New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-06


average of over $40 per week. in rural vii
lage, surrounded by fields and woods, while
the men employed average SIS per week if
they will. All work ten hours per day, closing
inhexibly Mt p. NJ, so as to afford ample time
for shopping. recreation, &C. We should like
TO compare the earnings, homes, Flood, clothing,
&c. of these Massachusetts, shoe makers with
those Of their fellow craftsmen in any other
country on earth.
V. We have said nothing of Mr.. Weiss
motives but Mr.. Carey asked him how it hap
pened that his errors of fact and calculation
all favored those foreign interests which nOtOri-
ously sought and recOmpenscd such favor on
this side of the water. Hcreupon, The Spring
field Republican pitched in after fashion
which we trust is peculiar to that journal,
saying:
"The accusation Of British gold always was con.
temptby silly and small from the earliest recorded use
Of il but there time when 10 was employed ny
heated parans who In their cooler moments were men
Of candor and respectabl'ty."
HereupOn we stated what we knew of Mr..
George Dwight, who lived in or near Spring
field, who was for several years well paid
and hosptabe agent of the British Wooden
manufacturers known as 1.-THE Yorkshircmcn y
at Washington, regularly employed and paid
to look after their interests as they might
be affected by the legislation of Congress.
We met him there Winter after Winter,
heard his business spoken of by almost
every mutual acquaintance, were confiden-
italy assured that he supplied Mr.. Robert
J. Walker with statistics and suggestions
TO aid him in framing the Tariff OF 1876,
and heard him often oppose or sneer at FRO
lection. We remember his greeting Mr.
Il. O. Parmelec, Chen u. S. revenue
agent for our Northern frontier) on his re-
appearance in Washington. as follows:
"Ah! Parmelee how do you get on with
"your smugglers along the Canada frontierT
"First-rate!r responded Parmelee; 81 we
"caught 'em all up-for two years ahead"
This man Dwight-who was as well if not as
widely known for years in Washington as
Walker himself-The Republican now pretends
TO regard as a myth, talks of n Mr.. George
Dwight now living in Springfield, &c, &C..
when he to whom we allude died some ten
years ago. and The Ercning Post attempts to
follow The Republicans Shiny trail. SO many
persons still live who knew the George Dwight
alluded to by us Che whom the late L. Is.
| Wakeman used to designate "MousetrapD
that We do not need to chase these quibblers
| We presume there are at least fifty George
Dyights still living in New England; but he
to whom We refer died at least ten years ago.
VI. The Republican of the Sd has long
| article in praise of Wells which is pretty Sc
| we're on spoation and monopoly" the pig
press "bigots," bgotry and reaction"
&c, but nothing that seems to come to the
point Finally, it ventures near enough to ask
| if the fact that Dwight was paid for advancing
British interests at Washington years ago
| proves that Wells is so paid nowf Certainly
not; but it does prove your original assertion
| (ouotcd above) conspicuously defiant of facts
VII The Erenip0 Post tries its hand at the
bellows, with the following result:
"Mr. H. G. Carey having charged Mr. Commissioner
Wells with exposing the monopolcs In iron SALT ana
lumber under the inspiration OF British Gold but with
out proof THE rushed TO the support Of that
mpetuous writer and showed that 1t must be so TOT
several reasons chiefly because one ever believed In
Free Trade except pay and because the FreeT1de
| League did not invite THE TRIBUNE TO examine It's
| records"
Here are three decidedly inexact aver
ments, namely:
1. Mr.. Carey did not charge Mr. Wells as is
here asserted.
2. The TRIBUNE never asserted that "nO
zone ever believed in Free Trade except for
"pay" We know many who believe in it
! without regard to pay we know no one else
so well paid for advocating it as The Post
3. The Free Trade League, through one of
its organs, Indignantly denied charge We
had never made-namely, that its funds were
largely supplied by foreigners. We thereupon
asked it to favor US with q transcript from its
books of list for publication of the contribu-
tors to its funds, with tho sums paid by each;
and this it would not be coaxed dared, nor
driven to do, in full view of tho inference
which the public could not help drawing from
that refusal. Every one must know that our
American Free Traders are neither afraid nor
ashamed to have the fact that they contribute
nor the amount of their contributions, to the
funds Of their League made public; every one
must understand the precise reason for rcfus-
ing us the list we asked for. If the Free
Traders can afford to rest here, surely zee eau.