Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-29
REPUBLICAN WAGES.

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Money With Big n. for the Bondhold'
ers, And Poverty Witha Big p. for the
Laborer.
Correspondence Of the Register.
Messrs. Campbell and Oesterling ap-
pear to have joined hands to teach the
laboring men of this city, that il Han
cock is elected, their wages will be pull
ed down so low, that goingto the Poor
House will be more profitable to them'
than working for the miserable pittance
they will get. AS proof Of this the
wages paid in Germany are quoted; but
they do not tell that in Germany in adj
dition to those wages the boarding and
mending are added, and that amount
should be added to complete the state
ment. The purchasing capacity OF q dol
lar in Germany is almost equal to that
of ten in this country and this should
also be taken in consider alton.
II the amount paid by our mechanics
for boarding and mending (which is
equal to $3.50 to $500 per week., be
added to Campbell's quotations it Will
DO seen that our wages are not 30 very
much greater than those paid IN
Germany. Take for instance the wages
paid by some OF our leading Republican
employers in this city. One OF our lars-
est planning mills pays an average OF ~
Der week or 81 80 per day, to carpenters
and has been the principal cause Oh
nearly all the journeymen carpenters
being compelled to work for the same
wages.
Our two largest tin shops pay their
iourneymen $3.50 per day.
A large wagon-making firm, which is
fast growing wealthy through its trade
with the solid South pays wood workers
and blacksmiths an average Of $3.50 per
day.
At the Oil Refinery men are paid from
$3.50 to 5000 per week.
At the Cigar factory OF one OF the lead
ing men in the trade, journeymen cigar
makers get about s. per week.
At the East Wheeling Glass House,
during the last year, men with families
who even dragging along on sl.OO to
s. 80 per day have been discharged and
their places filled with women and girls
at half the prices paid the men in order
to present the men being compelled to
work at Germany Wages. Laborers are
paid from $500 to $50 per week at the
several mills and factories.
These are wages actually paid in this
city by prominent members OF Camp.
bells patty and ere practical proofs OF
the cant and hypocricy now being ex-
hibited by Republicans, in their new
born anxiety about the working man 8
welfare. That party has been in power
for nearly twenty years and what has
been its course in relation to the Bond
holder and the laborer, The Bonds,
which were paid for in currency worth
from 33} to 66S in gold, were at first to
have the Interest paid in gold, but by
subsequent legislation the principal and
interest even both made payable In
gold, and the Bonds exempted from
State, County and City taxation. The
entire object OF this being to make the
Bonds more valuable to the holder. But
how Jared the laborer? Was any effort
made, while this was being done, to
make the money, paid to the soldiers
when blood helped to make the Bonds
valuable. equal to gold? Was the pen
sion paid to the fallen soldier, widows
and orphans paid in gold currency?
Has the personal property OF the
laboring man ever been exempted from
taxation, or even his head in all the
long wears the non-tax paving Bonds
have been increasing in value? Was
not the Republican party the only party
in this country which ever imposed an
income tax on the citizens OF this coun-
try and which proved burden to the
honest industrious man and was evaded
by the wealthy through legal technlcaIl-
ties and sometimes bv frtud? Has not
the entire financial legislation Of the
Republican party been in the interest
OF the Bondholder and to the injury OF
the laborer? Does not it all tend, with
the cry OF Nation with big \ to
Money with big VI for the BondhoIder
and Poverty with big p Tor the laborer?
Mr.. Campbell has been President OF the
Hinge Company and is now President
OF the Benwood Mill and although he
now mourns over the awful fate hang
iny over the laborers through Hancock's
election, yet he has always been known
to favor reduction OF the wages of the
employees in these two establishments,
when an opportunity presented itself to
have it done.
Our laborers have too much common
sense to be misled by any anxiety he
may now exhibit about their welfare
and appreciate the circular and wood
cuts he is 80 industriously sending into
almost every house in the city, at their
proper value. Ii he is sincere in his
sympathy for them why does he not now
and has he not Tor year or more de-
nOunced his party for forming the iatro-
duction OF Chinese labor into this coun-
try instead of making such miserably
lame an apology for Mr.. Gan field as he
did a few days ago. Mr.. Gartield's rec
ord in Congress is opposed to C's denial.
Last January on the passage OF bill 10
restrict the number OF Chinese to be
brought to the United States to not
more than fifteen in any one ship at one
time, Mr.. q. lodged a vote, the bill
went to the Senate and was amended.
When the Amendments were sent back
to the House, he voted to table them
trying in this way to kill the bill. When
the bill was vetoed by Mr.. Hayes he
voted to sustain the veto, thus
doing all he possibly could to favor the
continued incoming of Chinese to
compete with American labor. Does
this look as il the Republican party was
anxious to protect American labor! A
Republican Senate made or ratified the
original treaty permitting Chinese emf
grafton. subsequently Democratic
Congress passed bill limiting the num-
her to an almost prohibitory one, which
bill was vetoed by Republican Presi.
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