Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-04-05
DAILY WAGES.

DAILY WAGES.
BrichIayers.-Antwerp, Is. Sd. f; Meth
erlands Is. I'd; Saxony, 3s.; Louisiana,
United States, SO; Pennsylvania, 49,,
($4).
Carpenters. Antwerp, Is. 3D.; YER
viers, IF. Toe; Italy, Of; Venice, IS, 4d !;
Netherlands, Is. 4d.; Saxony, Sd; Lou
lsiana, United States, So. Pennsylvania,
lis ($275.)
Smiths.-Antwerp, Is. 3D., (5Sc y Yer
viers, 81, (56c) Italy, Of. Doc, (4Sc >
Venice, Is 3d., (60c;) Netherlands, Is.
4d, (32c } Saxony, 2s. 3d., (6Oc:) Louis
lana, United States, 81 /; Pennsylvania,
lis, t2.75.)
Let it be remembered that these wages
in many instances are from thirty to IF
ty per cent. more than they were only
few years back, and il will be easily un
derstood why some articles have been.
and yet can be produced abroad, not
with less labor, bat for less money than
in the United States. | would not give
to any branch of Industry in our country
such advantages as would enable it to
pay twice and thrice as much as can be
paid by agriculture or by comm cree for
an equal amount of labor, but would
preserve for all higher pay and more of
the comforts of life than we see by the
indubitable proofs here presented can be
extracted from the institutions and poll
cies of the Old World. Is there Sem
atof with proud and throbbing Amer
can heart in his bosom who would coun-
sci any measure tending to bring Amer
lean workmen down TO the level of that
large portion of the human race whose
pitiful wages and pitiful fare the report
of the British Parliament has SO recent.
ly and fully disclosed If our vantage
ground is not to be attributed largely to
the tariff, from whence does it come p
Mexico is part of the New Warld, but
what Of it? The republics of South
America are not very dissimilar in their
forms of government to our own, but
they do not excite our envy. Brazil and
the Argentine Republic are much fur.
ther away, but unattended by any dis
tincliye prosperity. The Dominion of
Canada is peopled by kindred race,
long ruled by free trade and not only
half protected, but do they lead the
world?
Make whatever liberal credits YOU
will, Mr.. President, and still the policy
of giving American wages therefor,
must have the foremost credit in the pro-
motion of the material prosperity of
workingmen which is the sure forerunner
of moral prosperity.
Mr.. Morrill, closed as follows:
Astute as well as puny critics may as
sail the perfection of some ailing section
OF law; theorists, as we'll as those who
should be statesmen, may denounce the
practical wisdom of some public func-
tlonary ; closet amateurs, and some leg
islators may coneoet ideal measures for
undiscovered Utopias, but it will be ad-
mitted by general acclamation that un-
der the present Administration, under
present laws, the revenues have been hon
estly collected aud honestly paid out
The fact that we have repealed since the
close of the war taxes yielding over two
hundred million dollars, and have in less
timepaid s300,0O0,O00 of the public debt
and now have surplus revenue to dis.
pose of amounting annually to $780,
100000 more, makes buckler too strong
to be pierced by the small wooden head
ed arrows of detraction, and will vindi-
cate the wisdom of the congressional en-
actments which brought about these
grand results, standing to our credit as
they will stand in all the pages of fu-
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