Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-09-25

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one hundred dollars. x 4 would
to heaven that l could arouse the atteatio,
of erery manufacturer Of tile nation to his
subject.
What is the reason that with all those
advantages and with the protective duties
which our laws afford to the domestic man
facture of cotton, we cannot obtain exclu-
sive possession of the home market, and
successfully contend for the markets Of the
world? 1t is simply because we manu-
facture at the nominal prices of our own in-
flated currency, and are compelled to sell
at the real prices of other nations. RE
DUCE OURNOMINAL TO THE REAL
STANDARD PRICES THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD, AND YOU COVER
OUR COUNTRY WITH BLESSINGS
AND BENEFITS.
-
The comparative LOW PRICES of
France and Germany have offered such
astimulus TO their manufactures that they
are now rapidly extending themselves, and
would obtain possession, in no small de-
gree, even of the English home market,
if 1t pere not for their protecting duties"
LABOR is the chief element of cost in
manufacturing, from the making of watch
springs up to locomotives. The price of
raw meterial is Of small comparative con-
sequence.
The next day Mr.. Mcrrick, of Maryland,
made searching exhibit of the rmnous
Influence upon the working men of the
limited States of the adoption Of the pol
lev which Mr.. Buchanan had so strongly
urged. In the course of his speech Mr..
Merrick said:
'tMr. President, as it has been argued in
support of this bill that one of the good
effects will be TO REDUCE THE WA
GES OF LABOR IN THIS COUNTRY
mechanical, manufacturing, agricultural,
and all Others, Of course-I have consider
ed it material and important to require to
what extent this reduction was to take
place. These wages, we are told, must
come down to the specie standard; and we
have been referred to Germany and Hol-
land, and other European countries, as ex-
amples Of hard money currencies, and the
effects of such eurrencies upon
wages.
In France, yearly acoges for an able-bo-
died man range from 46 to $50 shillings,
and day laborers get in that country from
J to l 5 pence per day, and whenever they
get as much at pence, they have to find
themselves. In Germany wages are still
lower, and range by the year between so
and 100. shillings, and day laborers receive
from 4 to I pence per day, and find them
selves in food. In South Holland, farm
hands get by the year from 200 to $50
shillings, and day laborers from 3 to 4
pence per day, and are found. And so on,
sir. Whoever will take the trouble to ex-
mime, will see that, in all these countries,
which are held up to us such bright exam
Dles of hard money couatries-Franee,
Germany, Netherlands, Italy-wages by
he year for able-bodied, sound, healthy
nen, nowhere exceed 25O shillings; and,
II many instances, fall as low as 40, so,
md go shillings; and the daily wages
ange from 8 TO 9 and II pence-rising
n one place, and one, to 20 pence, and
he la5orer finding hinsey! What a COM
nentary upon the hard money policy
What hope is there for man born the son
# poor parents ever to better his condi-
ion? What ray of hope is there to stim
llate him to exer;ion? None, none! He
Who is there born peasant dies peasant.
Those born at the plow die at the plow-tail,
nd all that the longest life of laborious
oil can procure for them is course and
canty subsistence"
Henry Clay took part in the debate,
nd denounced the scheme which Mr..
Buchanan advocated as GAN AVOWED
POLICY TO REDUCE THE WAGES
)F LABOR" He was succeeded by
honest John Davis" of Massachusetts,
Tho cited mass of statistics, to show that
he average of "the real prices of labor
throughout the world" which Mr.. Buch-
nan wanted the worth of American indus
ry reduced to, was less than TEN CENTS
DAY!
And the mechanics of his own State of
pennsylvania, as q token of their resent
lent, forthwith listened upon Mr.. Buch-
nan the stigma and nickname of Ten
'ENT JIMMY.-Albany Journal.
GEAt the Buchanan Tippecance rally,