New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-27
To General Walbridge,

Nominee Of he Democratic" Parry for Congress IN
tie ma Congressional District.
SIR: AT the meeting in the Eighth Ward ON
Friday evening, took the liberty, in answer
to your frequent invitations so to do, to ask
you question bearing on "a principle of vital
interest TO American Laborers. This principle
you had announced in your speech. To use
your own words, you said, lam in farOr Of
Juying ,rhere IRE can buy cheapest" Ny ques-
ton was, substantially:
If you buy English hat French pair of boots
for q So and your elowcitZens of the Eighth Ward
cannot afford them at lees than s. riH you buy the Eng
lisa sSS FreAeh hats and to0tsS In other word Are
you IN favor Of buying foreign articles in preference TO
thOee made by your ellowcitizens who vote for YOU
and who are pay the taxes TO support youn Congress
at eight dollars dsyi'
You replied that,
five can buy English hats and boots AZ 81 80 and
American worknen cannot afford them NJ less than s.
Why if we send our wheat 20 England and get rwo
DOLLARS BUsHEL for it, We ought TO do So"
Neither the time, nor the proprietes of the
OCCASION as it was a partizan meeting, allowed
me TO urge the matter further, and now ask
you, for the information of the workingmen of
your District TO answer the following question,
OF questions:
Are you in favor of destroying or depreciating the
Home market for American Workingmen. by irnport
ing foreign articles because can get them little
cheaper And then, when your fellow citizens have
only transient employment snd reduced wages in con.
sequence of foreign competition are you in favor of
seeing them pay Two DOLLARS BUsHEr FOR WagAr
to give their Children bread
pair Of boots hat side Of sole leather the paner
upon which ballots printed for Members of Con.
gress yard OF cloth, and tun Of iron simply mply
the LABOR OF workingmen which hss been expended
IN their production About s5 per cent of the cost of
tun OF Manufactured iron is the price paid forthe La
soR or TIE NOTTINGHAM Now az you are in fsyoy
OF buying where you can buy the cheapest" YOU are
In favOr OF buying FOREIGN because tits chean
er than the LABOR OF your feowcitizens AZ Won are
therefore, the advocate Of cheap foreign commoditas
which are only the days and nights LABOR of orking
men and women, In tangible and commercial firm
the LABOR OF your fellow citizens must inevitably fall
to the same cheap standard they will be underoldn and
driven cut OF their own mar@et. LABOR is the only
commodity which the workingman has to Offer snd If
thar at low value, himself and his family mus, spf
fer.
But you say n we can get Two DOLLARS . Rr-zrrv,
for wheat WI you please INFORM the workers of vor,
District EksR wheat ruled at two dollar,l WIN vor
also tell them OF the tens Of thousands of laborer h
stood idle for month after month without money %
buy bread with, when wheat two dollars busbel,
Low wages Tor Labor and nigh prices for Brad a.
urdesstnnd Il, DO not turn out for the ADVANTAGE of
working men VIII you be kind enough To tell the boo,
makers Laimakers Iron-workers storekeene-s mo.
ohhncs, and working men Of the With Ward whoa
they are 10 get the money TO pay TRIO docy. n
wheat when the Democratic Members OF Congress
they vo;s for are buying the cheap labor of Europe IN
preference to that of the men whose SURFACES have
placed them in their Office WIN you also inform them
how soon the happy time viii come when they shall
again be forced to pay trO dollars bHsse for sAca,
Once more. Wsile the lSborers, srtizans, and me.