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| An Irish stone-cutter requests US to inform his
brethren that, when our Custom House was built,
(as he knows, fer he worked on it) while the plain
stone were obtained in this country, all the figured
caps of the columns were purchased ready made
in Italy, and the American stone-cutter deprived
of the work upon them, because labor is cheaper
in Italy than here. So the magnificent Patent Of
fee at Washington is paved in mosaic, with
hewn and polished in Germany, while American
stone-cutters are vainly seeking employment
Working Men do you favor this policy


We wish to add an illustration to the argument
of our correspondent "A Journeyman Halter An
elderly gentleman, conversng with us on the Ia
riff few days since, gave us this passage in his
own history: In 1890 he was apprenticed at the
age of II to Halter, and worked eight years
faithfully learn the trade In 1898, Just as his
time out, the country was suddenly deluged
with British Hats, poured in by the cargo under
our Revenue Tariff. Ofcourse, the Hating busi-
ness here was brought to dead stand every
louineyman wes discharged from Maine to Geor-
gia and he, after spending eight years to learn the
trade, found it worthless in his hands, and was
obliged to betake himself to something else or
starye. No matter how low our Hatters might
have made hats then, the market was so glutled
with the Foreign article that no others would sell
at all. He found work at something else, and has
never since made Hat, but he does not the less
sympathize with his brethren who have since been
exposed to similar revulsons, and will be again if
| the Tariff is cut down to Revenue standard He
charges his eight years to the account of Free
Trade, and remembers it whenever Election comes
round.