The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-03-07

The 1sts Of wages Of Farm Labo
II 2Nxasaa,sd ss.ns han,
has been wrought In this country whic
may we'll challenge the admiration I
the civilized world, and al that has bee
scoogpl1oedA ~ dlrect ssae q !
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II hid 1o{ p(6 1ucj[ q o&ne pr -
b 10 lsnlele.ss g
Only one branch Of agricultur1 In
dustry is to be considered q tafs time
Farm workgss4Nheg1 afnspsPrie
tom. Scarcely a5ss nan ons-@hrh o
those who obtain their living by agricul
ture, ID m gconntry, hire out their scr
vice to 31fn fol- 4 monthly or oths1
consideration. 1t Is of this class that {
systematic course Of inquiry In even
State and rsisite'y hss scen maos, and
1t Is, As IL believed, the first attempt Of
the kind ever made here. .
the result shows an increase of the rates
of wages in five years amounting to
about fifty per cent. This is less than
the indleslsS Of the cost Of living; sttli tl1s
purchasing power of . months wages is
probably greater than in any other coun-
Try in tbs. WORLD Farm laborers, espe-
cially stAes VEST can nlqy more a tie
comfotdkAk 1fa and attain ! hle1ersaak
in the social scale, than those Of any
other country. They do not obtain the
$1,000. - - nrhn Utrr and rkRsnp
classes, perhaps bette entitled to b.
considered skilled laborers, yet they en-
joy an aarantage which Is partial COM
pensation, Ia lower rents and cheaper
subsistence supplies, and fewer temptar
tions to extravagance and waste.
In view Of the superior condition Of
the class. In comparison with rural la
borefs In other countries, 1t is not
strange that the European peasant sho'd
covet such, advantages, and seek them
even at the expense Of exile nom the
fatherland.
Ln,migydtion.-It Is . suggestive fact
that the immigration Of millions of for
eignogs has not, as native laborers once
feared, proved serious competition, re-
Aucing the rates Of wages. On the con-
trary it has advanced great public works
which have opened new and wider
fields Of industry, and has pushed the
native laborer into the artisan ranks and
the sphere Of skilled labor, with higher
wages, more exercise of mind, and less
of muscle than before. When it is re-
membered that In 1860 there were 4, 1885,
It's foreign residents, and at least s, OOO,-
600 at the present time, or one-seventh
ofthe population, and a still larger pro-
portion of the actual labor Of the coun-
try, this result must be acknowledged to
be convincing evidences of the great re-
sources ana vast power of labor absorp-
ton possessed by the United States.
Increase Of rate of ,cages.-More than
thirty years ago Mr. II C Carey made the
following estimate of the average Of ag-
ricultursA labor. in this country: "Ag-
ricultpNf lator has not varied n,assri-
riallyNin these forty years in its money
price; but the variation that has taken
place has been in Its fayor-the wages Of
men have been very steadily about nine
dollars per month and their board; but |
higher wages ara now not very unusu-
al" The average for white labor at the
present time, as presented in the accom-
panyi ing tables, Is fairly stated at SIS per
month, or nearly $15, 80 AMI board. This
indicates on advance of seventy per cent.
IN the lapse Of a generation, mostly in the |
last six years, or fifty per cent. since
1861.
SEARCHING TIE SCRlPruREs.-The
late lamentcd Henry Inman used to re-
late with inimitable effect a story of an
illiterate minister at the west, who one
night at class meeting mentioned the
following affecting circumstances: ut
is little while-ah, since l was a-travel
iink along one Of your great rivers-ah,
surrounded by the deep forest; I stopped
ut a rude shanty by the lower river side
ah, and there ] found a poor family In
great-ah afilictioM ala. They We're all
sick; their children were shiverink and
starving; their heads irowzy and dirty;
and was Informed by the mother that
they had lost their fine tooth con,b-dh!-
They were ignorant of the go-ospel, and
didn'tseem to care about it 'ither; for
when l seasoned with em-al, tho wo-
man Mas always lamcnting their fine
tooth comb-ah! Have you the Bible in
your cabin? said l to her, says Lab; says
she, Yes, theer it is, up theer Oh the
catch allah, printing to narrow shelf
over the smoky fireplace, but we don't
often read into Utah; hain't read any
ont but once't, when our little Bill died
with the ager, for as much as tew
months -ah!' l got onto a die-tub, my
friends, that stood in the corner, and
reached up and took down the bless ed
Book, all covered with dust-ah! What
do you thiak it uds that found there
all, to satisfy the longings Of that poor
woman-ah? 1t was the long lost, long
wanted f!ne-toothe c-oo-m-b-ah! Oh,
my hearers, s'-a-a-r-c-h the skripters-dh!
If she had only SEARCHED the skripters
how her mind would 'a-been eased-ah!"
A FLORIDA BRIGADE's FIRST SIGHT
nr SNn,y of the most amusing