New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-30
AMERICAN LABOR To BE "PHCP'
RRIY AND POWERFULLY con.
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The Ngw-IoBK TRIBUNE Wlshes happ!
New-Year to American Labor May high
wages. Jealous protection by Congress OF your
industry rapid savings Of wealth, the blessings
Of comfortable and handsome homes, the best OF
food, serviceable and elegant clothing best
education for your children, and mental de-
velopment for yourselves, DO yours each aud
all. our brothers and sisters who live by days
wages!
We bring you a gft-a little gift. Would it
were larger. But il may have great value, and
we have great pleasure in bestowigg 1t on you.
II is an extract from British Importer Prices
Current Of metals, issued on the lath OF No
vember last, BY John Pope, No. 9 John-St.,
New-York. II is in these Words
cit IL true that In Iron strong organization exists
powerful in is wealth and political influence, TO oyer.
a,e on the ncIt Congress for large incTcnso in the
fsnnres bnt an equally powerful and wealthy organra
tion with far greater popularity VIII oppose IT, and the
very high prices OF all the necessities OF NE ana OF all
material OF new enterprise. riH materially Hia ne latter
.con and hror all hs probabnniss o shcctO IN
thSy fdror The American Iron master has great diii
cultics to contend wth' all doubtless. admit: The
high rates tie naturalization Of his labor and 10
tirlOus and oaf.OrOBs derand for more pay and Lss
rork the exorbitan price of COAL arc all highly embar
and add greatly 10 the cost OF iron pipdncon
Yet an increase Of tariff may only intensity these evils
by enablisg labor become still exactng In it's
demands An increase In tarif obtained. the ever
watchfn leaders OF the labor movement would demand
, a CORE ponding increase IN Wages and still more
. corresponding decrease In work, coal operators com
enS an Yeyfase coal price,. and the Iron Iron master
seem If the true wny vts 10 NOrk p,rsiaenty and
: gradually for PHoPER AND POWERFUL CONTROL or
LABOR" &C., &c.
1t is an axiom with the sOundest national
economists of Germany, Russia, France and
America, that every English treaty Of com.
merce exhibits purpose TO make the country
with which 1t WAS negotiated subservient to
the interests and profits Of the manufacturers,
ship.owner and merchants Of Great Britain,
under the dclusive offer Of advantages in sup
plying them with agricultural products and raw
materials-that tho constant effort of the En-
glish for over two hundred years has been to
ruin the industry Of other countries by tho
cheapness Of their manufactures and the length
of their crcdits-that they have labored to effect
this by war, diplomacy, fraudulent undervalu-
alton, smuggling, and Of late years, by an or
ganized preaching TO the nations of the world
of the doctrine Of Free Trade, which is only
Justly applicable to States wholly without in
dustry, and to States having equally developed
industries, bnt which is urged as scien-
tifc truth OF universal application, whose
adoption will bind rival peoples togeth-
er and tic the nations into universal
brotherhood Whoever, uneducsted IN econ
omy or miseducated, may be deceived by this
gospel of Free Trade, the manufacturing labor
ers of the United States are not deceived by it,
They know that the essence Of British Free
Trade is undersclling- its purpose is to get
possession Of all foreign markets-that its aim
Is to make England the manufacturer of the
world at prices so low as to break down all
competitive induStry-that this policy, based
fundamentally on cheap bread, is built up
on LOW wAGEs-that low wages in England ex.
tend their multiform blasting curses to the la
borcrs of all countries whose laws expose them
TO their reach, and will drug them down inevi-
tahiy to the poverty, wretchcdness, degradation
and slavery in which tho manufacturing labor
ers of England grovcl at tho bottom Of British
society. The American working men and
women know this, and they can't be cheated or
cajolcd out of tho knowledge. And knowing 1t,
they send greeting to the Now.York resident
emissarie, of the British monopOlists and Brit
ish Free Trcdc-"A happy New Year to you,