Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
The Tariff Superseded.


The emigration from Ennla3d to Australia, by
raising the price OF labor there promises TO work
an entire revolution in the relative condition "
NJ nufacturrrs IN that country and the United
States. With all our TARIFF, have tound IL
very difficult to compete with England in manu-
featuring, because her labor cost SO much less
than ours. But the emigration to Australia has
suddenly raised the price Of labor to degree
that the unexpected event promises to be better
for us than all the tariffs ever enacted. 1t is one
Of the most remarkable occurrences Of the dav,
and all our manufactures, especially that of iron,
are receiving underltan unprecedented impulse.
These remarks are eucdatod by the following
extract from the London Times. and the com
ments of thu Boston Journal: En-.
"Only one question of tficnlty occurs to us
in the contemplation. Our doubt is novel
one though justified by the very communication
which we have quoted. 1t relates to supply
OF labor. That begins to be the weak point of
all British enterprise. In every department of
Industry thus want has been felt this wear tn a
degree hitherto unknown and inconcevable.
uG LhuCHiC nave always IeH
easy on this pont, because, even if agricultural
laborers 90 longer poard III, Ireland was there
with never-a,hng supply. But all ireland is
gong 10 America. and all England seems bent
on going to Australia The emigration from
these islands last year was hbon $50 co. aud
this yeaI we must add the 100000, who will
most probably have gone to the gold fields of
the Southern Hemisphere. Ii the horse power
4 n q ,iDa I
idle for want Of human fingers, what chance is
there OF more men FROM England or from Ireland
next year, much less the year after? The pros
pect so far threatens wors4 year by year. The
danger Ia too novel to be appreciated. for we
have long been accustomed to look on a redund
ant population pauperlsD, labor rates. road work,
and the rest, as part and parcel of British Con
stlluton, and iiseparsbIe from the soil of hi
country. How yer, there have been great So
cal revolutions ere this, we are on the eve of n
very grea one. in the extraordinary decrease
aud enhancement Of labor" -LonttoR Times
Work for hsIt starved padpers. higher wages
for the labNer, and lower proi's by the nll,lon
are. fewer overgrownrstates, and by conseouaD
ces lever wo khonses and fever tithes viii ba,dlv
be regarded. on Tits SIDE d the watee, as very
seTlons mlsfnrlnnes, although they alarm the
Tunes tor the Prosperity of England.
The discoveries Of gold have gwen new
s'lnlnlons to the flight ut the redundant popu
aio." ct England. As tho supp of lahorers
dnnshes the price OF labor Will rise. and
BON those who come aud thnse who stay of the
laboIng Glasses, are hrnf'ed by it. Here, and
IN Ans'ralIa, there Is pay Tor all who viii work
and work tor all who viii take it; and what was
the weakness OF the Old country becomes the
strength Of the New. The presence of such
Inducements to elDlgrauon here acts like polIi-
zeal balance wheel upon HE one side wol uuos
OF HE British ~ stem OF enormous ACCOMMODATIONS
o' chpi'a', AS the wages given to the wotkmen
rist the price Of the manufactures must rise in
que propo'lon, aud as they rise, 1t frees orr man
fractures from 'nIDous competition and NAV in
so'ne sort. serve the ends OF Prot, ctiop. If The
SOCIAL revouton" dreaded bv the Tunes IL
,eeny at 'ahd there u niore reason TO ,ei,,r4
man be sorry f"r it, Eve Journal.