New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-08
place. The various meetings stree held ofwort-
,,en ont OF employ, are the most significant ev-


men out Of employ are the mo.t significant en-
6epce. Of the real extent Of the evil under which
tie productive industry Of socicty i' now lso)r-
ine. The proceedings Of such sssem olsges have
been r,riously c, nuented upo1. AID Te think IN
the nain urju,tly by tie daily press. Tie
vorLnen there showed the spirit Of indepeuteace
which uuderie. freedom and the conquest Of msn
over dificuties snd besides. they ,ought spPs
reutly 10 root out the causes Of their Difficulties
and find radical cure. We DO ro'
blame men who. in the anguish OF finding
Themselves VI .bout work and p,r,ded as the re-
cipient. of charity. speak .sh 8 fiery disiiin OF
ain, though generously offered or bestowed.
RIGHTS. not Aims should he the motto Of
men Of vslor Ind honesty. But in their
discussion they overlooked the Immediate c,1ss
Of their disuesses; we say overlooked because We
find but one ,lsp-dssh Guuson to the subject
upop the part Of q workmln. This philosopher
attributed the sctual want Of the wOrkmen 70 the
tue caun-Britiih Free Trade snd the absence
Of Maine Law But the workmeD probably
nineteen out Of twenty. TO speak moderately had
voted for that Polk, Walker Free Trade bill OF
v, W
cr.t,, who literally buy and sell skillfR me-
chancs" See oil the Southern Slave adyer-
tisements In that hideOHs conjunction with
Slsve-driving and Free Traders, the workmen oil
the North paved the way to their ruin. so lHE
TRIBUNE told them in $50, and so it has told
Them ever since. notwithstanding the California
stop yep to the drain Of gold aud wealth But
I oh
as we have uniformly advocated ttem-obscnre
the immediate rause of their want OF work-the
Brtish Free-Trade Tariff OF l-l6 And Their
misery is completed by their failure to vote a.
OF e nan in favor Of the Maine Law and against
the meaDest sort of 'aristocracy, that Of soddy
dispensing vulgarians. who sopup tae better por-
ton Of The wages OF the wOrkmen, While running
their health and destroying their happiness.
The late meetings Of workmen in the Park
and elsewhere will result in nothing if they con.
fine their objects Of reformation to Homestead
questions. Something besides hOmesteads il
wanting 1t is necessary that the colossal cOmpe-
ttion Of Great Britain should be checked and that
her monoposts in cloth and iron should not be
able to break down our manufactures, with the
concurrence Of tlave-dryers aud their dupes the
Norther mechanic specially the Irish and Ger
maDs-leayrg us in a state Of colonial va'salsge,
ard subject to periodical crises, which rack soci-
ery 10 ito center and degrade the industry Of the
country into o whining or defiant recipient Of
charity The esebt state Of things is as caltn-
itlus as it is dishonorable The shame of this
sO-called democratic country in being reduced 70
The bowling psuperdom Of the monarchy and oil
garchy ridden masses OF Europe, is egreglous be
yOnd description. 1t shows that our democracy
is, in plain English, lie. five cannot assure to
the people constant employment and good wagec,
then our system of government is a deusion.
Ard it does not DO so; and a. il is admins
tered it is delu,ion. Ii is not democratic
Government but Icg,o-driyiDg olgarchy OF
uneer-e6ucatcd men. Mr. Calhoun boosted that
he never visited the northern States since be quit
college nor saw their cities, arts and industries
Mr.. McDufie called the lsboriDg population,
"bleacbed or black a dangerous element; but
our mechanics could not be kicked cut Of de-
grading alliance with these under-eiu csted south
ern oiearcbs AMI voted tber own ruin in l-iG
They voted their measureless disgrace in lo5p
and they got their wages of sin 10 1871, ami are
now bowling in desOlatlon.
The mechanics Of thi. Ciiy must reaec. on this
sutiect if they need reform. Heaven knows they
DO: 10000 persons in one ward without work or
food 1000 women ia this City alone without
work The trades have variously dismissed one
third or one. half or twoth thirds of their workmen
What & condition for country great prosper
Gus and free