The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-30
Agricultural.
The German Farm Laborer in His
Own Country.

Own Country.
Men who are born and educated in
one country are very apt to see only the
evils about them, and none of the adj
vantages. The following extract from
a letter to a foreign paper, the Scots
man, of Edinburg, viii interest our
readers, as serving to contrast the agri-
with those of our own:
A very large proportion of the Ger
man peasantry are indeed in much |
better condition than those in Britain /
are, or are likely to be, for great part |
of the land is possessed and cultivated |
by the peasantry themselves. In the |
meantime viii speak more particular
" in reference to those known in En-
gland as agricultural laborers, those
that are dependent upon other people
for employment. In many respects they
are far in advance of the British agricul-
tural laborers, alike politically and so
cially. There is here no obnoxious dis
tinctions of rights and privileges be-
tween country and town. The same
universal suffrage exists In both. But
right, which he values more than that
| of a voice in the national government,
is that of acquiring piece of land of
| his own. He has the disadvantage of
! less thorough education than the urban
workman, but his duties are also of
simpler nature and he always learns
at least to read, write, and cast up sums,
and to ''fear God and honor the king
50 that his education is equal at least
to the best that is to be obtained in En-
gland, Scotland, or any average agricul-
| tTral district. In social life the Ger
man laborer's manners are consistent
with his humble station in life. He is
less skeptical than the native of the
town, and shows great reverence and
respect towards his superiOrs. On
meeting stranger in the public road
he generally lifts his hat and salutes
him with a Sc Gluten morgen, or 60 Guten
tag" He still maintains a reverence
for the church and religion, in contra
distinction to the "gottlosikeit Ego
lessness) of the civic population, and
conducts himself like a God-fearing
man. He eats the,,simplest food, and it is
seldom that either beef or mutton come
to his table, By far the greater part of
the German population being engaged
in agricultural pursuits, the compare
lively small consumption of animal
food in Germany to that in England Is
thus explained, for, from what 1 have
seen, the towns people eat quite as
much animal food here as in Britain. 1t
is notorious fact that the German
l peasant, from motives of frugality, sell
dom tastes animal meat, living almost
entirely upon vegetable food. He, how
ever, in common with the whole race, is
very fond of coffee. A very character
istic strike of farm laborers was report
l ed some time ago from Bavaria, in an
l agricultural newspaper, in which coffee
e instead of sour milk to breakfast was
e demanded. Their dress is also of 8
e plain nature; but I have never seen,
j either in town or country, a single rag
g ged person of either sex of the class
8 and on Sundays, if not engaged in work.
ing, he comes abroad in very decent and
substantial garments The women
q however, who are largely engaged IL
e outdoor agricultural work, are, think
D scarcely so well clad as those engaged
9 in the south of Scotland, similarly EN-
ployed. Their dresses are generally Of
a blue-spotted gingham; as regards
length, made with the greatest view tC
u economy of cloth and for the larger
: part of the year they dispense with
S boots and stockings, and wear no Other
S superfuous encumbrances to the free
d use of their limbs. Their dwellings are
i of plain brick, but neat and clean, an6
almost always covered with vines, anC
surrounded with neatly-kept gardens
all showing industry and frugality, and
bearing an air of comparative comfort
about them. Indeed, more frugal
) saving, industrious, and generally well
behaved class of people could not bt
found anywhere. They do not tast,
spirits, and though, of course, they
swiu considerable quantities of thei
t, famous lager beer, it never seems t.
take any effect upon their equilibrium
The German laborer is, indeed, neve
p burdened with an over supply of money
but on account of the large emigration
the demand for his labor is now grea
y enough to enable him to make a fai
e bargain with his employer; and he, too
like everybody else in Germany, ha
recently had increase to the remunera
ton for his labor. A farmer in tn
neighborhood of Leipsig, who cultivate
- land belonging to the town, told m
) that he paid his female labOrers at tn
:" rate of 10 groschen (1s.) per day, ant
his male ones at % groschen (nearly Is
24d.) This, however, does not seem t
- be the case throughout the whole O
- Germany. Wages are not always pai
IL in money, there being what is Gale
i Natural " and Geldlohnung, tn
former meaning that, like the kinds an
~ shepherds in Scotland, they are partl
Il paid with other materials, though tn
/, tendency of the present day Is towar
a the abolishing of this system, and til
a adoption of pure money bargain, an
n this according TO the wish of the en-
l. ployers and not of the employed. /
10 the old provinces of Prussia there we1
N employed of the two classes-namely
at Gesinde people engaged yearly, VIII
a 1--we IN the employers establishment
and Taglohmen chose engaged for shol
IN periods, and paid at so much day, br
* living entirely apart from the premise
,e of the employer.
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