The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-27
hAnd on earth
Peace, good will to men I"



If there is any land under the sun worthy
of this name, anyhwere where honest labor
gets its full reward md where the bread-win-
ner has q square chance in the game of life, it
is certainly our own favored land. And this
is the unwilling testimony of men who are not
Americans. There has recently fallen into
my hands the published report of the wages
of English labOrcrs, made up by British
professor, and also one Of our statistical re-
ports on wages in the United States, which
present n contrast that arrests attention.
There is something tremendously effective
and instructive in column of dry looking
figureg, Eve will only use our brains trhe,
and these particular figures shedno uncertain
light upon a subject worthy of the careful
thought of every mani you can't get away
from them, they mean business every time.
Farm hands in Massachusetts receive an
average of $1,25 day including board. Il
think this is a low average for the rest of the
cOuntry.) English farm hands get 70 cents q
day and board themselves Carpenters hero
get sll,33 week against 1884 in England,
American plumbers average SIS week and
English plumbers hut 1919. American mas
ons earn 1870 a week and English masons
only s9.54 Chalrmakers average Sll a week
in America and 1913 in England. Ordinary
dress makers are rated as earning $7.43 per
week in the United States against "a to So in
Great Britain. These are few of the CON-
parisions which show that wages paid in the
United States are decidedly and universally
| larger than those earned in the same employ.
ment across the sea. But those who do their
own thinking need no such figures Who does
not know scores of mon who began in toll and
humility, and closed their days
SURROUNDED BY WEALTH,
enjoying the respect of half nation, or win
ming commercial name that is familiar In
mems mouths as household words2
One notable instance of the kind come tC
my knowledge quito recently. Thirty years
ago poor German music teacher landed OF
our shores to seek that iOrtunb in tbs New
World which friendless man rarely finds ii
the Old. For few years he earned slender
living az n church organist, and finally con
celved the idea of striking 5ut as plant
maker. The start was humble enough, fo
he worked year after year at the bench, creep
ing slowly bit steadily upwRrd. Twent.
years passed, and the poor music teacter'
name was known in every household as lead
ingplano manufacturer. He began to receiv
letters from such great artists as
CHRISTINE NILSSON,
Miss Kellogg, Lucca, Patti, RoZe, Ann
Louise Cary and Emma Thursby, all declar
ing that his pianos were superior to all other
Il have myself seen these letters, and know
whereof speak.) His bushes. grew, hi
fortune grew, and when he died last summer
leaving his fortune aud his business to hi
only son, who had been trained with grea
care to take his fathers place, the name {
Albert Weber was added to the long list {
men whose humble careers had closed unde
the bright skies Of or own fair land, in opu
e lence and wide repute. And who does nj
. know that
II CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
began life as a row-bont ferry man; ct
I. Stewart landed here a penniless DO th'
Singer and Howe and Goodyear struggled
/ poverty for years; that grand old Pet'
/, Cooper and Horace Greeley, Millard ilmor
e Andrew johnson and Abraham Lincoln can
from the very humblest walks Of life ?
Do you know that there is no grander, NJ
bler character or record in America to-dl
than that of Peter Cooper? He will new
r run for Office any more, aud so l will not
u suspected of political guile when l promii
# quite soon to tell your readers something
j. the personal history Of this remarkable o
, man, MORLEY.