The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-01-14
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Peace, gsod will % Iaen
If there is any lard under the sun
worthy of this name, u any where
honest labor gets It's 10 reward and
where the breadwinner has square
chance in the game Of life, it ce tainIy
is our own favored land A Il this
is the unwilling testim nv oil men
who are not Americans There has
recently fallen into nv hands tie
published report of the wages of
English lsborers, made up By q Brit
tish professor, and also one of our
statistical reports on wages in the
United States, which present con-
trast that arrests attention. There
is something tremendously effective
and instructive in column of drv
looking figures, if we will only use
our brains a triae. aud these particu-
lar figures shed no uncertain light
upon subject worthy Of the careful
thought of every man; you can't get
away from them, they mean business
every time. Farm hands in Msssa.
chusetts receive an average of 81 25
day including board 0 think this
is low average for the rest of the
country. English farm hands get
out 73 cents day and board them.
selves Carpenters here get $lI 33
week against 50 81 in England
American plumbers average SIS
week and English plumbers but 80 s4
Chairmskers average sI1 a week in
America and 50 IS in England. Or
dinary dress makers are rated as
earning S7.43 per week in the United
States against 81 to S6 in Great
Britain. These are but few of the
comparisons which chow that
WAGES PAID IN THE UNITED STATES
are decidedly and universally larger
than those earned in the same EN-.
Iploy across the sea. But those
who do their own thinking need no
such figures. Who does not know
scores of men who began in toll and
humility, and closed their days
SURROUNDED BY WEALTH,
enjoying the respect of half nation.
or winning q commercial name that is
familiar in mems mouths as house
hold words?
One notable instance of the kind
came to my knowledge quite recently.
Thirty years ago poor German mu.
sic teacher landed on our shores TO
seek that fortune in the New World
which friendless man rarely finds
in the Old For few years he
earned slender living as a church
organist, and finally conceived the
idea of striking out as piano maker.
The start was humble enough, for be
worked year after year at the bench,
creeping slowly, but steadily upward.
Twenty years passed, aud the poor
music teachers name was known in
every household a. a leading piano
manufacturer He began to receive
letters from such great artists as
CHRISTINE NILSSON,
Miss Kellogg, Lucca, Patti, Roze,
Anna Louise Cary and Emma Thurs
by, all declaring that biz pianos were
superior 10 all others / have my
self seen these letters, and know
whereof | speak. His business grew,
his fortune grew, and when he
died last summer, leaving his fortune
and his business 10 his only son, who
had been trained with great care to
take bis fathers place, the name of
Albert Weber was added to the long
list OF men whose humble careers
bad closed under the bright skies OF
our own fair land, in opulence and
wide repute. And who does not
know that
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
began life as row-boat ferry man
that A. T. Stewart landed here
penniless boy ; that Singer and Howe
and Goodyear struggled in poverty
for years; that grand old Peter
Cooper and Horace Greeley, MilIsrd
Fillmore, Andrew johnson and
Abraham Lincoln came from the very
humblest walks of life2
Do you know that there is no
grander, nobler character or record
in America to-day than that of good
old "UDcle Peter" as people famil-
isrly call Peter Cooper ? He will
never run for Office any more, and 80