Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-07-29
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN LABOR.

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN LABOR.
That free trade and monopoly paper the
Philadelphia Ledger, in recent number
says
1t is manifest all around that the tariff is
to be made hebby in the next political can
vass. at least SO far as the politicians in the
eastern and middle States can make it so.
Various ridiculous theories-most of them
exploded-are pressed into service, and urged
with all the earnestness of truth"
We suppose the Ledger considered
among the ridiculous theories the fact that
the contract for the pipes for the Potomac
Aqueduct has been given to a party who
will have the pipes made IN ,Scotland.
The pipes are ordered to be of an unusual
length, and the time allowed to furnish
them IS SO short, that the proprietors of es-
tablisments in this country, although will
ling to make them even at a lower rate
than they are now contracted for, could
not, without great Inconvenience, furnish
them within the time specified. 1t is eyi-
dent, says the Daily News, that there was
no necessity for requiring them all before
the first of October next, as there is no
probability that the work will be in such
state of forwardness as to be brought to
completion so soon as this haste would seem
10 indicate. If the pipes are required at
that time, the contract could easily have
been made sooner, so as to allow american
founders an opportunity TO compete with
their foreign rivals. The Potomac Aque-
duct is entirely too good job to be brought
TO an end Uncle Sam has already bled
pretty freely to keep it going, and there is
no likelihood that he will be let off until
the leeches of the Potomac are all gorged
One establishment near PHILADELPHIA
could readily have furnished the pipes, if
they were not required to be furnished in
so brief period, and taken all the circum-
stances into consideration, we are warranted
IN the belief that the government designed
10 favor a foreign establishment at the ex-
peuse Of those of our own country. A |
more cold blooded, heartless insult to the me-
ehanlcs OF our country, cannot be imagined |
Here IS an administration which calls itself |
Democratic, which processes to be the De-
cujar friend Of the people, and the advo-
cate Of the rights and interests of work
ingmen. That administration knows that
Tor a year past many thousands of the most
worthy men Of our country have been suf.
ferlng the greatest embarrassment and dis
rress for want of employment MANY of
them are mechanics, capable of doing the
most useful work, with families depending
upon them Tor support, standing idle, and
looking with gloomy apprehension to the
future, while the government deliberately
takes the money belonging 70 these men,
and pays 1t to the people Of Scotland for
doing work which could be better done at
home. Five thousand tons of castinps
including the cost of the iron, NAV be fair.
ly estimated as the equivalent of 200 900
days work.
In effect, Mr.. Buchanan s administration
has given away years living of thous.
and faaaiiies, and this is the smallest mart
OF the injury, for the money thus given
aHay-lost forever to cur country-would
be sufficient to keep two thousand men con-
sta LILY at work. Here is a beautiful illus
tratlon Of Democratic love for the people.
II they can get their votes, they care not
whether the people starve, Or beg. or per-
lsh IN any miserable manner, SO that some
OF the foreign supporters of the Admins
'ration can make a good profit off a gov
eminent job. American mechanics are
good enough to do voting for the Loco
foco party, but when even their own mon
ey is to be paid away for Government work
1T must be sent to the foreign allies of this
party
When viii workingmen begin to assert
their own rights? When will they beg;p
to teach their masters at Washington that
they will not forever submit to be trod up-
on, derided and misruled by heartless OIL
igarchy.