New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-14

IL the Cotton grown in Georgia or Alabama "eie
henCefOrth to be spun and woven her SOIL IL WOuu
not DO possible to resist general and very declue
enhancement of the average recOmpense Oh her Ia
Dor. The manufacturers would be no more generous
than the farmers or planters now are: they WouIu
pay higher wages because they must and the farm
ers, with more remunerative markets brought to
their doors, could not help doing likewise.
". All over the civilized world. Hired Labor,
finding its food grow dearer by reason OF the recent
deluge of gold from California and Australia, Is
struggling to achieve to MAINTAIN correspond
ing augm sntatiOn of wages. This movement Is nat-
urally resisted by those who must pay the wages;
and their most potent argument runs thus " can
mot pay four shillings per day for abOrn England
when must sell my product in free competition
with that of French rivals who pay but three, and
"Beleian who pay but two sbilings." Thus the re-
duction or abrogation of Duties Imports is made
to iustfy resistance to reasonable alike with I'M
reasonable demands for an increase of wages; every
employer looking to the lowest sum anywhere paid
as the standard which he cannot afford to
exceed, and making reduction anywhere
his ground for demanding a corresponding reduc-
ton in his concern The helplessness of the Labor
ing Glass in one country compelling them to submit
30 a reduction in Difference to the masters plea
cannot else retain this or that foreign market"
that reduction is made the excuse for correspond
ing demand in another country and that IN another
till the vicious circle is complete Free Trade III eff
feet sets the Laborng Class of different countries to
bidding against and underwriting each other for
each others markets, as well as for those OF
other countries wherein they meet as competitors on
equal terms. Contemplating this ruinous struggle,
Carlyle forcibly, manfully says
"The Continental people, it would seem, are Inn inn
porting our machinery, beginning 10 SPIN cotton ana
manufacture for themselves, 10 cut us out OF this
market and then ont of that. Sad news, indeed;
but irremedable: by no means the saddest news;
The saddest news is that should find our National
Existence as i sometimes hear II SAID, depend Oh
selling manufactured cotton at tarthlng an Ell
cheaper than any other People. A most narrow stand
for great nation to base itself on a stand
which. with all the COrn-Baw AbrOgatlOns cOnceN-
able do not think will be capable OF enduring"
In my conception, the true and ultimate relation
OF the Laborng Glass of country to that OF an
other-of all others-is not that of underwriting
rivals seeking to take the bread from the mouths OF
each others children but that of generous fraternal
co6perators for the attainment of the highest good
for each and all If it were practicable, at my dis
cretiOn through invention, machinery, the aggrega-
ton of capital, talent experience, and skill fol
the artisans of my country to undersell and run
out the artisans of all other countries, so that
all manufactures should be gradually transferred TO
and thencefOrth prosecuted only on our SOIL
would not speak the word that would insure such
transfer 1 believe that the true interest of all
peoples requires the successful, enduring Drosecu
ton of the various useful arts by each so that the
genius, talent capacity. Of the entire race shall
be constantly melted TO invent machinery and I'M
prove processes which shall to the substantial
and permanent benefit Of the entire family Of Man.
s"PA,i and Present"