Abuts' 3ournal. POTTSVI Saturday Morning, March IS. ISFINJAMIN B%NN&N, I,ME nOW.EN, -Issiotant Editor TA.MAQL A u-Ma. S. .I.'Fny Is nuthorDed to receive subsctlp iians fOr the ttliners' Inurnal, and reteipt for the same 'lt his Drug store, in Tamaqua. - VOLNE. B. PALMER, • . -; 1 At dis Reel Esta s and Coat Arendt,. , • .Corner of 'lard& Chc nut Streets, Philadelphia.; . r 'a t.l6o, Nassau Stree . Ne Kew York, • ' . . 16, State Street.l3 stnn, and - • , oath cart corner of altimore, & Calvert Streets. 'll'aertrnore, to our Agent or receiving subscriptions and idverttrestoerdte for theleers' JournaL ggr. The circulation a the Miners' Journal Is greater than an'y Other paper put:dished in Northern Pennsylve. 'ail, and hes nearly double the circulation or any other :published in Schuylkill county. ltrdso circulates lamely 'among capitalists. manufacturers, iron and coal dealers, I throughnut the Atlantic and Eastern States. THE PROTECTIVE POLICY OF THE COUNTRY I The People Demand its-Ite3torrolont. For Prriident, General ZACHARY TAYLOR; 'Stalect to the Decision of the Whit liational Convention FIRST OF APRlL—Thisje the season at which the business orate present year will commence, and it pre-, gents a tine opportunity to subscribe for the allure Jeureel. The year,lienceforth,w ill be full of important matter•, not the least of which, will be the election of a President of the United States, Members of Congress, &e Take oar advice, and subscribe In time, and thug secure a Jouinal useful and Interesting to yourself, your wife, nod even your "little ones.!s PUBLIC MEETlNG.—ConersOas of Ifs:rieus-Nels at•llarrisburg:—A Meeting of the :coal Operators, Iron Manufacturers, rce ; Will be held the Pennsylvania Ball, this alternOon, (Ssfunley) 'tit 4 o'clock, for the purpose of appointing Delegates to represent Schuyl kill County in said Conscntion. NOTICE IN TlME.—Those of our subscribers who • are about to change their place of resident°, will please give us or the proper earlier, notice where they desire their papers to be left. Any others who may not be In the regular receipt of their paper, will confer a favor üby Informing us of the fact, that we may - ascertain :when tht fault lies, and correct it. THE LOCOTOCOS, AND THE TARIFF. he loco ocos are very, .usy, at present, in ex plaining the difilculaci into which their free-trade, leaders have involved the country. - The presses in the keeping of Mr. Polk, assign various reas ons for the downfall of the produce markets—the disasters attending every kind of manufactures, and the general inactivity of Busineett--thr prin• cipal ones of which am referred to the old cause— (a-contenient „retreat for them When they Fare dteanered"--) the Banks and the Currency ! sow, laying aside the absurdity of any endeavor to change the present Banking system of our country (under Locofoco rule,) let us reflect for moment upon the fallacy of the doctrines preach ed up to apologise for, or to eXtenuate; the onus. Lien in which they have plac . ed our afflirs, it is scarcely necesssdry to observe, that under judicious rates of duties on imported goods: the currency at home must remain. comparatively ,healthy-and vigorous. The reason is; that' the vale basis .is preserved, which is essential to maintain confidence, and secure credit. However ...frontons the different banking systems may be, , (and that of ear oven State :is much` better than many others) or however they may fail-to har monise in their operation. over - the people ? —a sound and judicious Tariff, which keeps the specie at home, and tliva ereures us a certain basis, will effectually prevent those eipansions and contrac ' tints' in the currency, Which are the inevitable concomitants of the contrary circumstancM.-L When specie is plenty, the 'hanks are free to op. eratet—but when it is withdrawn froM their vaults, and emptied upon foreign ahmvis by the million, they mirk curtaTl-thi as, or run the hazard of those failures wl a to over take them. Money thus becomes scarce--enter. prizes of great' moment pro laid aside ; and the regular business of the manufacturer, the miner, and the merchant, ..is crippled, and business confi dence between individuals is impaired. , Let the peopleonderatand that it is simply labor which -they most need—gond, steady, permanent employment' at fair and regular wages. Give them this, and many of the evils which nets , ' af flict them will vanish -like darkness before the rising sun. To set every one to work- 7 :to bring ouLthe genius, the industry, and -the epterprize of our people=shoulti be the paramount Object of our' government. ' With what grace, then, does it become those ignorant, self conceited scribblers, who talk largely of the pinciples of a government which they do not understand, and for which they have noSym pathy—those scribblers for the incendiary Ledger, and the wish-a-washy Emporium, to talkrof a paddler receiving three dollars a dal, or a hammer. et making even more ! Such ridiculous ninnies, if ordered to do similar work, would be killed otit. right with the blazing heat, and ere-a doien blows would be struck with the ponderous hammer, they would beast a blood,vessel; or smash their toes! Such Mess can easily'talk of 401.1) wises, when re alizing $2OOO per annum for attending to lands, in the management of which many others could bring to bear more skill and common sense for one fourth the amount. : ' . But -the principal argument used by your empty inflated free.tradists, or advocates for foreign labor, in opposition to the- labor of our own country- is, that when wages - arc low everything•elle becomes low also. /07110.1 Buchanan in his famous speech in the Senate against the tariff, declared -that if you reduce the•nontinal standard (wages) to the • real standard throughout', the crld, and! you will cover our country with blessings 'and hones fits." That is from 15 to 20 cents per day, as it is in all other countries,' except England, where it - .ranges a little higher, because provisions are high. --er. Now a greater, We was never proclaimed.— .• The reduction. of wages in this country does not -and cannot tine down the puke of every thing else: It does not bring down the price of Meth -cine—itdoes not bring down the price of Tea and Coffee—it does not bring down the price of Pro visions—it may affect the price of clothing a little —but even this we doubt. Provisions are affected by other causes :—a scarcety of the crops at home or abroad, will. enhance the prices here ;=which was fully illustrated last year, by the enhancement of the price of sue, Produce from 30 to 50 'per cent. But did labor go up, in the country, la . 4t year? Far from it. In many places it retrograd. ,cd in the very face of the rise of provisions. Did jhe price of labor go up in England and Ireland ,during the famine, when provisions rose to rapid. sly? Far from it: or else-all the accounts we IV: ,ceived fro those suffering countries were incorrect. -We repeal] that such assertions ore downright ,falsehoods, proved such by tbo whole history of ,the past; and the man who, observing the laws ,of trade and exchange, can adduce such ergo ,ments, must be either a eery great fool," or a very ssreal knare. Ho is welchme to either horn of the diiemma, and between the two be sure of getting what ho ie entitled to ! • Now, reader, mask tho expreosions of these :ninnies!—when they say that everything is: 100 high—that it must eolith dotcn—they. intend :to strike at labor! But to do this openly would not answer; therefore they strike at the proprie for, and endeavor to pfove that be has made com mons profits. If this were Wm, we do not believe that many manufacturers of woolen, cotton and iron, in all sections of the country, would atop lousiness, or fail entirely. Every body will in stinctively; if not from pride, keep Vs business -from stopping as long as he can; and" if these tnanufacttirers make the enormous profits 'stated, our word for it,,they would not fail, or suspend operations. But the contrary is the ease, and to save themselves and families from want, they And this alternative prudent and necessary. Now, if everything is too high, let us see how pia reducing' process effects labor:—taking, for instance, a ton of iron: To manufacture a ton pF ,ion, it takes about 2i tons of ore, which in , . - the rancid is -worth - abe 30 r a nts ; - 11/ tons Coal, worth on the. avenge 75 . cu., and Lime stone worth about 10 cents—Mtking the raw ma; teas! that enters into a ton of iron about $1.15 et., and which cannot be reduced. Now, all the rest telebor-uall labor, and if the manofacturers an compelled to make a reduction of from $7 to $lO on a ton of pig metal, every man d common sense knows that foirr-fifths of the reduction must foil an tabor ! So with Coal It a worth about 30 cis. per ton in the ground. It sold lost year in cars, at Mount Carbon, at an average of *beret SZ-30 cts, per' ton. -Reduce it this year to about $1.90 eta a $2.00 ets.—(the prices at which the Dealers say they must purchase, in order to com pete with the Foreign article, admitted under the reduced rates of the preient Tariff.) and the whole reduction must fall upon labor. There will be no reduction on rents, for theiettses are made—nor on tolls ;—they continue the The Operator cannot reduce his prate, it is well known that they did not make lasOyear S per cent. for their investments, and gave. their labor for nothing. So with every article that'en ter, into our manufacturers : labor is the princi. pal and important ingredients. If capitalists cannotmake 10 or 12 per cent, they will not in vest their money in manufactures, fmm the fact that the number of fluctuations attending it, prove it to ba the most precarious business in the coun try. They can make - from 6to 8 per cent. by merely loaning their money, and following more certain occupations. We question, however, whether any of our manufacturers have ever re alized more than 10 per cent. per annum, on an average, on their investments, unless it were in come new And limited branchespf business. Hut ,aven 'in these, competition soon brings about a regular standard of prices, and tames but fair re munerating profits. If lodefoco ignorance, and knavery will render the manufacturing business precarious, capitalists will not embark in it; and according to the spirit of the writting of these ninnies, it is a heinous crime fur a 'man who possesses , Skill and enter: prize, to borrow money from a bank or an indi vidual to carry on business, and giveemployment to the people: and theory is raised upon every failure—"Oh! he • was in debt! He went be yond his means!—it was not , the Tariff that stop ped his works—oh no! Such men ought to fail!" If your Silvers, acid Palmer., and all the brazen. faced leaders of locorneoism who advocate such foolhardy doctrines in • Schuylkill County, had been prohibited from obtaining credit occasional ly, and were thrown upon their own resources, we would loon be compelled to enlarge the dimensions of our Poor House! KEI We are, glad, however, that the Emporium and its party have at last shown their •colors. Heretofore it has deceived the people by professing tube in favor of protection to American industty. But it is 'ups joined to the idol of its party—free trade—and all may therefore know where to find it. We shall close this article with a few words of advice to the people in whose midst such rota doctrines are promulgated. It is thii : Whenever you find 'papers advocating doctrines which you know to be detrimental. to your interests, show' your dieaprobation by discontinuing thim at once•, for so long as you continue to take them they believe Abet you approve their course, end you desist to deceive and humbug the community; There may be honest differences of opinion on questions of minor importance, and which can. I not affect the beet interests of the people one way or the other. In such cases, this course would by no means be proper;—but when it becomes a question of No Bread and-Degredation to the laboring classes, it requires prompt and efficient remediei. For there is a vast difference between newspaper and mere individual opinion. The latter, at most, can exercise, but a limited influence; big the formir circulates among the unreflecting, end they are something led, by plausible 'stories, to their own destruction. If the mechanics,work ingmen, laborers, and others, would only take such a eland in defence' of their own 'interests we would guarantee that the 'Emporium. and all other papers of a similar stamp, would seen change their ground, or cease to exist in less than a . year ; and these robbers of the labouring man's capital .