The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-05-14

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a The editors Of ihe Tribune & sClipperiIin
aliuaing 70 nay.last sr,itle, seem TO insinuats
thar they have no evidence beyond my word
rihe truth Of my fgsrs; and theEfar-
ther sta te that it samatier ahey know moth
ing about ind what il con have todo' With
Arguments Tor Or against q tariff. they cans
not ,conceise, Now, II the editors of that
paper had brains capacious enouglto con;
tainltwo ideas at once, even one idea ps|
large as a grain of mus tafd seed, they could
see at glance that the treatment of lpborers|
at a furnace had great deulsto do with ar;
.guments for or against tariff. h Z. .at
Its well known fact that where one
branch of business in country is much
more Profitable than others, whether
brought about by Legislation or otherwise,
that capital vii. flow into that business, ard
in new-country like ours where capital Isl
scarce, it must have the effect TO retard or
entirely stop all other kinds of business un-
Ill that favored branch is brought 10 the COM
mon level NOW, labor has to follow capital,
let it 60 where il will TO seek employ, and
if one particular branch Of business is able
to monopolize all the capital, and conse-
quently the labor of the country, labor has
to submit to much more degrading and ty-
rannical terms than it would if capital were
distributed equally throughout al! branches
Of business. a .r..
What was it, l ask gentlemen Of the Tri-
bune & Clipper, that raised laborers wages
about iron works from scrip and all sorts of
trade, to cash, but the repeal Of the tariff Of
1912. and substituting the tariff of 1867
1t was leaving all branches Of business upon
an equal footing that caused the general
prosperity Of the country, and caused towns
and villages tospring up all over the coun-
try, railroads TO be constructed. commerce to
receivea new impetus and laborers 10 find
ready employ al any and every kind Of la
Dor all over the country, without being COM
PEELED to submit to the terms of any set Of
monopolizers. This is what the treatment
of laborers at furnace has to do with argu-
ments for or against tariff. Does light be-
| gin to break into your benighted and clouded
imaginations, or will it require more words
to prove self evident fact before you will
understand il?
| Again you say, If hands are charged too
high for goods, let them do as other people
are doing--trade elsewhere; and if not priv
ileged to do so. they are not bound to work
for their employers no more than Bob is
bound TO work for men who will not paya'
he desires. This is privilege we all enjo.
in this country" Exactly, and it is to con
inue these privileges that ] write these ar
licles. say leave capital free TO seek it
own investment and the probability is tha
every branch of business will be equal,
prosperous, and laborers will have chance
to select any kind of work that may be bes
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:, Inc capilai OF 'he country were arlVen i'i'
. that business, as il would undoubtedly b
}, under your system Of protection. lnstea
J. Of publishing a dailv naner in thriving cit
% IL ,o,' ,o,,la have n en,;arat
: or On and work AZ A furnace Yourselves, al,
p then Won would have better evidence tha
A. nv ~ word of The tun.h Of NV figures with r,
~ ,r;o.s
saio " 'ne" pi,es'
~ by the way, wish you would uhaer'aH
. % prove my statements and figures ialse,
o. vou have anv doubts as to their truth, ar
D. ~ - ' ~ sl.hlu a.a ,h.4 ,ho ,,,Q
h, 'neh lou "ou'a p'oVaV Wv ~
q. had not half been told. No, gentlemel
YOU dare not attempt il. And il you are
VI ;ono,.n, Of thsse tbngs as Won nrete nd
or sN',a"' y s,N.s, '"1' 30 = e.;.a,. ~. :,
ofl he, assure YOU that 1OuI lElCuuo tluC III