Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-07-09
BUCHANAN AND LOW WAGES.

1856, or Niles Register vols. 81 and 6S,) in
which the following passages occur r.
"In Germany, where the currency is purely
metallic, and the cost of everything is REDuc-
ED to hard money standard, piece of broad
cloth can be manufactured for fifty dollars, the
manufacture of which, in our country from the
expansion of paper currency would cost one
hundred dollars What is the consequence 2
The foreign French and German manufacturer
imports this cloth into our country and sells it
for a hundred. Does not every person per-
ceive that the redundancy of our currency is
equal to premium Of one hundred per cent.
IN favor of the manufacturer
"No tariff of protection, unless it amounted
to prohibition, could counteract these adyan-
tages in favor of foreign manufactures
would to heaven that could arouse the atten-
tion of every manufacturer of the nation TO
this important subject.
"Wbat is the reason that, with all these ad-
yantages and with the protective duties which
our laws afford to the domestic manufacture of
cotton, we cannot obtain exclusive possession
of the home market, and successfully contend
for the markets of the world 1t is simply
because we manufacture at the nominal prices
of our own inflated currency, and are compel
led to sell ut the real prices of other nations.
RzDucE OUR NOMINAL STANDARD OF PRICES
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND YoU COVER OUR
COUNTRY WITH BLESSINGS AND BENEFITS.
s.The comparative Low PRICES of France
and Germany have afforded such a stimuIous
to their manufactures, that they are now rapid
ly extending themselves, and would obtain
possession, in no small degree, even of the
English home market, If 1T WERE NOT FOR
THEIR PROTECTIVE DUTIES. While British man
ufactnres are now languishing, those of the
continent are springing into Q healthy and
vigorous existence
Having thus given Mr.. Buchanan's own
smooth and polished language, let us see what
is the meaning Of it in plain English, when he
says ssreduce our nominal standard of prices
throughout the whole world, and you cover
the country with blessings and benefts.''-
language, if he meant anything, but that our
standard of prices should be reduced to that
of the hard money currency of Europe Aud
what is the European standard then, to which
he desired our own to be reduced! Accord
ing TO the best authorities on that subject,
Porter,s Progress and Wade's History of the
Middle and Working Classes, two recent pub
lication's, containing statistics collected by
the British Government, the standard of pri-
ces for labor in Europe, is as follows -
Wages in FTance.-Calais common laborers
I'D, per day. with board, and without dwell
ling Boulogne, sd. per day, do. do: Nantes
Sd, per day, without board and without dwell
ling; Marseilies. i'd. to I'd. per day with board
and without dwelling. The food in some dis
tricts ''consists in rye bread, soup made of
millet, cakes made of Indian corn notc aud
then some salt provisions and vegetables rare
", if ever, butchers meat.' In others sswheat-
en- bread, soup made with vegetables, and
little grease or lard twice a-day, potatoes, or
other vegetables, but seldom butchers meat -
Sueden.-s'The daily wages of skilled ag-
riculturist are id. or Sd. while the unskilled
obtain 10 more than Sd. or I'D. and board
themselves. Agriculturists in the southern
provinces live upon salt fish and potatoes in
the northern provinces, porridge and rye bread
form their food.''
Bararia.-ssLaborers are paid at the rate of
Sd. per day, in the country without board.
BetgiUm.-ssA skilled artizan may earn in
Summer, Is. 2. to Is. Sd. in Winter, from
1Od- to Is. 3D.; unskilled, half as much, with
out board; live upon rye bread, potatoes, and
milk" Agricultural laborers have less.
Germany--"Dantzig, laborers, A. I'd. to I'd.
ger day, without board; Muhlburg, I'd. per
day, without board; Holstein, I'd. per day,
without board.''
.Netherlands.-South Holland laborers, Sd.
to 4d. per day, with board North Holland,
20d. per day, without board Antwerp sd. per
day, do; West Flanders, 96s, to los per
per year, with board.''
HGly.-'sTrieste laborers, I2d. per day, with
out board; do. Cd. per day with board; Istria,
Sd. to lOd. per day, without board do 4d to
sd. per day, with board Lombardy, 4d. to Sd
day, do; Genoa, sd. to Sd. per day, do, and
without lodgings; Tuscany, Sd. per day,with-
out either.
Sarony.-s.In 1887 man employed in his
own loom working very diligently from Mon
day morning to Saturday night, from O'Clock
in the morning until dusk, and even at times
with lamp, his wife assisting 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 children
aged II years and upwards, all working at the
loom as well as himself, with his wife employ
ed doing up the work, earn in the whole more
than 81 weekly"
These are facts which speak for themselves
This is the doctrine of James Buchanan, in
1910. Ten cents is about the average stand
ard of European labor. And it is to this
standard he wished ours to be reduced. How
do you like it, We honest laboring men of
Pennsylvania
ssNIoGERIsN."-There is blackyuardism
in politics specially In vogue among the loco
focos, which induces them to denominate all
efforts against the extension of slavery as
''niggerism." In our city, ii was not indigo
nous, but was imported here from Virginia by
a miserable spiritual rapping, vagabonding fel-
low, who is now telling Pennsylvania demo-
Gratis how they must vote to please the slave
power But the only real specimen Of "nig-
gerisn." or negro worshipping we have seen
is to be found among the laws framed by the