor in general. In
his opinion an American protective tariff
was by no mems the sword to cut the knot
which binds the American laboring classes.
The people of all lands must first be free
and all Natiofalities be melted into one
universal brotherhood; then only can the
pressure upon the mechanical and physi-
cal, as we'll as the intellectual laborer be
removed, and universal well-being take
its place. The address of this speaker
appeared, however, from the too general
nature of his views upon the question of
domestic industry, not to receive the ap-
probation Of the majority of the numerous
assembly, though in several points he was
heard with applause.
Mr. Lauterbach rose and made long
speech, passage of which, upon the i'm
portation of articles of foreign labor and
foreign labOrers, called out Mr.. Dieff'en-
bach again, who declared that the impor-
tation of foreign manufactures was in every
respect to the injury of the country, while
immigration is and will forever be bless
ing to it.
Mr.. J. D0rr followed, and, in a speech
of great power, exhibited the advantages
of high tariff to American laborers and
manufacturers. His remarks were re-
ceived with the greatest applause by the
assembled multitude.
Mr.. Faber spoke with great warmth in
favor of higher tariff declaring that the
manufacturer and operative must always
go hand in hand, and that, in the present
position of affairs, the one equally with the
other must suffer in his interests, through
the present excessive importations, be-
cause no capitalist can with safety expose
his means to the chances Of ,nanufactur-
ing; for if to-day he begins the manufac-
tre of any particular article, tomorrow
perhaps he will be crowded out of the
market by the cheapness of that article inn
ported from abroad, and thus the manufac-
turer loses his capital and the operative
10 nnrninos.
Mr.. Mahlke decmeu IA .e-..,,--,, 20
great earnestness, that the workingmen in
this land have no right to complain if their
rights are not respected; for the laboring
classes compose large majority of our
citizens, and it is in their power by univer-
sally uniting to call such public measures
into existence as they may judge best for
their interests. But until the mass of citi-
zens have learned to elect only honorable
and capable men to our halls of legislation,
and so long as the masses allow themselves
to be held in leading strings by corrupt law
giyers and hypocritical teachers, instead of
advancing, we shall only go backward. The
best and only means is, that the working
men stand forth for their rights shoulder
TO shoulder, at every opportunity, in order
at length to set limit to political and fnan-
cial humbug. If only 10000 workingmen
in Philadelphia would unite in striving for
Il law in their favor, this would not only be
heavy weight in the scale at elections,
but would spur up all the laboring men and
operatives in the entire Union.
We hail this demonstration with pleas
ure and cordial hope; it affords another
and striking indication that our fellow
citizens of German origin are emancipat-
ing themselves from the shackles of the
sham democracy, and asserting the right of
acting and thinking for themselves.