The daily gazette., 1882-08-19
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR SHERIFF.,
PURNAL ]. LYNCH.
Facts for the yvorkingmen.

few days ago, the foreman of one of the
shipyards of this city on being asked about
employing former workman, now in Phila-
delphia, and told that he could obtain his
services for one dollar aud segenty-tive
cents per day, replied, "0h, for that
"matter we have plenty of just as
{" good workmen who are not getting that
" much" This state of affairs prevails
generally all over the city, and the wages
paid good mechanics will average from one
dollar and a half to two dollars per day.
In the State of Delaware, outside of VIII
mington, are five post offices to which are
attached salaries of more than one thousand
dollars per annum, as follows New Castle,
81 200; Middletown, 81 200 Milford, 81, 400;
Smyrna, 81 800 Dover, 81 900. The salary
of the Wilmington post office is s., 200.
Here are some facts for the poorly-pad
mechanics of Wilmington to carefully con
slider. While they toll and labor day after
day, Earning their bread by the sweat of
!" their brows," and making at the utmost
but $500 to 5000 per year, five country
postmasters, at least three of whom
are also engaged in lucrutive mercantile
transactions, receive from 81 200 to 81 600
for doing less actual labor in one year than
any industrious mechanic of Wilmington
performs in three months. Neither of these
post offices do heavy business and at Dover,
where the highest salary prevails, the mail is
daily carried on a wheebarrow between the
depot and the postotiice by a decrepid old
man, who never feels his burden except dur
ing the session of the Legislature, when, of
course, the business OF the Office is largely
increased for two or three months. There
is no earthly reason why there should be
such discrepancy between the salaries of the
mechanics of Wilmington and the country
postmasters down the State. True, the
mechanics should receive more, but their
pay is generally regulated by the demands
of business, and when trade is dull wages
come down to the lowest possible notch
But the salary of the country postmaster
like the brook in the song, "goes Oh
" forever" and even when mei
work for small pittance Will,
many roam helplessly about the city unabl
to procure employment of any kind, tn
country postmaster sits comfortably in hi
OliANSs hlsbi lbhltb HID IltdRlE udltN mails
and draws his salary each month with un
falling regularity.
In this matter of official salaries, is seeI
how little real interest the Republican part
feels in the workingmen OF the country. N
matter how little the mechanics and laborel
receive, the high salaries of postmasters an
other government officials continue in ordt
that the black-mail assessments of ia
Hubbell may be paid and still
leave enough to more than pa
for the meagre service ren
dered. The money contributed by tn
hard-worked and poorly-paid mechanics
thus squandered on pampered officials, an
used by them to control elections in whic
their sole interest is to keep themselves
power and position. How long will IL
workingmen of Wilmington vote for IL
party that thus degrades and impoyerish
their labor for the benefit of office-hode
who are paid more than double what the
services are really worth.