Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-04-30

have taken great aud sincere satisfaction,
believing it to be the great end of our free
Government, and the only sure means OF
sustaining it, In the name and in behalf
of that great, powerful, and enlighteh-
ed class Of my fellow citizens of Massachu-
setts, whom | have the honor to represent
enter my solemn protest against the doc
trines here advanced; and if my voice
could reach them in their dwellings, their
shops, and on the decks Of their vessels, A
wonld exhort them not to be deluded by
false theories leading them on to ruin, but
to rouse up their energies, and at the ballot
box, manifest their indignation at all at
-tempts to Cypress them by diminishing
their business and taxing their labor to en-
rich others ! would entreat them not to
sit still aud be made such as they see the
distressed and impoverished laborers ofEu-
rope and Asia,
NOTES.
The statistics referred to in the remarks
of Mr. Davis are contained in Porter
Progress of Nations, and Wade's History
of the Middle and Working classes, two
recent and respectable authorities, relying
for the correctness Of the facts contained in
the following extracts chiefly upon the sta
risiics collected by the British Govern
lnent.
These developments show the farmer and
all other working men the condition of the
working classes in Europe, and upon what
limited means they subsst 1t is this class
,ofmen 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, it will fail TO do it here. The inteli-
gent working man Of the United States
will pause before he precipitates himself
into such irretrieyable wretchedness to
cheaper the products Of labor. He will in
.qnii e whether ittends to elevate or depress
his race-whether the privileges and hopes
offreeman are utterly delusive, and end in
rotracing his steps to the degraded condi
ton from which we all believed we had es-
capped In his descent from the present
commanding position, he may well carry
with him these reflections, sit down in des-
pair, and spurn all the dazzling theories of
-sclfgoyernment as illusory, It they leave
him to subsist on the humble diet, and to
g-apple with the suferngs of.he most des-
ola,e portion of mankind.
Wages in France. Calais common Ia
borers i-2d per day with board and with
out dwelling; Boulogne, sd. per day do.
do: Nantes 8. d, per day without board and
without dwelling. The food in some dis
tricts 'consists IN rye bread, soup made of
snilet, cakes made Of Indian corn, ,1o,c and
then some salt provisions and vegetables,
rarely if ever butchers meat" In others,
"wheaten bread, soup made with vegeta-
bles, and little grease or lard twice day
potatoes or other vegetables, but seldom
butchers meat"
S,veden THE daily wages of skilled
agriculturist are 7 d. or d.; while the I'M
skilled obtain no more than 9 d. or 4 d. and
board the nselves. Agricuturists in the
Southern provinces live upon salt fish and
potatoes; in the Northern provinces por
ridge and rye bread form their food
Bavaria. "Laborers are paid at the
rate of d. per day in the country" with
out board.
Belgium. IA skilled artzan may earn
in summer ls'2d to s. sd; in winter
from IOd. to Is. Cd; unskllled half as
much without board live upon rye bread,
potatoes and milk Agricultural laborers
have less.
Netherlands. South Holland laborers
Sd, to 4j. per day without board; North
Holland god per day without board; Ant
werp, Sd per day do; West Flanders, 96
to l04s per year with board.
Italy, Trieste laberers l2d. per day with
out board do Cd per day with board; Is
rra, Sd. to lOd. per day without board; do.
i'd. to 3D. per day wlth board; Lombardy,
4d. to Sd. per day do; Genoa, Sd. to 3D.
per day do. and withoutlodgings; Tuscany,
cd. per day without either.
Sarony. SIN 1887 man employed in
his own loom working very diligently from
Monday morning to Saturday night, from
s o'clock in the morning until dark, and
even at times with lamp, bis wife assist
ing him in finishing and taking him the
work, could not possibly earn more than 20
groschen [about 60 cents per week. Nor
could one who had three children aged IL
years and upwards all working atthe loom
as we'll as himself with his wife employed
doing up the work, earn in the whole more
than 81 weekly"
Navigation. Between us and England
this is placed upon footing Of equality;
all advantages to our navigators being abro-
gated IF any interest can bear direct
competition, this is The one. Bat let US
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