Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-21
[From the Cincinnati Times
Eight Hours Day--G0uDtry Homes
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We wrote Yesterday about the neces
sity Of the Eight hour Rule 70 enaese
the mechanics of our over crowqsu c.''e
TO reside in the country. The HOUSE ~
the Ohio Legislature has passed : o'.'
rl;n,;t;ng .he da7's work to eight hours,
h1 la7oe majority, and 1t will become
,bsn remains for the mechan-
,"" hove the rule practically estab-
l ~ ~ - he shops, ghich can very easily
isn 49, II remains to be seen whether
= - 800 a done without any reduction of
~anas We hope it can, because the
~sges they now obtain are low enough
n All conscience. tbs probable that
majority would prefer to labor ten hours,
if there must be reduction of pay; be-
cause they cannot afford to labor at all
for less than they now receive. Wages
should rise rather than fall. Whether
the employers could afford it, we have
not the facts TO show, except in our
Eastern manufactures, whose profits are
sufficient to afford considerable ad
vance.
We refer to this subject to- day for the
purpose of showing the economy and
other advantages of residing in the
country. Should wages go down in spite
OF all the labor-unions to keep them up,
the difference can be three times made
up by a country residence, which under
the eighthour rule will be entirely prac-
ticable.
In the firstplace, any one of the labor
unions can purchase two hundred acres
on one of our railroads, within twenty
miles of the city, at about $3.50 per acre.
They could then sub-divide the tract
| into. Eve acre lots, with convenient
streets, public squares, &c. This would
afford at least thirty five lots which could
be sold to members at auction, so that
those who chose to pay the difference
could get the best lots. This difference
would build good school house on the
public square. There would be thirty
five mechanics with their families in the
village, and they could have such regula-
t;ons as they pleased as to liquor selling,
&C., thus securing as decent commu-
nifty as they may desire. No lot should
be sold to any one who would not pledge
himself to put up house within enc
year. II need not cost more than the
mechanic can pay out of his first and
second years wages by close economy.
In the second place, the accommoda-
ton train will stop at any such village
anywhere on either of the roads, for the
number to come to the city every morn
| ing would make it an object with the
railway. The cost per quarter will be
from $l2 10 $40, according to the dis
lance, if not more than 20 miles
/ T. Al IL IL hat he
omies of such q residence They con-
sist chiefly of what the place should pro-
duce and the saving of rent.
l.. The chickens, for eggs and meat,
will be worth at least fifty dollars per
year.
81 2. The COW will be worth at least 800
a year. There will be an average of six
quarts of milk per day through the year.
During summer season butter for the
family, and to lay up for the cows va
cation, will be made. To purchase one
quart Of poor milk daily in the city will
cost at least $35 per year. The butter
of family at the lowest. calculation,
amounts to $40 per year in the city
Then the remainder of the milk from a
COW in the country, both for family use
duu W ldtbCA d RAR4 Will hAAOuuh ~ VIC
remainder of the $780, One acre of the
lot should be pasture, and on another
acre the winter food of the COW could be
raised. The balance of the lot should
produce all the vegetables of the family,
and corn for the chickens, COW and pig
8. The saving in vegetables would be
at least $50 per year. The potatoes,
both sweet and Irish, of family, at SOC.
per bushel, would amount to SIS. Then
there are all the other vegetables, the
value Of which each can calculate for
himself. aA so9 .He II 3
4. The saving of rent would be, at
low calculation, 500 per year, and of
water $40. s Wf -
5. Then in two or three years there
would be a saving of $40 in the small
fruits, raspberries, currants, &c, that
should be grown by eoch one. When
produced on the place the family would
consume four times this value of fruit,
but we count only what is generally
spent for this article in the city by the
working classes. 3E9
6. The saving of Doctors bills, by
reason of better health in the country,
would be at least 500 more.
The whole amount thus calculated is
$3.50 To Offset this is the blowing and |
putting in the little crops, which would
be about $50. The family can supply
much of the labor to attend them. Fifty
dollars should cover the whole expense
of hired labor on such lot, provided
the family would do what the health will
require.
Then call the railway expense $50
per annum, taxes $40, and school bills
800, and we have a clear economy of
1920 for country residence
We have estimated everything low, as
each one will see by calculating for him
self. This would in two years pay for
. neat little cottage OF two rooms with a
sumner kitchen, to which additions
might be made, as circumstances should |
permit. Living in the country ourself,
We have probably far und Grated the
mark Of expenses in the city. Let each
70 and figure for himself. lie the sub.
ect be agitated in all the Unions. We
ave put the land at high price to in
Iure good soil, and suitable site for
. town. We hope our mechanics will
20 inspired with the idea of indepen-
ience. The more they save, the less
viii others make out of them.
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