The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-18
ANOTHER.
open kstter No. II In the Fishhaek.
Petlle Series.
How Protection Works IN suEeoor, New
Hampshire, and Liverpool, Ohio-Com-
pHrison OF Wages I'm England
and America
The News

The News
HoE. STANTON ]. PKELE-The Fourth OF
July dispatches from the village OF Suncook,
NH, were edifying. The owners OF certain
infant Industries in the village of SRncook
baverecently imported by the InmaE Line OF
steamers several hundred STedes, who are
described in the dispatches as 'paopers and
JailSirds." These ''psupers and Jailbirds"
were brought TO this country 10 take the
plGee OF the American workmen FOR whose
protection certain tariff laws have been en-
acted. These "psuPers and Jailbirds' sniff
ing the Fourth Of JGly breezes, and not con-
tent with the Very low wages paid
thCm by the owners OF the highly pro-
tected industries, began 10 leave the viii
lage OF Suaceok, turning their faces
westward. When, 10 their taskmssters seized
them, kept them imprisoned and drove them
to their WORK as black men were driven to
the cane and cotton fields before the War.
By some means word reached the Swedish
Minister st Washington, and he has been in
Quiling by what authority his countrymen
were treated IN this fashion, and the expi3ua-
ton is given 5hat the ''paupers and Jailbirds''
bought more food and clothing than their
imprisonment was a ready method ado ted
by the protected manufacturers to prOtec the
village sto7ekeepers who had been selling
goods 10 the "paupefS and Jailbirds." When
you 60 to Washington in December you will
probably hear Senator Morrill, argue that the
owners EFF the ''SuncOOk infant industries
need more protection, so that American
lSbOrers shall not be reduced to starvation
wages b. composition with foreign pauper
labor" Another interesting fac: hiss come
to light The town of Liverpool, o., is the
seat OF a great crockery- ware industry. By
the recent law you raised the tariff or toe
articles made there. The increase was de-
manded and granted in behalf of American
woIkmen. The owners OF the crCckery IN
dusty ct Liverpool have adopted a method
of dealing with their dissatisfied employees
which is said 10 work well. Their laborsrs
are required to rent tenements owned by the
monopoly, which are occupied as long as the
wOlkmen remain in the employ of the pro-
pIietors. When the workmen ask for higher
wsges they are promptly elected from the
tenements 70 make room for cheaper work
men So when il was settled that the tariff
woClG be increased. the patriotic owners of
the protected industry discharged their
American wOrkmen, grove them from their
homes, and supplied their places with cheap
foreign laboTers imported for the purpose.
The protsctiOnists are opposed to theories
buteIe hungry for facts. Let them chew
inns 'EuDcCOE ana Liverpool business. III
serves to illustrate the patriotism of the
mOnopOlists who clamOr for protection in the
Dans Of The American System and is
worth thinking about by statesmen who al
low themselves 10 be humbagged by false
preieases.
Suppose it should turn out to be the ;act,
after all, that II the principal protected in
dEstries OF this country our workmen get less
pay for the same work than is paid to work
men in The same industries ic free trade
England quote from the published address
of Mr. Thomas g. Shearman, delivered az
Detroit in June last the following:
According to the returns published by Mt
Secretary FIelinghuyseu, the average annual
vases CT all men. women and children employed
IN English cotton mills are s25l they working only
FIFTY. SIX hours A week The annual AVERAGE wages
q The class Of work people il our American
cotton mills were in lSs1 only s2i3-they working
average Of at least sixty-fve hours week As
their wages were reduced 70 per cent long ago
since $500 The result is that during the last year
the cotton operatives in America have been work
ing siziy-fve hours q week for si9j q year, while
the cotton operatives in England have been work
aIS ODly ~ liouIs week IOI s-0i year
Thus II one Of the largest and most highly pro
tected manufactures iD this country the rate of
wages is p per cent. lower than in England, tue
hours Of labor are Is per cent longer and the
of living is 20 per cent more"
The special reports Of Mr.. Secretary Eyar's
in 1879 and of Mr.. Secretary Blaine in 1851
show that in nearly every department of in
dustry in America, workmen get less wages
Tor gwen amount 81 W0rk tnan English
wOTkmen do. Our wOrkmen work more
hours, work faster, and during a year will
produce nearly double what an English
workman produces. Mr.. Sherman says:
The census shows that the average production OF
American WOTkmen IN 1850 was 81. $50 per mead,
while Gle average production OF English Workmen
was only $3.50 per head. Wages are not on an
average Is per cent. higher here than IN England,
and therefore American labor producing 100 per
cent. more Is practically at least 80 per cent.
cheaper than English.
Now, when American workmen come to
understand that tariff laws are procured to
increase profits only, and that ali talk about
paying them increased wages is in the face
Of the facts, and is simply for the purpose OF
catching their votes, they will kick as Wig
oIoUsly as the Iowa farmer who objected TO
being taxed TO support an ostrich farm, or TO
drain swamp on Skunk Greek for the cul
tuIe OF rice. W. p. FIsHBACK.