price. and wnxe.-cheup Goats.
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Why should be compelled to pay twenty dol
lars for coat, when bat for tariff i, might be
had Cor fifteen dollars is qustien perpe,uey
on the lips of those who advocate onesdced Froe
Trade system. Indeed there is class Of them
whs seemed 10 have resolved the whole sublsct .t
Protection TO American Lsbor into this one ques-
tion, aud thus entlcnched, deem their fortress i'm
pregnabe.


weuld asl, as a favor of every labering Rian, IN
order 10 be perfectly satisfied, that he would take
his slate and and pencil litle riece of chalk,
and with the assistance of few figures, determine
for himself whether the answer to tlls following
question be correct not, viz


How much more does a laboring man pay for u
coat at when the wages Of labori. 30 cents per
day, than he does for coat at $50 when the
wsgss of labor is 81 per day Answer, $50 per
cent. or 30 days more labor!


Now with this result before him, lie, him remcnl.
Der that one.sided Free Trade theorists admit, as
necessary consequence of their policy. that the
wages of labor here mast be reduced 10 cvc
with the wages Of labor elsewhere. The average
price Of Labor in Europe is 20 cents per day
But as salvc thcyt tell the American laborer that
the value of every thing else is to be reduced in the
same proportion. Let us examine this little.
The value of money is not 10 De lessened but TO be
made five times as 1ppch as ii was before, because
dollar will purchase FIVE times much as |;
would before SO then the money OF the wealthy
man is made to be worth FIVE times az much as II
was before! change Of great importance TO him,
one frausht with mighty consequences, as con-
nec,ed with his comfort, luxury snd power But
there, alas, stands the laboring man, upright,