The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-07-21
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Tie Avpsrs ~sgss u ag1caliu'al
iatorrr, ,a Esgisnd ia's year. s-rs for.
~ crn,s daF The ~sf,t q barney
u,as csu-ti,r, so~ in Waterford. Ifc-
land sfe ,istis.ii.rrv ccuif dsy
H. C.mi., Isd.a ihs -ssc. q a Geld
laiorcf 81, no~ "a c,ais = ia, .hr Cob.
i1g Ltesa t.gi sonen receive Is
aod hos, 8 c.nts -- Howe servants Afr
beuu ta,d. aa1 ihey are compelled TO
veaf hrtief cloibe-
1hhfy yesr ago Geld lal,orcr cot
iit osner IN il,e Southern STATES lcs.
ii.aa dollar ~c,s. tinteress on bis
luice sod c,s, u kccpins.j nov the cot
l. t~ios a. much.
IT, 1871. average va-c, at Lowell
Mas IN ibc factories. for females,
,l'uy cents day. fof males.
eighty crni.. clear 81 hoard or hhy.
tao crni, dsr for females. ard one
dollar Twelve cents for mal,.. without
board Tnc vases in 1870 we're pre-.
c,s,ly shc ,sms their.
The wages Of labor 1t Grcenvich
Hospital. England, for carpenters. brick
layer ani masons. doubled from 1885
to 1928. iron p CT pet dny to b.
1h~ weekly wages o. hB.haudry Ia.
bor 10 England. 10 1900. were equal to
the price q iAy-four pinis d when,
IN 1890. TO eighil.i~o pint.. in 1882,
10 ninety piots. (6i pinls make.
bushcll
From Wm. Pcnns cash book. it APP
pears iha, in 1869, !, required 81 day.
u unskiilcd labor 10 earn a ton of -four
cash wages at 80 cents a day. In
1884, such laborer a, Philadelphia,
could earn ton Of -four in 7S days
cssh wages 55cis per day. Flour wa.
at the former period 1854; at the
latter 1882 per ton.
Thus. in 1872 years in England, the
wages Of Unskillcd labor has nearly
doubled when estimated IN whcn--in
cash they had quite doupled, and in
nearly all other commodities they had
many times multiplied their nominal
value. Even IN the year 1913, a cot
iasrrs Sunday ha, cost POS, now Is; n
sbir los Cd, now SIS calico IS %, now
Cd; brown sugar l0i, now ID. Ia IA
years, from 1920 to 1884. cotton cloth
fell from ~ 3-ii 10 81. Ia these year,
The price Of cloth diminished nfiy.one
per cent, wage. remaining in money
/ price the same. But what is more re-
mnrkablc, the money price Of all the
British and Irish productions and man.
u'ac,urcs exported from England had
fallen IN these IA years full forty per
| cent. This reduction continued stead.
lily till 1880, 81, 63 would purchase as
much Of these articles which make up
the muliiiorm exports OF Great Britain,
n s94 would have purchased thirty
! years before. The money wages r..
naming the same---thc real wages had
more than doubled within thirty years
IN every thing but wheat and house
I rent.
The wages Of women in the United
States measured in the same way. have
trebled since the year lsl5-lhc period
OF the general introduction Of rnachin.
cry into manufactures.
The wages Of husbandry in France
have in like manner treblrl in 1870
years. While the process Of doubling
the wages Of labor was going ON in
England, the population rose TO four
teen millions.
The facts Of political economy must
have another and fairer hearing than
ihc old school authorities could give
them. Increase Of population and the
unlimited multiplication Of products by
the use Of machinery, do no, depres.
wages but on the contrary, the improve.
menI Of The condition Of the laborrr
everywhere keeps even pace with all
such increase.
The laws which govern society are
better than the Disciples Of the dis.
NAL science imagine. Life i. no, nee.
esssrily battle, nor is humanity a fail.
ure. We have indeed great deal 10
learn bot ~e have a' much to hope for,
~h'ch will come IN the fullnc,s Of time.
The present good OF ihi, faith Is, that
VIC can thank God and take courage.
fLoWING AID MANURING. Soil.
are - dlfrrrnilv .l.n,ti.l,lll 81 l..