New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-20

universal interests of their class ~ well IS those
of the Race. II Machinery were so improved that
each davis work produced in the average four times IS
ruch in the average a. il now does, there would
b no less vork-for human wants increase in
definitely With the means of gratifying theu-and
il would be morally impossible that the Workers.
however destitute Of Property, should not share
in the increase Of comforts thus secured. Their
position might be relatively worse eontrasted With
that of the orehanded yet positively better shsnit
had formerly been On the other hand the increase OF
Population, especially where the great majority are
destitute Of Property does tend, apart from counter
acting influences to diminish the comforts Of the Labor
ing Clsss While Indiana or Iowa lad or while Oregon
shan have but one inhabitant 20 the square mile, the
Rent of Lsnd-that is, that portion Of the product
which Labor must pay to Capitawas and is much less
than after the increase of Population 70 ten, fifty
one hundred 70 the square mile In other words
While there few people to many acres, two or three
bushels Of Corn will pay the or interest on the
price) Of each arabic acre; but after the population
shan have become far more dense, the rent per acre as
indicated by the price Of land, viii have increased to
five ter or even fifteen bushels.
The Wages Of Labor tend to rise, other things be-
ing equal wherever the producers Of Fabrics are
brought nearer (either in time distance, or whatever
may govern the cost Of nterchanges to the producers
of Food and yet this tendency may be counteracted
this truth obscured by the cOncden operation Of coln
tersctDg infucnces-by Land Monopoly, by desolatIng
wars e1haustng the country, dverting its physical
force frsm production increasing the weight Of taIs
ton, &c-and perhaps by other causes.
-The National Era has the following;
WAGFs oN The RIsr-The average wages Of agr,cultur
al laborers in England last year were forty cents day
The wages encouragement carpenters nov, ~ waterford
Ireland are e.ghtythr cents a day.
In Central India the wages OF fed Sborer are now SIX
cents DAY be finding his own food women receive At
cents snd boys three cents House servants are better
paid they obliged 70 wear rather better clothes
Thirty years ago field hand cost his owner. IN the
Southern States less than dollar week. Interest on hs
price and cost Of keep row tn cost vice a much
In 1881. average al Lowell Massachusetts, IN the
factories for females ihry-three ceuts DAY for males
eighty cents clear of board or fifty two cents day TOT
females, and dollar twelve cents for males, WITHOUT
board II. Wages in l-lO precisely the sams there
The wages OF labor at Greenwich Hospital, England
for carpenters bsksyeTs and masous oed from A d.
1875 I..-. liroTa -. %. 70 5 per day
The weekly wages Of husbaDdry labor IN En- and n
100 were equal TO the price of fifty four pnts Of wheat
in $780, eghtytwo pns in 1892 20 ninety pats sixty
fOuT pnis make bushe
From William Penn's cash book appears that n loss
trequred g. days Of unskled labor 10 earn tun Of Hour
cash wages 80 cents day. In isuch a0oFer 81
Philadelphia could of -four IN :, days ASH
wages IS per day Flour was at the former Perio
Si5 3 ri the latter SO y per iun In,
Thus, in years in England, the wages Oh uhsAlhcd
labor had nearly doubled when estimated 10 "he"'. IN
cash thew had quite doubled and in nearly al other com
modiiies they had times multiplied their nominal
value Even in the year 1913 c0ttsgers sunday hat
cost 20 shiiugs, shllings shirt los 3D. now -
calico - I'd 3D. brown sugar lOd now ID. In I
years from leo i,i cotton cloth fell from IA - I'd
IN these years the price Of cloth diminished D. per cent
wages remaining in money price the same But what Is
more remarkable the money price Of all the British sud
Irish products and manufactures exported from Eng md
had fallen these II years foil m per cent The Eedu ion
continued stead Is till in l--0 81 90 would purchase
much Of al the articles which make mp the muiorm ex
ports OF Great Britain s94 would have purchased 30
years before Tne money wages remaining ths same the
real wages bad than doubled Ia 30 years IN perhaps
syery thin = but wheat and house rent.
The of women in the mted States, measured IN
H. same way have trebed since the year l-lshe peri
cd of the general introduction OF machinery into manuac
tories.
The wages Of husbandry in France have in like manner
trebed IN 80 wears. While the process OF doubling the
wages Of labor going on in England, the population
rose to fourteen millions.
The facts Of political economy mast have another and
hearing than the old school authorities could give
them Increase of population, and the unlimited nutph
cation products by the OF machinery do not depres
wages but tie contrary the Improvement OF the con
dou Of the aborer everywhere keeps even pace with all
such increase.
The laws which govern society better than the dsci
pies Of the dismal science ims-ne Lie Is NOT necessarily
a baftle nor is humanity failure We have, indeed
great deal learn hut have much hope for which
will in the fulness of time The present good OF
this faith L that thank God and take courage. l.