Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-03-14
We now come to the West where we na
.urally expected a better state of things:

We now come to the West where we na turally expected better state of things:
 Ouo.-Lucas, Richland CO.,, Jan. 2l.-I. Per day, 30 cents and board Nearly all winter, work is by the day. IT, I propose Sl3 through the sum mer, and board III. Likely to advance. w. | We are necessitated to hire more than we could get last year. V. Farmers would employ more at a moderate reduction of wages as ten laborers are wanted to where there is here. Farmers do without help, because they cannot afford to pay more than at present. There seven vacant tenant houses near me, the owners of which want laborers to occupy them. If there are any idle farm aborers in the city, let them come here-Jas. l V. Thompson.
 MIcHlGAs-LakeriLe, Oakland CO.,, Jun. 23.-I. Per day, 50 cents and board. Per month, by the year, for good hands, SIP, and board and washing. II. For do Sl3, from March l, for nine months. | By the year, we think good hands will be Sl0 to Sl3. III. Same. " About as last year. V. | Good hands are scarce and always in demand at l these prices, and pay certain.-H. $. Hulick Co.,
 WIscoxsIN.-S. H. Slaymaker, of Rock county, writes from Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 3, of wages in | Wisconsin. l. am paying Sl4o year and board H. will pay after April $l0 month. III. From the number seeking employment, wages are likely to be lower. ". Farmers will not employ | more hands. V. A lower rate would not generally induce farmers to hire more laborers with us
 ILLINoIs-Joliet Jun. lS.-I. I furnish house and fuel and pay $I4 month. Per day, 5o cents | and board or 75 cents without. II. Not over $ll per month for eight months. III. Wages will be l rather lower. ". Less than last season. V. If wages were lower, few farmers would employ more-the majority would not. These answers will apply to the whole vest with slight variations | HI. Rowell.
 Momenee, Kankakee, Jan 23.-Byron N. Me Kinstry says: 1. Per day Soc. per month SS to Sl0 and board, in winter. II. For eight months, SlO to SI4, average SIP; per year, Sl20. ILL About the same. ". Ditto. V. Decidedly, yes; many more, if wages were not so high that we can make nothing by employing hands. Our laborers are mostly Germans; good Americans would get more. Women get from Sl to g week.
 l . Ppaiafeld Hendrirks co.--John C. Walton says: | I. Per day, 50c; per month, $l0 and board. II. Per winter, Sl5. III Likely to be lower. ". 1 think more than last year. V. If wages were low CT, farmers would employ more than they have for several years.
 Enoch N Adams of Sterling, Wayne CO.,, Jan. g, says: paid last season 62i cents day, and will pay next summer, for good, faithful men, SIP a month"; for eight months.
 Jacob R. Heap, Camden, Carroll co Jan. p, says: I. Per day, 50 cents; per month, Sl0 and board in winter. H. l propose to pay SIP to SD and board during the summer. III. Likely to be the same w. I think more. V Undoubtedly I.they would Many of the idle men in your city could find employment here at reasonable wages not at the above wages of experienced hands,
 These extracts are sufficient for our pur- pose. It must be borne in mind that very little work is done in winter. During the indictment season and when everything need ed by family costs most, the laborer can not find employment. Admitting that no sickness prevents him from steady labor and he receives the highest rates, we find that laboring man can receive from a hundred to hundred and forty dollars a year. Out of this, if married man, he has to pay rent, support family and edu- cate his children Land is from s0O to $500 an acre, and if he was as saving as I.ewes or any other miser, he could not, in a long lifetime save enough to buy himself and family home. Here, besides the fact that laborcr commands dollar to a dol lar and a half a day, that so far as board is concerned no difference is made, 1t is in the power of every man to own farm. In all neighborhoods 1t is the custom to helE the new comer or settler to raise his house NStiAN'
 and then few acres will yield enough corn to supply the family and raise swine. The woods afford game and our streams are full of fish, In Arkansas no man need be poor. In fact, poverty as understood at the North, is almost unknown here. The soil is to be had for mere pittance, the woods and streams furnish food even to those indis- posed to work while, if the poor man here will work half as hard as the poor white man at the North is compelled to work or starve. he will be surrounded with home and its comforts, and be an owner of the soil. And this should be the aim of every man. Of our male population, out of the cities, the number is surprisingly small who do not own land. A glance at our tax books will show that ma ority of the men in Arkansas are owners of real estate, and of those who do not own 1t, nine tenths of them, could, in week own tract of land And this independence, these privi- leges and these prices, the people of the South are asked to give up and assume the places of the white slaves at the North, who working for mere pittance are called exorbitant and questions propounded as to the best way still further to reduce their wages. Let it not be thought that their labor is as light as their pay. On the con trary, they spring to it from daybrcak un- til dark and toll more severely than any negro in the South.
 So it will be ever. There will be two classes-thc master and the slave-the en- ployer and the employed In the South, the lower class is those whom nature in tended to be servants At the North 1t is those of their own color anl very often men and women of superior education and requirements. Their scrvitude is the more oppressive and the more galling, because it is the debasemcnt of an equal-the servi- tude of the negro is his normal state and he is happiest when protected and provid- ed for by the superior race.
 "The same Old Song"
 Speaking of Hindman the old Line De- mocrat says:
 Well may the True Democrat be sickened when