The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-09-02

COuf1CGs uILlSoll Ol having Deeu gull
ty, it identifies itself with the wrong
done you, yet still expects you to
support it, and to vote for one who
not only permitted, this outrage
against you, but also permitted his
assistant to aid men in violating the
laws of the land, and if you don't do
it they will be after you with that
"relentless hand" which they know
so we'll how to use. As citizens you
are entitled to exercise your rights,
and as citizens you should also see
that none others are, by fraud, en-
abled deprive you of your right.
If THE price of a suit of broad
cloth, manufactured in England, is
ten dollars, wide DR.. Perry and the
cost of the raw material, and the ex-
pense of manufacturing the cloth,
with the merchant tailor profit is
eight dollars, how much does the
workman get for his wages? And
is it any wonder that the labor of
that country is pauper. If the same
goods are shipped here, under free
trade Democracy, they will be sold
at trifing advance on that cost.
How long, therefore, would it take
to bring the wages Of the American
tailor down to the same level with
the foreign tailor? He never would
work for that, you say. But he must
if he follows his trade, for in no
other way can clothes be made
so as to compete with the foreign
ones, or else he will have to seek
employment in something else. He
has no other trade, and perforce will
be obliged to seek work as a day
laborer. Oh, well you say, there is
room for him. But the same mex
orable law, visits other branches in
the same manner. The iron of Eu-
rope will flood the land, and be sold
at prices less than it can be produ-
ed here, unless Sthe wages of the
workmen are reduced to the same
standard as those of Europe. But he
will not work for such low wages,
you say again. Then the works
must stop, and the workers of iron
will be forced to seek employment
in other branches, just as it happen
ed in 1841. You say again, there is
room for him. But other branches
suffer and with the same result, and
the field of the day laborer is over
stocked. These men must live, their
families cannot starve. As a conse-
quence the wages of the day laborer
must come down. Why, because of
the excess oflaborers, and agreeably
to that other memorable law which
governs prices,-supply and demand
When the supply is in excess the
demand is not so active, and prices
90 down-that is law of trade,
that all understand. And such is
the inevitable consequence of free
trade doctrines applied. They are
very nice in theory but abominable
in practice, Its a great fallacy, an
injurious sophistry with which De-
mocracy deludes the poor mana
will o the whisp, unsubstantial and
irrational,
1t is very gratifying, doubtless, to
think that ten dollars would buy a
suit of clothes that now cost thirty,
and SO it would be if the present
prices in every other respect would
remain the same as now, but when
the day laborer's pay dwindles to fif-
ty cents day, with hungry mouths
to feed, the vision of cheap clothes
becomes more distant than now. 1t is
in vain to think that with prices re-
duced, as they would be with free
trade prevailing, that wages could re-
main as now.
Did you ever know man to invest
his capital in any business, unless
there was at least reasonable pros
pect of it's paying him fair profit?
Did you ever know him to continue
in a business long when he was losing
money? and no prospect Of making it
pay. The dry good man don't dc
it; the grocer don't do it; the manu-
facturer can't do it, any more than
any other,-capital mustsearn some
thing, or capital yanishes. Labor is
the poor mans only capital, and it
must earn something; must earn him
o living. He has no other capital
with which to do it, and when that
labor is depressed his living is scant,
but when it is brisk his living Is abun-
dant. Protection to the manufacture
er means protection to labor, for it
furnishes employment at good wages
1t is the poor mans friend. Free
trade is the poor mans enemy, for 1t
steals away his profitable employ
ment, and gives it to the pauper la
borer ofEurope, or it compels the
poor man to accept the pauper labo-
rers wages, in order that the goods
manufactured by his labor may be
sold as low as those manufactured
by the pauper.
Dickinson is in favor Of Free
Trade, yet claims to be the poor
mans friend.