The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-01-04
American Labor to be properly and Pow
erfulIY Controlled" a.c

From the New York Tribune.
The New York Tribune wish es happy
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, serV iceable and ele-
giant clothing, best education tor your chill
dren and mental development for your
salves. he yours, each and all, our brothers
and sisters who live by days wages
We bring you gift-a little gift. Would
II were larger. But it may have great val
ne. and we have great pleasure in bestow'
ing it on YOU 1t is an extract from a Dr.1-
is6 Importer's Price Current OF metals, Is
srad on the 14th of November last, by Jonn
D. NJ % Jobn-st, New-York 1t ID III
these words:
ssrt ia true that in Iron strong organIza.-
49,, oriets nowerful in it's wealth and poll
ticoI influence, to operate ON the next Con-
o,ress for large increase Ia the duties on
fora;c,p Irons and some other foreign manu-
foct,Spes but an equally powerful and
Wealthy organization, with far greater pop
MARTY will oppose it, and the very high
r,rices of ali the necessities of life, and OF all
material of new enterprise, 0iLt waterway
mid the latter organization, and urot0 all me
,,yobabilities of success IN their fa0or' Inc
American Iron master has great difficulties
to contend with, all, doubtless, admit; Inc
high rates the naturalization Of ms f0oor'
nnd ;ts continuous and clamor0Us demand tor
~,oro ,,,,, mad less york. the exorbitant price
Of coal are all highly embarrassing and add
Greatly m the cost of Iron production. Yet
an increase of tariff may only intensity these
l.I,n tn hppOInR
exantino in its demands. An increase III
tariff obtained. the ever watchful leaders OF
the labor movement would demand cor
resnonding decrease in work, coal operators
combine for an increase in coal prices, and
fine Iron master would be no better off than
before. 1t would really seem as II the true
wau qoerg TO qgork psrsiSteg.dy and gradually
for q PROPER AND POWERFUL CONTROL OF La
BoR," &C., &c.
II is an axiom with the soundest national
economists of Germany, Russia, France and
America, that every English treaty OF conf
nlerce exhibits alpurpose to make the coun-
try with which it was negotiated subser-
Went to the interests and profits OF the man
ufacturers, ship owners, and merchants OF
Great Britain under the deusve offer OF
advantages in supplying them with agricul-
tural products aud raw materials-that the
constant effort of the English for over two
hundred years has been to ruin the industry
of other countries by the cheapness of their
manufactures and the length Of their credits
that they have labored to effect this by
war, diplomacy, fraudulent undervaluatlon,
smuggling and, of late years, by an organ
lied preaching to the nations of the world
of the doctrine of Free Trade. which is only
Justly applicable to States wholly without
industry and to States having equally de-
veloped industries, but which is urged as a
scientific truth of universal appicationwhose
adoption will bind rival peoples together and
tie the nations into universal brotherhood
Whoever, uneducated in economy or missed
ucated, may be deceived by this gospel OF
Free Trade, the manufacturing laborers OF
the United States are not deceived by it,
They know that the essence of British Free
Trade is derselling-that its purpose is
to get possession of all foreign markets-that
it's aim is to make England the manufacture
er 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 extend their multiform blasting
curses to the laborers of all countries whose
laws expose them to their reach, and will
drag them down inevitably to the poverty,
wretchedness, degradation and slavery in
which the manufacturing laborers Of En-
gland grovel at the bottom of British soc1e-
ty
The American working men and women
know this, and they can't be cheated or ca
ioIed out of the knowledge And knowing
it. they send greeting to the New York resi-
dent emissaries Of the British monopolists
and British Free Trade-''a happy New
Year to you, and do you just try on your
proper and powerful control of our labor
We will scken you of that undertaking
worse than Gen. Jackson sickened your IA
theirs of the job of taking New Orleans. Try
it on We have on our muster rolls 1852
861 people directly supported by established
American manufactures. Try it on J"