The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-08

the freight on hi. wheat, corn, PORK, pee',
and other food raised to feed the class Oh
working people who furnish HIM with MS
.boyels. axes, ox-chains, cutlery, clothes 10
u,.r .,c etc. TO the mills and shops Of
Great Britain, France and Germany. And
then. after the monied magna'es OF
foreign lands. who own the mills
and the men, women and children
who work in them, have thoroughly
crushed out all competition in this country,
they will make this same farmer Pay also the
cost Of Carrying back the manufactured arti-
cIes he requires for his business and comfort,
because they will have complete possession
of both markets whenever We have 4 surplus
of produce TO sell.
We are manufacturing people just as
naturally as any other on the Globe. We
have all the conditions in the immense re-
sources of the country directly provoking
such industry. No people else own a
country with richer, vaster, more widely
distributed deposits of both the precious and
useful metals. No other can more easily and
abundantly produce the raw materiI for all
the useful fabrics. We require the results Of
these industries. These conditions, coupled
with the fact, that we are people certainly az
intelligent, as ingenious, and as skillful as
any other, makes Us As naturally manufac-
,tr r.,,l. a,,- m, he .a,.b
The competition of the manufacturing in
stitutions in our Olra country Is desirable
and inevitable. The price of products and
articles will all the while he subject 10 the
Law of supply and demand under the rule q
! .S.If Government II will not be competition
of paupeT labor with free labor.
This disposes of the major and minor
premises OF the paragraph quoted. There
is, therefore, no use for the conclusion.
Ii is, after so much Is said, an esay mattel
to sum up all OF the argument confined il
the balance OF Mr.. Cree's communication
We will remark here that his reference Il
statistics, is a logical mistake. They only
di,prove his argument, if he has made one
Statistics are valuless in the discus
sion Of the fundamental principle
of political, labor enconomy, unles'
they are absolutely accurate and Jcdl
directly upon the principles involved
in DISCUSSION II is much more desirable
that the ''rauper labor of Europe shculC
come to this country and make all the articles
products and commodities ne hare 10 consume
that can lie made here under the naiura
law indicated, with As cheap an HucstneEt .
labor as elsewhere in the world, where the.
will get iull compensation for their work
constant employment, and where they vii
be in intimate relations with the labo
class who feed them, and supply their en-
ployees directly with the raw material. Tn
logical summary Of our position which con
, cludcs Mr. Crce's communication is as dest
tlte of good, close reasoning as is the Who'll
article.
We caa state our argument IN a moi
, satisfactory form, and one which will e.lsil
and completely sum up the points IN tins al
ticle
, Isl. The labor Of the country IS free an
/ adequately compensated. ID. : 1t is We
compensated because Il Is free. Sd. IL
free because ii is and always has been 10
= certain degree protected against the chea
labor absolutely under the domination of Il
monied monopoli-;s of the developed nation
of the Old World.