Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-02
NOTES.


The statistics referred to in the remarks Of Mr..
Davis are contained in Porter's Porgrcss OF the
Nations and Wades History of the Middle and
Working Glasses, two recent and respectable au-
thorites relying for the correctness of the facts
contained in the following extracts chiefly upon
the statistics collected by the British Government.
These Developments show the farmer and all
other working the condition of the working
classes in Europe. and upon what limited means
they subsist. Ii is this class of men with whom
they are to run the race OF cheap production. and
consequently of coarse and wretched existence
for the same causes which reduce them TO hope
less penury will produce like results here. If
few pence day will not support men there, 1t Will
fail TO do it here. The intelligent working man
Of the United States will pause before he precip-
tatcs himself into such irrelrevabe wretchedness
to cheaper the products of labor. He will inquire
whether it tends TO elevate or depress his race
whether the privileges and hopes OF freemen are
utterly deusivc and end in relracng his steps 10
the degraded condition from which we all be-
! lieyed we had escaped. In his descent from the
present commanding position, he may well carry
with him these reflections, sit down in despair,
and spurn all the dazzling theories of sel-govern-
ment illusory if they leave him to subsis on the
humble diet, and 10 grapple with the sutfernge OF
the most desoate portion oI mankind.
| Wages IN f. ance.-Caais common iaborers
l-2 d. per day with board and without dwelling;
Boalogne, d. per day do do: Nautes Sd. per day
without board and without dwelling. The food
in somo districts consists in rye bread, soup made
of nillet, cakes made of Indian corn, and then
sen salt provisions and vegetables, rarely, if ever,
butchers meat" In others, "wheaen bread,
soup made with vegetables, and little grease or
lard twice day, potatoes or oIher vegetables: but
seldom butchers meat"
IStceden.--" The daily wages OF a skilled agri-
cullrst are "a. or 3d.; while the unskilled obtain
no more than 3D.. or 4d and board thenlselve -
Arr Inn in iIe hern
salt fish and potatoes; in the Northern provinces
porridge and rye bread form their iood.'
Bavaria -" Laborers are paid at the rate ofsd
per day in the country" without board
Bagium.- =" A skilled artizan may earn in suh-
mer is. I'd. TO Is. Sd; in winter from l0d. to Is.
3D.. unskilled alf as much without board, live up
Oh rye bread, potatoes, and milk" Agricultural
laborers have less.
Germany. - Dantzig aborers 3 4d. to I'd. Tel
day without board; Muhburg, I'd. per day do
holslein, ID. per day without board
yVsiherlands South Holland aborers 81. TO Id
per day without board; North Holland, 2od. per
day without board Antwerp, 81. per day do;
West Flanders, 96s. 20 l04s. per year with board.
} Haly.-Trieste laborers I'D per day without
hoard do. Cd per day with board lslrla, Cd. 10
0d per day without board; do. al. 20 Sd. per day
with board Lombardy, Al. to 3d. per day do;
Genoa, Sd TO 3d. per day do. and without lodg-
! lings; Tuscany. Cd. per day without either.
Sarony--"I In 1887 man employed in his own
loom working very diligently from Monday morn
ing to Saturday night, from 5o'clock in he morn
ing until dusk, aud even at times with lamp, his
vile assisting him in finishing and taking him the
work, could not possibly earn more Than 20 gros-
chen [about 60 centsl per week. Nor could one
who had three children aged X years and up
wards all working ut the loom as well as himself
} wi lh his wife employed doing up the work. earn
inthe whole more than 81 weekly"
.Narigaiion.- Between MS and England this is
placed upon footing of equality; all adv ntages
to our navigaiors being abrogated. II any interest
can bear direct competition this the one. But
let MS see The result as set down by Mr.. Porter
ain 1891" SAYS this writer, the proportion OF
British vessels which entered the ports OF the Uni
ted Slates was is per cen, compared with the
; American tonnage employed in The foreign trade
o. The United States; while, in 1885, that proper
ton was increased TO 80 per cent. The actual
numbers in each of the years from 1871 to leHa
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