, 1874-01-25

| lowing is one OF the resolutions adopted: "Ihat
this conferences, having duly considered the pres
| present method Of taxing food is pernicious in
| its incidence, unjust in OF Grafton, repng-
| nant to tho best interests Of society,
and injurious to trade. commerce, and
document, find that the produce to the rove.
| nue., from tea and sugar alone, ls, IN round
numbers, 10000. 600 per annuu1. Surely, Mr.
| Il. must be blinded BY prejudice, otherwise he
would not talk abont Free-Trade Yorkshire.
But hope longer stay in our Great Republic
will be the meaus OF converting him into good
! citizen OF the United States, the peer OF any
nation in the world. am, yours, very respect
| fully. ). d1LIoRE.
| More About Yorkshire and Chicago.
To lie Editor Of Tie Chicago Tribune:
! SrR: l have read with much interest the cor
rcspondence for several weeks past on the
"Labor Question in TIE Tribune. Some very
good things and some very silly ones have been
said. One last Sunday headed ''Yorkshire vs..
| CHICAGO seems to me (who am an Englishman)
to have been written with view to republica-
ton in Yorkshire where it may have the ef-
feet Of keeping some grumblers at home, for
which We
+: OUGHT TO BE TRULY THANKFUL.
| Mr.. Hcndry is rough on capitalists, and, as
belong to- that unfortunate olaes,>1 feel called
upon to say word in their defense, Ny capi-
I tai, like many others since October, 1871, con-
sists in my character for honesty, sobriety, and
energy, Now, e. Gays the capitalist who has
the privilege Of his services and who is supposed
tto get three-fourths or the lion g share" pro-
posed to reduce lis wages to 81 per day. I have
never offered "a it.le "a that, believing that the
| mau who 1B not worth more
| IS WORTH NOTHING.
| Mr. e. does not like to pay rent in advance.
| Lavo not been asked to do SO for many years.
| Wing should landlords make this distinction be-
| tween Englislmcn and iorkshlremen?
He says he pays IS cents per pound for tough
| American beef. l. as capitalist get pretty
tough beef for to u conts. I can't Afford to
| be SO extravagant, ThiDking that all working
men were wasting money by paying those o1o1-
| found they could buy as cheap Us I do. Ono
| eaid II carried home last Saturday sheep
Weighing 50 pouads. for which paid e."
| In the scala Of wages given by Mr.. H.. take
smiths, $3.50 to S3.25 perday Yorkshire, 5.. g.
! per day. The American, At 1926, makes 1880
| per week; paEs 75 for lis board d,-loavlnS q
balance Of S14.50, or nearly is per cent moro
than the Yorkshircman gets for his services,
| viz: S940 per week. His other figures ara as
| oCTRAaEoUsLY RIDICULOUS.
He pays moro for everything than I do. I live
in an aristocratic neighborhood I conla sayo
| by marketing two miles from home. where work
| ing1nen generally trade.
| My axperiepcs among Yorkshiremen has led
me to tho conclusion that they are Sory clannish,
| and generally trade among their own nationality
almost exclusively. This may account Tor tho
high prices paid BY Mr. Hendry. If 80, would
| advise him to come out OF that crowd; trade
with Yankees, Dutchmen, or people of any other
| nationality; stop grumblug; learn that IN thesa
| La-d times he is Nd worse of than his neigh
bors as soon as spring opens, start out fully de-
termiued to be q capitalist, aud get " three
fourths. OF the lions shnre;' don't follow the
example Of that class who do not pay their
worhrnen; par yours promptly, no matter
whether you have the mouey or not; set an OK
ample for otEers to follow; and next winter you
| can
1uxuH1A7E on THE 'L1oS's STARE
md write home to Yorkshire. and tell the folks
that this country is improving fast; provisions
are much cheaper; capitalists don't Pay freight
on American flour, cheese, pork-" ETC.. any
| for less monoy than they can get for them in
Chicago. They have found out that. 1T t is I too
| thin.' E. G..
CHICAGO, Jan. q, 1874
| The EorikShirei1an and the 1ndf-
49,. yidual Who &t KouEilel 1t.s'
10 the Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:
| s1R There arc two articles in your issue Of
the 18th Of January that wonld like to say q
| few words about. Ono is headed YORKSHIRE
ys. Chicago" the other s* Roughing It in Chi
| caco" The first one tries to make out that it is
far more profitable for workingman to stay in
the Old Country than to come to this country. His
trEt complaint is that ho WAS offered 81 per day
! (when he probably expected So or ~ to work
and he then asks now be is going to support his
| family Of five on that ]? Well, admit that he can
| not do it On TINT, he can
| CoME NEARER TO IT
/ than he can on nothing, and far more creditnbly
to himself and the public in general; and he can
stick to it until he gets something better to do
which will be better than 1oafng around the Re-
lief 6ociety's rooms. Then he goes On to com:
| pare tho wages here and in Yorkshire, which,
| taking the average, arc about double here tc
! what they are there. He says house-rent here
| is seven times dearer than there; that he
/ can get the same amount Of roou
| in cubic feet there for $2.75 that
| he payB S18 for here. Well, admit TINT he ca1
get as much room (Which doubt). think il the
two places could be put side By side. there woulc
| be found considerable difference in the quality
Of the two, and that difference would be on the
| side Of the one here. Then he goes On to com.
pare the prices of provisions here and there. HI
puts tie p1ico OF beef here at Is to Il cents
The fart is, good beef can be had here at frou
10 to Is cents per pound, Of course i: must be
expected to be higher East than here, as it can
not be transported thousands OF railes without
materially increasing the cost. It is altoge.he,
different in England, where it Is only few han
drod miles from one end to the other OF the
| islnnd, and it makes some difference whether
things are transported few hundred miles, or {
thousand or fifteen hundred, but he does moi
take that into consideration at all. Milk he hat
cent higher than it is hare, as it only costs
cents instead Of 7. Aud next comes
| BEER,
which I think he had better have left out, in
stead Of nearly heading the List of eatables will
it, as it is something tha. can bo dispensed with
and no great loss at that; and think that, il {
great many of those who are hanging arount
the Relief Society would spend lezs for beer ant
whisky in the summer, they would have more t.
i've on in the winter. Potatoes he puts nt 5:
cents per peck here against Is cents there
there are plenty Of tines when they are dowr
to 10 cents a1a Is cents here. Such things n
potatoes are regulated according to the size o.
the crop; il there should be large crop, ths
price is down; If small, it is up; and. suppose
It is the same there, Us there are times whea
they ARE ia good deal higher there thar
Is cents per peck. Sugar he puts at 13 cents PEI
| pound here, against Ii cents there; the formel