Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-12
WAGES N EUROPE.

| Among the many Gauss which operate
to send millions of laboring people born in
Europe, to this continent, low wsges in the
land of their birth may DO named az one of
the most general and persistent in It's infu-
ence. The human family multiples so
rapidly in Europe as greatly to depreciate
the value of white laboring men and women
In the most populous nations of that con-
tinent, which has nearly three hundred mil
lion souls as parental stock to breed from.
Like healthy hive of bees, it must, in the
course of nature, send out new colonies to
pastures Few wherein to feed and raise
yourg swarms, just as our population OF
less than four million in 1773 is now over
forty million in 1873. In lime, the Caucas-
ian race will occupy all the best parts OF the
baOitable globe, when the inferior races are
likely to yield both space and life to the force
of sn memorable law. Low wages is q GEN.
trifugal force for the diffusion of Europeans.
a reputable authority says:
"Sixty cents day is considered good
wages for a working man in any of the
European countries, except Great Britain,
where the wages are somewhat higher. In
the Tyrol silk region and in Italy, they often
do not get more than ten cents. In the
country in Germany ten cents is the COM
mon pay. Women there often get but five
cents. In Sweden, men often work from
four O'Clock in the morning till nine in the
evening, and do not get any more. During
the late war many poor women iu Berlin
were hired to knit stockings for the soldiers
for five cents. The profits of the poor who
keep petty shops, soil trinkets in the streets,
or act as suffers, do not average more than
three or four per cent. BARRIERS in Berlin,
since the raising of their prices, get five
cents for hair cutting and two and half
cents for shaving. Servants at hotels get
from three to eight dollars month. Ser.
want girls in private families often get but |
ten dollars year. Sometimes these classes
cannot get work at shy price,"
Educated white BARRIERS in Berlin (the
capital of the German Empire), "since the
raising of their prices" get five cents for
hair-cutting and two and a half cents for
shaving. The colored BARRIERS of Nashville |
ohN ObuOl OOOOhCAA CAbACS uOulQ DC unppJ
to see hsir-cutting and shaving sraised" to |
this European standard! While the Prus-
sian laborer, whether mechanic or not, |
gets from three 70 six times higher wages |
in Tennessee than in Berlin, it Is interesi- |
ing to know that q silver or gold coin will |
buy twice as much meat and bread in this |
city as in that. II these facts the reader |
has the essential elements of European en-
igration to America. Comfortable living |
always will be cheaper in our peculiar eli
mate, so favorable to corn and cotton, than
in the less fruitful climates of Europe. In
old times, men talked and wrote OF "the
fat of the land" without knowing much |
about the real sources of this STAT" Even
now the millions in this country Of free |
common schools, know next to nothing of
the ways and means by which American
rocks are able to yield some ten million
barrels Of oil, or vegetable animal fat,
year. This is a true American harvest |
without any farmer or cultivation.