New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-30

and If any talented boy is too poor to attend ana
spnnort himself, he is clothed and fed while he
nerfeets himself in his trade. / shall hereafter
sneak of the splendid progress Of the trade OF those
remarkable industrial towns, Lille, Roubalx ana
Tureoing But within a short time a new technical
school which will cost $500 900 has been begun al
Roubaix. the French Government TO pay S1SOOoo
and the rates of the town $4,000. In the present
Roubaix technical school they have from 600 to
700 pupils and the town votes an annual subsidy OF
$40 900. England, in carrying out her famous doc
trine of lssez aire has ignored this method OF as
ssting industries as well as the direct method
of Protection Already she has been compelled
to make a move in the direction of technical edu-
cation and a Commission has recently astonished
the British manufacturers with an account of the
advances in this direction in the north of Italy,
France Alsace, Switzerland, Germany, some parts
of Austria and Belgium and Holland.
A Commission to investigate the effects of Free
Trade was proposed by some hereto in Parliament.
That was too much.
"Ihe mere appointment of such Commission"
said great statesman, would be playing into the
hands of Protection"
And the resolution was lost but not by great
majority
The working-people of this district are upon the
whole as well off as those in Pensbury and Bailey
and in some OF the industrial parts OF Leeus anu
Br afford Many of them live in comfortable cot
tages amid the vine-clad mountains of the cham
payne districts. During the last ten years much
has been done in France toward providing better
homes for the operatives: and in this work the
Rheims district has not been behind the Department
of the Nord and Normandy. OF course, the con-
dtion of the wOrk-people in the woOlen industry Of
Their Great Britain France or Germany cannot be
compared with the condition of the operatives IN
the same industry in the United States, because
the latter earn about 100 per cent more wages and
they obtain better food for the same price, while
their other expenditures-if they cared for nothing
beyond what their Continental brothers are able to
purchase-need not greatly exceed that of the Eng
fish, French or German, except i'll the one item of
rent Ii costs the American workman more 10 I'VE
simply because his wants are greater. his anfbl-
tions greater his horizon broader he is III fact IN
all respects q higher type of beng; he Is u man
with future. .
The European workman is essentially man with
no future. At the beginning of the race the Eng
lshman far outIanked his Continental neIghb0r.
He was paid better. But England introduced the
great dwelling policy. and IL to-day sharing her adj
Vantages with the Continent. In afew years
Royal Commission will elcctrify England with the
fact that in all industries the Continental workman
is receiving the same wages the English work
man 4: that one-sided Free Trade has closed Eng
lands markets and opened her ports To the surplus
stocks of Europe; that wages have decreased IN
England and increased the Continent. Ihis
process has been going IN the iron and steel, me
am now prepared to show that it is equally true If
We submit to tine test the wages paid IN the four
great wOOllen districts of the four principal coun
tries of the world. Below is the proof: