The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-03


land. Already in Great Britain the capital
lists ona the labor. They control its COM
pensation and apply it as they desire, as
bcs, promotes their interest. Not to ex-
pend ourself in particular criticism Of the
crude and wild statements of the correspOn-
dent of the Bulletin, we will content ourself
with brief statement Of what seems to be
his aspirations, and then show the result OF
their qualification. Suppose We change our
system, and instead Of ''high tariff,
which means of course, tariff levied
with the primary purpose Of protection Ia
home industry, we have absolute Free
Trade, which will crafty our writer upon
political economy. The results:
First The laboring classes of this country
will be brought at once under the domination
of the capitalists, who control that interest in
Great Britain and Europe.
Second. The great manufacturing monop.
olies of Great Britain, will obtain complete
control Of both the buying and selling mar.
kets in this country.
When these free trade gentry Of the West
have succeeded in having things their OWL
way, they will find themselves entirely at the
mercy of the capitalist of the old and grown
up world beyond the seas. When they
have succeeded in breaking down
the barriers of protection TO home industry,
have got that order Of things established
wherein they can go and buy what they wan
in the cheapest market, they will learn tot
late that the things they buy cheap, are CHEAP
because labor is inadequately compensated
and that the power that controls that labor
will also determine the cost of &
bushel of wheat in their market, the onl,
thing they will have to give in return fol
the goods purchased cheap" The policy
of Free Trade is suicidal for the West. Oul
Democratic friends are in favor of tariff fol
revenue, such charges upon foreign i'm.
portations, as will secure fair revenue to
the government That idea is, and Away.
has been, very indefinite. A tariff for rev.
revenue operates precisely like a
tariff for protection. If the latter
bear heavily upon the labor interest, as our
Democratic friends say it does, then tariff
for revenue bears upon the labor interest
with only lessened force, and is wrong in
principle.
But We wish to state more precisely the
effects of Free Trade upon the West--upon its
labor interest. There are no large manu-
factories here, that are well grounded, of any
kind-iron, wooden, or cotton. There are
large old, wealthy and established manufac-
tories East, in Massachusetts,, Connecticut
and Pennsylvania, etc. These old establish
ments have grown up under the fostering
care of protection mainly, entirely. They
are located in part of the country that is
about done growing and where the main
business is the use Of money. They are less
interested in a tariff now than formerly.
They have grown into such a con-
dition that they can almost Offset
the pauper labor of Great Britain
with their superior machinery and skill, and
the advantage they have in our markets of a
reduced cost of transportation of both the
raw material and the manufactured. They
are not so anxious for protection. 1t will be
discovered that the eastern manufacturers,
leaving out the iron makers of Pennsylvania,
will favor a reduction of duties. Yet Free
Trade, in its essence, means that they shall
quit We are discussing, in rambling way,
the principles underlying this question. We
may as well say that if We were not a protec-
ZIONIST we should be free-trader. There is
no middle ground. Well, Free Trade would
open our markets at once to the goods which
our people want to buy cheap, made by men
women and children who can hardly keep
soul and body together with what is paid
hem for their work. That would bring
he established, rich eastern manufactur-
rs into immediate competition with
he terribly oppressed labor Of Great
Britain and other European countries. They
would have to close up their shops, or else
ind some way of reducing the wages of the
aborers. The latter, for some time, would
Ne impracticable. The mills would have to
top. Then the West, without manufactures,
'ut possessing all the raw material for almost
very commodity or article used in civilized
life, and without capital to help itself, would
rave to send its surplus productions grain,
took, wool, etc.-to Europe to pay for the
cheap goods" bought in the Cheapest mar
'et." Then, mind You, the West being ex-
lusively agricultural, would be entirely at
he mercy of the people who offer their
'ares in a cheap market. The latter would
make the farmer here pay the cost of the
of his grain, stock and wool
II the way to Europe, and then compel
i'm to pay the cost Of its carriage
ack in the shape of the cheap goods, he
1ould find it necessary to use. This il the |
ray the subject presents itself to us. The
Vest is peculiarly interested in maintaining
tariff which shall adequately protect Amer
can labor. Then manufactures will be built |
p in our midst. giving us our goods near at
and, in exchange for our productions. In
ther words, it will make it possible for the
makers Of our goods, of our implements, of
ur everything, needed in our working life,
nd in our life as growing, civilized Intelli-
ences, to live near us, so that we shall not
ave TO pay the commission of middle men,
nd the cost Of transportation for the things
'e raise to feed them with, and the things
'e produce out of which they make what We
lust use, TO foreign countries, and then it
i'll also make it possible that labor given to
ne production of crops, stock, wool, ETC., rs
ell as the labor given to the production Of
,ch fabrics as are required by the civilized
atoms, shall always be adequately rcnumer-
ed. This latter idea We shall speak about
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'nited States that is lighted with gas. 1t is
tuated on the Ohio River, about half mile
Glow East Liverpool, and has ninety-nine
lhabitants.
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