New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-23
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1859.

acriCulurtl lahorpr for employment on the farm Ms
filed with females and the demand for cloths in
creased while the competition for employment in the
making Of shirts and coats diminished. Wages rose
ard they rose in every department Of labor; the eV'
6ence Of which Is be found in the fact that the con-
tuupon Of food and fuel greatly increased while that
Of cloth almost doubled. and that Of iron trebed
How indeed, could it be otherwise than that the re-
wsrd Of labor should risei The cotton Manufacturer
needed sbOrer male and female. and did his neigh
bor Of the wooen mill; and the lAborers they EN-
Iloyed could buy shoes and hss The iron masters and
the coal miners needed w,rkmen and the men they
employed needed cotton and wooden cloths; and they
could consume more largely Of food. The farmers
markets tended to improve, and he could buy more
largely Of hats and shoes plows and harrows and the
httmskers and shoemGkers and the makers of piows
sne harrows, needed more hands and therefore cspi-
tai rds sryrhere looking labor where before labor
had been looking for capital The value Of cottons and
wooens. and iron produced In 1916 compared with
thet Of le42 greater by hundred millions OF dol
lsrs and all this went TO the payment ofabor for all the
profits Of the iron and Of the cotton and wooden
manufacturer the building of mills and fur.
nsces or to the enlargement Of the old unhbp-
ply, however for U.s. legislators smitten with
love Of British free trads. They Of opinion that
were by right agricultural nation and that
d
petition for the purchase of labor to resolve the
whole nation into body of farmers and the tariff of
ls42 repealed
/ six years have since elapsed and we now produce
less iron BY about 1000 tun and there is therefore
less demand for labor the of the whole value
Of that iron which estisted in the form in which Is
used,-nail- stoves, plows and seam-enginee, from
thirty forty millions of dollars In the same time we
have largely diminished the production of wooden and
Gotten cloth and variety Of other articles. the manu-
faciure of which grew up under the tariff OF 1884, and
the reduction in the demand for labor in these pursuits
may be set down at not less than twenty millions OF dol
| lars We have ceesed TO build mills and furnaces and
have also ceased to open mines; and thus in every
quarter there dimini he'd competition for the pur
chase CT labor whercas should largely have increased
aid would have increased had the tariff Of 1919 been
maintained While i, existed added least hun
dred millions annual payments for labor IN very
| few departments Of employment to say nothing of
thous snd others; and we should since have added
hundred and fifty millions to the amount where's. it is
nCw iar ess than six years since and competition
fer the purchase of labor dinshes from day TO day
How indeed, could any other result have been antici
| retedi Every workman, whether lsborer mechanic
Knows Ierecty well that he cannot have higher wages
than his neighbor Of equal strength and ability, Is
willing TO receive The shoemaker that should give
dollar fer the making OF pair of shoes that his neigh
bors were accustomed to have made for fifty cents,
would all journeymen shoemakers know, BIO ruined,
ana therefore il that when they desire have rise
OF wages they combine together and endeavor to pre-
vent any Of themselves from working below 3 fixed
rate and this Is well known to hatters and taors
roper makers md printers, as it Is to shoerneSers
Equally true is regards the people who manuac
ture iron. cotton and wooden cloths If they pay
/ stohs.t tb.tia
| in accordance with those wages, they must stop;
end if they are compelled compete with the men
abroad who have their work performed a. low
wages they mutt either pay out less TO their men,
they uut al andon the business, and has been aban
dcIed Everywhere throughout the country mills aud
furnaces have been first closed and then sold by the
sheriff In two counties of Pennsylvania, Armstrong
srd ClsIicn forty out Of Artytro furnaces haze been
eOsed and neary Hof them haze been sold By tbs sheriff
End tie people no worked In them have become
peors for the sale OF their labor in other empoymens
In Essex County. New York. nearly all the furnaces and
forges have been closed, and great numbers OF men
have been driven out to compete with men that raised
food made roads or hats shoes and all the young
men who arrive OF maturity forced to do the
same, with constant tendency to swamp those who
were before engaged In producing food, shoes hats or
! ccGts Ito great iron establishment at BoontOn has
been sold Iy the sheriff, after having paid out three
millions in wages TO people who mus, also resort to
other OF employment. The enormous carpet
frctoiy at Thompscnvie, with it, millions Of capital
has been ruined because 1t could pay high wages
and mi etc with who had their carpets nsnuac
tuIed ct low ones. The great print works Of Fall
River have teen cced and their propretors have been
ruined; ard such hes been the with cotton and
wooden mills, rolling mills ard hundreds OF smaller
establishments of vsrous knds, from enc extremity Of
tie country the other and the effect of this il every
eas has teen to drive numbers Of persons, male
ard iC male to seek subsistence in other cmpoy
thps intassg ery,cere t competition for tAs sale Of
lator with tendency reduction in lie price That this
tendency results inevitably from the closing of any
brtrch Of employment, must be obvious to ill our
readers Now the object Of the whole British system
IL that Of producing oheepness OF labor and tho mcde
il which that is to be accomplished to destroy every
where competition for it, purchase.
IRE London Tunes informs its readers that s great
rors Of BrGin Spendo edp labor The less the COM
petite here for the purchase lsbor the lower must be
wages tie smaller be the domestic CONSUL pton OF
o.d the greater be the surplus for export and the
lower HUss be TIE prices at which Britain will be sup
| Tlicd. So too with cotton The manufacturers OF
lndia have been ruined and the whole people have been
driven to seek employment in the work OF cultivation
the consequence OF which is that cotton yields the pro-
duc,r less than penny per pound and his wages are
le-s than doer per month. Our manufactures are
broken up snd s Of people are driven into asricui
,ure that they may compete with Inda for the sale Of
their products in the market Of England and the effect
CT tlis in TIE fact that the cotton which usedto
sell twelve eighteen cents per pound now sells at
from six to twelve and with the large crop Of the
present may ard perhaps WILL see lower prices
than any yet known Its sought dus to produce every
where competition for The sole IN EnsiaHd cfe products
Of The labor Of other eOuHes and the eaec. of this Is
seen in tie deeucticn Of the value Of the labor OF the
people Of the rest Of the world
The object OF the whole system Il that of underworld
ING tie world md irs effects are seen In the ruin Of all