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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26
The Testimony of British Work.
ingman.

A representative of the New York Tribune
was introduced to Henry Brown, an employe
in the bolt works of Samuel Halls son in that
city. who gave him the following account of
the condition of workingmen in England:
''I left England because workingman's
condition there is a hopeless one, He can new
er get anything ahead, but Just tolls along
and wears his life away for very little to eat,
and a very little to wear; without any enjoy
ments, without anything to make life worth
living The highest wages paid in England
rarely exceed e. (about 5000 and the average
workingman does not make over 20 shillings a
week. When there is a family to support may
be you can calculate how that can be done on
$3.50 week, but doubt it. Still, it is done:
but 1t is miserable living that the poor peo.
pie get An American could not staLd it at
all. The American laborer has luxuries the
English iaborer does not dream of; luxuries,
however, that the American regards as Deces-
sarles The Englishman at 9l week has only
little bread and butter and meat, and Some-
times the meat is lacking, and very often the
butter, The people live almost worse than
animals in the crowded tenement districts but
what better can be exnected ON less than S5 a
week, when that sum must paw the rent the
cost OF Goals bread, meat and clothing, for
from three 10 five persons, may be? The nee
essaries of life in England are little cheaper
than they are here. Meat is cheaper here
than there, and it is better here, as we'll
oioau 10 Soiu Ny weight IN England
and somewhat cheaper there, think. Cali.
Goes, Goals, and a few other things are, maybe,
shade cheaper in England: but taking the
cost OF the actual necessaries right through :
or even allowing the American the comforts
of life which he enioyes and which the En-
g.ish laborer never experiences-and even
then the difference in the cost of living is ut
terly out OF all proportion to the difference in
the wages paid in the two countries The
American aborer with his wages cannot only
live better, but can save something; it is only
by the most rigid economy, self-denial, and
oftentimes the greatest distress, that the ordna-
ry English workman can make both ends meet.
l came to America because / could not stand
it in England. l worked in bolt factory
II ar London, and there 1 received thirty shill-
ings week (S720) Here for the same work /
get twice as much, and, boarding. find that
my living actually costs me less than it did
there"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26
philadelphia Press.j
Work and Wages.

One of the most telling campaign documents
yet issued is the comparative table Of wages
now being circulated among workiDgmeu, con-
trasting the rates paid in England
with those paid here for the same
number of hours labor in the same trades.
This table shows that our protected Industries
can and do.give from 20 to 30 per cent. letter
pay to labor than the "free" trades of the old
country can do, taking fair average range OF
occupations, emitting extreme instances and
making the comparison as close in all respects,
rs practicable. Facts and figures cannot lie
ann that these are facts and figures is attested
by indisputable authority.
The marked effect already produced by this
cogent argument is reflected in the uneasiness
of the free trade and Democratic organs and
the spasmodic efforts they are making to eoun-
teract it. Orders have gone out from head
quarters apparently 10 attack the document by
all possible means and to break the force Of its
presentation by all possible devices. 1t is diff
fcult to argue against it, since it offers no ar
guments to be refuted, but simply gives GER
tain facts and permits intelligent men to draw
their own interences therefrom. The Demo
cratic papers, however, assume the inferences,
which, are inevitable, and undertake to dis
pose of those as best they can. One line of
proceeding is to boldly claim that although
wages are higher here than in England, the
cost OF all the goods, commodities, etc., that
wages go to purchase are also higher, so that
the workingman is 10 better off here, il as
well. Protection enhances the price of labor
but it also enhances the price of everything
else, and if free trade could PREVAIL the cost Of
what the workingman must buy would be re-
duced more than his wages would.
Let us see how much sense there is in this
assumption Our farmers and stockraisers,
under protection, now produce breadstuffs and
provisions and compete with the free-trade
| English in their own markets, Notwithstanding
the fact that we have to send these products
five thucsand miles across land and sea. Does
protection then enhance the cost of breadstuffs
aud provisions, and do our workiDgmen have
to pay twenty 10 fifty per cent. more or flour
md beef than their fellows in England do? If
we should adopt Democratic free trade this
coming winter, could the Minnesota wheat
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

NEW YORK Herald: The Democratic
platform declares unequivccally for tariff
for revenue only; free ships and a living
chance for American commerce on the ocean
and ON the land; no discrimination in favor
of transportation lines, corporations or mon
opolies." The Democratic leaders, whose
first duty it was to expound and explain
this frank and honest declaration to the
people and convince them of it's Justice,
chose to be silent during the whole Sum-
aid Fall. They would not speak for free
ships because they feared to lose Maine:
they would not speak for revenue tariff
because they were afraid of bel G hurt in
Ohio and Indiana. They got General Han
cock to write an absurd, straddling letter in
contempt of the platform to help them in
New Jersey and Connecticut All this
time they were saying to themselves, "Only
let us get in on some other pretext, and
then we will carry out our platform"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

SAYS the New York Herald: ''If any
workingman anywhere believes that ii
would injure him or his interests to alter
the tariff at this time, he should vote the
Republican ticket, no matter what sort Of
contradictory appeals are made to him al
this late day in the canvass by Messrs.
Wells, Hewitt, Bayard and company"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

Mr.. H. p. SMITH of Pittsburg, promi-
nent iron man, member of Solar Iron
Works firm, has just returned from Eng
land, and gives the following as the result of
his observations among British manufacture
ers: "They take the liveliest kind of an in
terest i'll American politics, and at the time
l left, they were particularly jubilant over
the prospects which at that time they re-
garded as about certain for the success of
Democratic party, or as they speak of it in
England, the free-trade party. They look
upon our high tariff as working great injury
to them in shutting them out of our mar
kets, and look forward to the success of the
Democratic party as their only prospect of
relief
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

The Springfield Republican has the fol-
lowing to say about Gen. Garfeld's populari-
ty at home: ''The Democratic story that
Garfield is not popular in his own congress
ional district, the Nineteenth Ohio. was re-
futed in the recent State election, the dis
trict giving its largest Republican majority,
12,726, or more than half of the whole Re
publican majority in the State The garden
spot of the Western Reserve is proud if its
intelligence, and claims to pay more postage
for newspapers and periodicals than any
district of farming population in the coun-
try."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

IT is in vain for the Democrats in face of
the votes in Congress on the Wood bill, to
attempt to disguise their hostility to pro-
tective tariff. The vote ON that bill stood
120 for it, 1l3 of whom were Democrats, 1874
against it, 115 of whom were Republicans.
That is how the parties stand in regard to
the question of the protection of American
industries.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

THE Surgeon General of the army gives
notice that the appropriation for supplying
artificial limbs during the year ending June
80, 1881, is so far exhausted that no more
orders, either for limbs or commetation can
be issued until further provision shall have
been made by Congress. The small balance
remaining will be needed to pay claims al
ready approved.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

Boston Traveller: Iatimidation at the
South, fraud in Indiana, bribery in Maine.
false counts in Alabama tissue ballots in
South Carolina, double dealing on the tariff
question in New Jersey, illegal naturaliza-
ton in New York, false pretences in their
platform, SANDERS on the stump, lying in
their newspapers. violence at the polls, and
knavery everywhere, with forgery as a last
resort-these are the weapons of the Demo-
cratic party
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26
England and the Democracy.

England and the Democracy.
The noble and disinte-ested Briton ap-
pears to be taking hand in our election
this year. British gold has always been
large elemept in every tariff contest in this
country, and the present is no exception to
the rule. Ever since the nomination of Gar
field the British Manufacturers Unionhas
shown lively interest in effecting his de-
feat, for he has been for years one of the
leading protectionists in Congress, and his
election to the Presidency would be fatal
blow to British schemes for inducing the
United States to adopt "tariff for revenue
onlv." Yesterday Portland gentleman re-
ceived by mail Free Trade tract written by
Augustus Mongredien and published in Lon
don, entitled fThe Western Farmer of
America in which the farmers are urged
to combine to overthrow the oppressive sys-
tenn of manufactures in the East
ern States and to buy their goods of
England which can manufacture them much
cheaper on account of the lower prices paid
to mill workmen. There can be no doubt
that these and similar documents have been
spread all over the West by English agents
and that large contributions have been
made to the Democratic campaign funds
from the same source. What answer the
Western farmers will give to this gratuitous
interference of our British cousins, the Oc-
tober elections have already shown. The
answer of the East should be still more en-
hot; hot n, 1ob bor:,,
shall be reduced to the condition of British
laborers will hardly be received with much
favor by the proposed victims. And this
attempt of British manufacturers to manip-
ulate an American election in their own in
terest will not be likely to enure to the ben
eft of the party whose cause they espouse
when once the operation is understood.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26
THEI PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. s6.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, necessarily for publcs-
tion but as guaranty Of good faith
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munleatlons tnat are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

DEMOCRATIC aversion to The spelling book
shows itself in the forgery which Chnaman
Barnum of the national committee declares
to be letter from Garfield.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

CHAIRMAN ToRREY does not agree with
Gen Plaisted as to the ''moneyed aristocra-
cy." Mr.. Torrey says the Fusionists must
put out monev if they expect to carry Maine
in November
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
OF NEW YORK.

FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
For Electors at Large.
JOSEPH s. WHEELWRIGHT, of Bangor.
IRA II. FOSS, of Saco.
First DiStrict-ELlSH III. .IEWETT.
Second District OTIS HAYF 'RD.
Third District--EDWIN FLYE.
Fourth District LEWIS B. JOHNSON.
Fifth DiStrict-SEWARD b. HUME.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

ST. LOUIS Globe-Democrat: "The South
needs protective tariff in the shape of a
levy of dollar a word on the speeches and
writings of the Brigadiers, 10 keep them
from saving too much.'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

Do working men want to toll for the misera-
bic wages paid in the Old World? II not, let
them vote to defend the Protective Tariff. In
the Southern States the black working man
gets IS month and ration of peck CT corn
meal and three pounds of bacon week. Per-
haps the Southern politicians who control the
Democratic party would like to bring the
white working man of the North down to
these wages. The white working man will,
in November express his opinion of their rev.
enue tariff plan with his ballot
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

EVERY regular ache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card Ger cate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor. All rail ~ steamboat and hotel managers
viii confer favor upon us by demanding edentias
Of every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

II is now suspected, says the Chicago
Tribune, that Hancock's letter on the tariff
question is simply companion piece 10
Mark Twain's essay ON agriculture.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26

WORCESTER Spy: So desperate is the
plight of the Democrats that they have
brought forward David A. Wells and ]. S.
Moore, notorious free traders, to say that
in their opinion tariff for revenue only
does not mean free trade, nor any approach
to it, but that it does mean better protec-
ton than the present tariff. These gentle
men who consider themselves experts on the
subject, whether others think them so or
not, give for the public information their
notion of a tariff for revenue only. 1t re-
duces the rates of duty on most articles,
aud puts many on the free list. Among the
latter are wool, breadsiuffs, fax, hemp and
jute. potatoes, and seeds of all kinds. Du-
ties are now levied ON all these articles. 1t
has been said, as one of the arguments
against the present tariff, that it protects
the man ufacturer at the expense of the
farmer, yet this model revenue tariff, de-
signed to correct this fault among others,
removes all the protection now given to the
products of the farm except sugar, tobacco
and fruits.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-26
NOTICE.

NOTICE s hereby given that / will pay no
~ deb's of my wife, Jane Nelson's contracting
after this date.
j. W. NELSON,
Portland, October, %, 1880. oc25d3ts
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18
WE are informed that Judge Fiedle

WE are informed that Judge Fielder
one of our delegates to the late Harris
burg State Convention, says he is not
aware of having violated the instruc-
tions given him by our County Com
mittee, to support Blaine and ''use all
honorable means" for him in the Con-
vention. The report of the proceedings
Of the Convention has it that ''the dele
gates from Butler county" voted for
Errett, the Grant candidate for Presi-
dent of the Convention, as against Law
renee, the candidate proposed by the
friends Of Blaine for that position. When
we saw this we supposed Judge Fled
Ter had been imposed upon in some
manner or other, as he was perhaps the
most pronounced opponent of Grant in
this county; and as we have no desire
to do him any injustice, we will be pleas
ed to hear from him, and will publish
any communication he may make on
the subject.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18
A Flinsy Reason.

The following editorial appears in
the Eagle of this place last week, in
which the editor, Mr.. Thomas Robin
son, gives an account Of the proceed
ings of the late Republican State Con.
vention. He was present at the same
and is supposed to have had much to
do in inducing the delegates from this
county to violate their instructions to
the extent they did. The following
extracts from his account will show
the Republicans of this county not only
the nature of the logic used, but the
shameful want of manhood, and the
deep humiliation to which they have
been subjected by the same, he says !:
1T is worthy of remark that as the
canvass progressed on Wednesday af-
ternoon, not word was heard in JUS
ti6cation of Grants candidacy! The
only plea made on that side was the
statement of the fact that our leaders,
Senator Cameron, Gov. Hoyt, Col.
Quay and others had publicly commit
ted themselves for him that to instruct
against him would be to give their op-
ponents victory over them. This was
the view taken by the Philadelphia
delegation which was almost unit
for Blaine. One of their leading men,
bers declared that there were not over
three Graut men in the delegation, yet
forty-four of them voted for the Grant
resolution. The same may be said of
other delegations. The wonder is that
ll3 members of the Convention (three-
fourths of whom were friends of Cam
eron) could hold out against such ap-
peals. No one in the Convention ques-
toned for moment that Blaine was
the choice of an overwhelming majority
of the Republicans Of the State and the
most active friends of the Grant reso-
luton were open in their predictions
that the State would finally give him
its vote at Chicago. Whether their
predictions will be verified time only
can telln
'sUpon the whole it must be admit
ted that three things were fairly dedu-
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

chile from the deliberations OF the Con-
vention; First, That Grant was not
the choice of the Republicans of the
State for President; second, that
Blaine was their choice; and third,
that Senator Cameron had a strong
hold on the party leaders throughout
the State. His friends generally IN
dulged in the hope, however, that hay-
ing fully realized that not being IN ac-
cord with public sentiment in this
Grant movement he will at once put
himself in complete accord with the
sentiment of the State and go to Chi
cago determined to carry out Their
will"
Here then it is admitted that Grant
Uas not choice of the State, as shown
by the delegates themselves as sent
to the Convention. Second, IT is adj
mitted that Blaine ac0s the choice.
Why then did the Convention not
instruct for Blaine, as far as it had a
right to do so? The following is the
reason given, to which we invite at
tention: THE only plea made, he
states. was the fact that our leaders,
Senator Cameron, and others, had
publicly committed themselves for
Grant, and that to instruct against
him would be to give their opponents
victory over them" Now, "their
opponents" that is the opponents OF
Senator Cameron and the ''leaders, >
were the opponents of Grant and the
friends of Blaine, who really had,
as is admitted, large majority in the
Convention, yet it failed to instruct
for Blaine and did, in way, instruct
for Grant The only question before
the Convention was its choice for Pres
ident, as expressed by the people, 1t
was not the choice of the ''leaders, .
that it was sent to obey. What had
the Republicans of Butler county TO
do with their choice, and what did the
Republicans of Butler county care
for their choice. We expressed or
choice, and so did the State, but were
cheated out of it by arguments like the
above. Because certain men had
committed themselves, " they had to be
humored and their feelings consulted
as against the feelings and opinions OF
the Republican party. And this ar
gument prevailed with enough dele
gates through the influence of petty
postofices, they or their friends held,
or other Offices held or favors granted
them. Truly this is serious case for
the Republicans of this State to con-
slider.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

course it has in order to frighten our
delegate 1t must have short MEM
ory, as it will see by referring to what
il contained not three months ago, re-
lative to another matter in which our
delegate was involved. If the Com
mercial Gozette will permit us, the
Republicans of this county will try to
attend to their own offairs. Our
whole party here reflects" upon our
delegates to the State Convention
Greer. Mckee and Fielder, in giving
any vote in the same not in accordance
with their instructions to support
Blaine "by all honorable means.
And as to the unit rule. we do not
know a Republican in this county who
is in favor of it.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

WE notice by the Eagle last week
that Mr.. Robinson speaks as being
chosen" . delegate "by the State
Convention" Will he simply say
which instructions, those he got at
home here from our County Commit
tee or those he got at Harrisburg, he
intends to obey? We ask the ques-
tion in good faith, and an answer may
settle contemplated movement among
the Republicans Of this county. He
will notice that we have not assumed
that he will not be bound by the will
and wishes of the Republicans of this
county.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

and Grove and the attempt of Cameron
to choke off the expression Of the Re-
publican masses. The "unit rule pre-
vailed in all its fullness. Not one per-
son attempted to palliate the action of
the delegates, and a determination was
expressed on ali sides to hold the Ma
tional delegates to q strict account If
they failed to obey the wishes of their
constituents in the Chicago Conven-
ton. Other local conventions which
will soon meet will take action similar
10 that of our own.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

with them in any manner. The State
Convention passed a resolution that
the delegation should vote as unit
but these delegates refused to do so,
and it was the only delegation east of
the State of Illinois that cast its first
ballot for Abraham Lincoln, thereby
saving the election to the Republican
party and the Nation to posterity and
liberty. This is a good precedent to
follow this year, when some of the
Harrisburg politicians are again at
tempting to usurp the power of the
people 1t is time some of these gen.
tlemen were taught that their breeches
pockets are not quite capaeious enough
to hold the whole Republican party
of Pennsylvania.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

INDIGNATION MEETINGS, at the action
Of the late Republican State Convention,
are being held in various parts of the
State. Notice has been given of one to
be held in Somerset county soon, to
protest not only against the so-called
''nnit rule" but also against the action
of the Convention in throwing out Gen.
VIM. Fl. Kountz, a Blaine delegate from
that county, and one of the ablest,
purest, best and most eloquent Repub-
licans of the State.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

NEAR Allentown, Pa, recently, d
six-year-old girl named Shaffer, ac-
companied by a little boy. while on
her way to school, had her foot caught
between the planks on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, near crossing.
The boy tried to extricate her, but his
efforts proved unavailing. Seeing her
danger she lay down--her head from
the track, with her legs across the rail.
The train came along, cutting off both
legs. Sbe died jn q few minutes.