Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-30
HIGH wAGEs--POOR WAGES.

In q country like this, where compare |
lively few work for daily wages, people |
sometimes look upon the day lsborer
with something akin to contempt. But
no greater error was ever thought Of.
Indeed. we are indebted to the daily
laborer, working in unison with the tai
ent and skill which assists him, for all
the great Improvements railroads, can
ais. sailing craft, buildings, etc. The
question, then, of high wages, poor
wages, is an interesting one, and was the
theme of lecture by Charles Bradlaugh,
at the Cooper Institute, in New York.
fortnight since. We append the follow
ing from the New York Herald's report;
All the speech have to make, turns
upon four words high wages, poor
wages. Poor wages means wretched
dwellings, the rum shop more inviting
than home, and the wife not SO good.
tempered as she ought TO be. In Ireland
ninepence q day is paid for labor, and
here some American laborers receive 50
Der day. The mere nominal wages re-
ceiyed in London, Paris and New York,
are not proper criterion of the rate The
price paid for the necessaries OF life must
be taken into account. But this can
saw, all wages are low wages which do
not give to a man good food, clothing
and a comfortable home. Any wages
which does not give him time to think,
to love and to study men and books, Is
too low. A high wage which gives an
opportunity for accommodating reserve
fund is the remedy with which you meet
disease, as well as the whole train Of
evils which grow up from poverty. The
great, crying evils which exist in the cit
les of the Old World are not to be found
here. How long it will be SO depends
upon yourselves. 1t does not depend Oh
your Government or on your milllonalres
but workingmen, say on yourselves.
do not say that the Rothschilds or Aston!
are not charitable, but do say that char
ity is a word which the workingmer
should wish to see eradicated from thu
language. The inanciers tell US tha
they know the value of money. / hay'
no doubt they do; but against the value
of money plead for the value of life, tn
value of bright eyes and smiling children
In such time as this, in what is called
panic, the suffering comes where 1t
least able to be borne. l see that SOM
Of the working men are asking the Gov
eminent to aid them. Working mel
who ask the Government to aid ther
are disgrace to the Republic 70
are the guardians of the nation.
it is not as you want it, if thing
do not go just as you want them to,
say it to your faces that you are to blGm
and it is your disgrace. Here you q
have political power, and it is disgrat
for citizen Of this great republic to SO
to an Englishman that the GovernmCl
falls into the hands of cliques. say
you, do better first complain afterward
Don't be selfish. When a man stanC
up among you and offers ideas which a
different from yours, honor him for h
courage and brains. Anybody can no
with the current q stick can do this
Be able to swim for your life and to he
the weak ones by your side. The repr
sentatives of monopolies should not
allowed representation in the Congre
halls of this or any other country. Y
have no right to tell me that men in t
Legislatures sell their votes to these L
nopolies. 1t is you who put them the
YOU who keep them there. Put t
brand of scarlet on every mans br
who sells himself, make him a poiiti
leper, whose life shall be worthless a
rotten forever afterward. This will st
bribery in your Legislatures. The VOL
ingmen are told to have patience.
tience! Who says patience to starv
man? Hunger knows no patience.
blasphemy to a mother who has sevt
starving children at her side.