Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-09-22
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THE PAYMENT OF FACTORY GIRLS.
The following statements of hCts answers a
score OF the measurements of facts. as to- the
poor wages received b. those employed in the
New England factories. The Greenfield De-
moCIat Is our authority.
"AiiSs Louisa Boylen woVe. week before
last. a, ,.ie mills ol the Gristwoldvillc MAUI
featuring Company in ColeEine, PIP yorDs of
cotton cloth and received for the same SIS 30.
Misses Susan SticSnoy and CharlOtte New
cOm5e wove in the same time ZOOS yards each.
and received for the same So each. Misses
Louisa Bretten and ElNim Marcy wove i'm the
same time 1874 wards each, receiving for the
same 50 80 each, making 10, l06 yards Of cloth
wovc by Eve hands In one week
! These are probahly exceptions TO the gene
raj rule, but il j. true OF those employed in
manufactures. a. il Is Cl those employed alb
out any other business. They who are most
skiltul, and most Industrious, obtain the most
wages. as They ought. Those who earn but
one or two doligrs a week are usually worth
no more. The great evil of tho day Is, that
/ there is more sympathy for the drones OF the
I hive than for the hottest and mduStriods-
more indeed. ior the dishonest and disSipatcd
/ than for those OF good mouIsand good habits.
Half the faults OF individuals are pUtupon the
/ shoulders oi Society. Hour rciormcrs, polit-
/ iCal and social. religious and secular, would
carry their reforms home to men and women,
and seek To make the individuals wiser and
better. they would 10 great deal more good
than they now do, BY ppting against society.
! We have given above a few facts as To one
class of persons employed i'm the manuiactu-
/ RES of New England. and we hear much eve
~ day from the Loco Foco press of the "lord-
" and aristocatic proprctors" who are made
/ rich by making others poor The Portsmouth
Journal tells OF the extent of this nabobism in
the principal town in New Hampshire. 1t
asks
WHO is the lor'ly propretorof the Mari
! borough Foundry a mechanic, active and
energetic.
"Whc are the lordly proprietors ofthe Ports
mouth Steam Factory, now building! One OF
/ them may b. seen every day, loading bricks
with his own roughened hands, and driving
/ his team to haul them. and thus pay for his
shares. Others may be seen laying stone,
joinering, &c.
"Who are the lorlly owners and oversesI-
of our Steam Tamerirs, OF the Franklin Foun-
! dry, of our Brass Foundry, OF our Carriage Fac
/ tory. of our Machine Shops, and of our new
Stocking factory? They are mcchanics-and
are among thr lordly owners of manufactures
pointed out for the envy and hatred of the
/ farmers
Between these persons there ought TO exist
the strongest possible bond of sympathy
/ The owners here are as much working men as
any other persons employed. The open field
which gives one man the supremacy to-day
/ is as open TO give another man the supremacy
! tomorrow. There Is common ground iol
all to stand upon. and common Providence
over all. They who prejudice tn, one class a
gainst another, and who ALLEVIATE one elias,
from another, are but f,uds in human form.
Thcynlar the happiness of men without offer
ing amy antido.e for the evils ,hey declare to
exist, and they rob men of peace and rlcn-
~, and substitute for these sometimes crime.
sometimes idleness and these always coupled
with prejudice ami discomfort.