The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-26
FEET GERMANY.
Cost of Living. Manufaetures--Ame
lean STOCKS.

York:
Mechanics wages are about fifty
cents per day. In Frankfort an income
of &, 600 enables IA man to live hand
somely and keep his carriage and
horses, thing not justitiable on less
any commercial city in America.
"There are considerable woolen fac
tories, and indeed, factories of all kinds
in this region. German rivers are com
monty small and with little fall of WA
ter, and where feeble water-power,
which might answer four months of the
year, exists, it is not economical on the
whole to use 1t. All the mills, therefore,
are run by steam. met yesterday the
hands from mill returning two or
three miles to the village where they
lived, from their daily work. 1t is plain
that the science and the cheap labor OF
the continent, especially in Belgium
and Germany, are going give Eng
land very serious rivalry in textile
and iron manufactures. Coaland iron,
by the existing railroad systems, are
now brought very closely together, and
IL is found more economical 10 carry
them both TO the labor, than to bring
labor to them. Some English capital
lists are erecting iron works in Germany
to save themselves from the ruinous
competition OF her cheap labor.
lHa one llluk ADOuL E-uRllSu
manu- ufacturing capital which deserves
special commendation. 1t depends
upon increase of skill and adaptation
ito circumstances to secure its returns,
and does not expect that-the govern
ment will fly to its rescue with an ex-
'travagant tariff the moment 1t disCov-
ers miscalcuIation in its plan. In
America every petty local interest or
private manufacture, the moment it
finds its l.chosen business incapable
of contending with the competition OF
countries favored by cheaper labor and
better skill, hurries to Congress and
demands n protection which costs the
nation perhaps a million or two of dol
lars in enhanced prices for the encour-
agement of a branch of manufactures
which may not have a half million of
capital engaged in it in the whole coun-
try. This is most unjust and Oppres
sive, and ought to be frowned on by
the common sense of the people. If we
cannot practice an economy and skill,
such as all other countries have to use,
In sustaining fair competition with
their neighbors, our manufacturing in
terests will suffer and ought TO suffer
when they undertake branches of busi-
ness to which our climate and our cir
cumstances are wholly unadapted. .
"Americaus have IL great natural
aptitude for ingenious machinery, for
tion, and for Intelligent industry. We
ought to encourage and to depend far
more than we do upon this resource,
but our seCent legislation is positively
discouraging this quality, and foreign
Industry looks with smiling self-con-
graduation upon the folly which is
undermining gourprogress aud improve
meut, by accustoming our manuiac-
lures to artificial protection, while it
debilitates skill, prudence and economy
in production. t.
"American government stocks are in
large and increasing demand in Ger
many, aud they are purchased not on
speculation but for investment. The
area over which they are rapidly
spreading is already very large. Or
ders come in to the franklin Bourse
every day, not only from all parts of
Germany and Switzerland, but from
Austria, Hungary, and even Moldavia.
In short, they seem the favorite Sc
curity ut this time. The general esti-
mate of the Frankfort bankers of the
amount of these stocks now held on the
continent, is not less than five hundred
millions. So scarce are they that de-
mand for two hundred Thousand n day
would raise the market price of them.
Probably if they should rise to ninety
per cent. some would be sent back to
America. The amount OF them Is pretty
hhO"h w Ihu VI
coupons sent to Frankfort, the moneyed
centre OF American securities, for col
lection. Fs aaS4 81 4L .har
"Baron Rothchild, of Paris, is now
here with two of his brothers. Their
great house, it is said, does not deal in
American Bonds. The Baron Ohe
eldest brother, for they are all barons,
I believe,) is man of eighty, but in
excellent preservation, and commonly
to be seen at the spring early in the
morning, looking as cheerful, unpre-
tending, and simple, as if neither age,
nor vast affairs, nor honOrs and emolu-
ments were resting on his shoulders.
He dresses rather young, has light
and un-Jewish complexion; and is
specially gallant and disengaging in his
manners. His Intercourse with his
grandchildren (young ladies) Is partic-
ularly charming.
THE Pooh NEEDLE woMEN-Ihen
Wages in Neto York.-The New York
Sun is showing how the needle women
in that city are paid. After remarking
that the average wages of even the most
skilled do not exceed So per week, it
adds:
In order to earn even that much a
woman must be skilled in some partic-
ular branch OF sewing. Those who have
no specialty-who have not had expe-
rience in the class of work that they
engage to perform-cannot obtain as
much in the average as five dollars a
week. How these poor creatures man
age to live is a mystery that we cannot
penetrate. Many of them have helpless
children to support, others have aged
parents to provide for, and all are the
victims ofpoverty. During the lasttwo
or three weeks we have daily published
on mir tHatinn9 from
the question ofsaving money. Among
the writer's of those letters are many
who receive from Sl5 to 800 per week,
and who yet argue that they can barely
support themselves on such salaries.
Now, If a young man, free and without
incumbrance, can barely get along with
Sl5 per week, how can woman live on
one-third of that sum Think OF a
sewing woman with two or three help
less children, eking out an existence on
IS per week Yet there are many who
do 1t. Within a stones OF Broadway,
with its beauty, wealth and extrava-
gance. there are many poor women
toiling early and late, for IS a week.
we can Imagine how that pittance
must be doled out Suppose the sew
ing woman who receives 1t is widow,
with child or two to support. For
rear room in the OF a filthy tenement
house, she will be obliged to pay 81 so
per week. Her outlay for the same Pc
riod will be about 20 cents for bread
one small loaf each day; so cents for
potatoes; 80 cents for meat bones; 25
cents for light 10 see by at night; so
cents for coal to keep from freezing; so
cents for clothing; % cents for all 9TH
er expenses. And then she must
stitch, stitch, early and late-no eight
hour or ten hour system for her. II
herself or child be taken sick, how shall
she provide medicine or employ ply
siciAn2 an INSCRIPTIONS employer
finds imaginary cause for Withholding
her wages, as is frequently the s, case