The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-01-18
l'auper Labar--Wh Is 1T

Almost without exception the
wage workers or the civilized world /!
Astounding rs that sentence may
seem the consular reports made to
the Department OF the State by the
United States eonsnls resident
abroad. establish It's truth. The Ia
boicr who has honestly and indus
tiiously toilcd all his life. lived
frusallv even flatingly, IN food,
rainsnt and the utli~r neccssniies OF
human existence, without neeumu-
lating enough OF worldly goods to
carry him over the period Of his old
age and doiAgc to the grave. has not
only been u pauper laborer, but
practically a Stare. This condition
comes from false systems OF govern.
mcnt. whereby the profits OF labor
arc awarded to 4 mol ility created 10y
usurpation, or by that equally po-
ent engine OF robbery, 4 legalized
system or usury and corporate
plumber given to monopolies Great
Ell with the perpetnatiCn and sue
cession given by custom, tradition
and law 10 the feudal barons Of
Europe. Glance ut the varied fields Of
labor IL the United States, and the
wage workers r. u class, consume
their wages almost or quite as fast
as earned. The annual surplus pro.
duced by their labor Is over $1,000
eOo,Ga0. Labor barely lives; legal
lied monopoly appropriates the
surplus, and were the sum double
what it Is, this monoI oily in its vari-
cd forms Is organized with I'LL the
appliances for its ats 1rption. ]. Is
TO the interest Of monopoly that la
Dor should be ignorant, relying up
on that 10 psrpetuatc its power. To
THE cnd il countenanccs 4 literature
through the monopolistic press, that
avoids ull allusion 10 these funda-
mental truths. Miss yaneyisnl'' Il
their styl. "tco much politics" their
cry, thus seeking to lull robbed
and wronged labor into continued
submission TO the corporated mo-
nopolies which appropriate the pro-
ceeds OF labor. Falsely processing
sympathy with labor, Monopoly
levies q tax in the form or II tariff,
shouts 'pauper labor and tlium-
| PLAINLY nsks "how the Anne lean,
can subsisl on the wages paid En-
glish operatiy.s.' True enough
How can 1t? And yet the consular
i reports show that the average year
~ wages paid the operative in the
English cotton millsis S25U.33, while
the average yearly wages paid the
the same class In American cotton
factories il only $2i5,93.
| Thus have the protected mo-
nopoles OF the United States re-
duced the wages OF labor below that
OF the so much dreaded pauper labor
Of England. On page lOi Of the
consulor reports, Is table showing
that the domestic exports CT the
United States to England for the
year reported was S3l7.O33, 500. sur
plus sls6, 4Os,sl7 Did the entire
sum exported, or only the surplus.
come directly in competition with the
products Of the panper labor OF
England? We think al :hat found
u market there came in competition
with such labor. Not only Is this
true. but when these giant monopo-
lice fattened upon protective legis-
lation, fai! to make those who
labor at the loom. at the forge, ut
the lathe in their varied occupations
and smployments, as low down in
the scale Of human existence as the
pauper lnborers under the Europe
All system, they close the great
workshops and turn the operatives
out in the streets to starye or to
feed upon the state in the condition
Of hegyars. Expectations OF pauper
labor from Europe arc made to I'LL
the places Of American laborers who
have the impudtnce to strike for
such wages as will give food. fuel
raimen,, rent, with school booke and
schooling for the children. And on
page SCI OF the consular reports
Consul Grinnell OF Bremen notifies
capital where it can supply itself
under contract with skilled paupel
labor at ;.inere nominal.price by
advancing the passage money
Panpef labor! We repeat what is
its