Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-16

the Every Evening, pretending to as
sail the REPUBLICANS arraignment
of poor pay and poor living for labor
ers in Great Britain, Germany, Belgium
and Holland, would have appeared
more in earnest had it been sent to this
paper instead of the one in which it ap-
peared. We would not be surprised if
we had met a Scot" before, away
back last winter, in the same manner,
when we gave the experience of an
honest Scotchman in the REPUBLICAN
on the same subject of labor and wages
in Dundee. He was very easily dis
posed of at that time, and his state
ments at this time are so grossly incon-
sistent, contradictory and so contrary
to the general experience of other, and
we believe more honest Scots, that we
hardly deem his statement worthy of
contradiction. 1t has always been gen.
orally understood that women and
children did work in the mines in
Wales and England, and that laboring
women did work like mere beasts of
burthen in Holland and Belgium
Even suppose women and children did
AAoo ~ uOW II ihto lnC WIFI DICK
and shovel, :" a Scot " will hardly dare
deny that in Wales they work in fur
naces, FORCES and machine shops, WELD
ing the sledge at the anvil, the same as
their more muscular brethren. If this
is denied, then the eyes of Robert T.
Porter, who visited these iron centres
some eighteen months ago, must have
deceived him. We hesitate not to say
that there are honest Germans in this
city who will substantiate the charge
that in Holland and Belgium there are
large numbers of German women who
perform much of the labor that beasts
of burthen do in this country.
Our statement of the wages received
In England, for wonder, is not con-
tradicted, but "a Scot" ventures to
give the following argument to chow
that $3.50 week in Scotland will 60 as
far as 81 week in this country
will give one fact: my wages per
week in Scotland before coming here
were "a. 80. | am in receipt of wages in
this city at the rate 81 per week, an
increase ofS2 20 per week, but after
pay for my board and washing 1 find
that can save no more out of 81 here
than can at home in Scotland out of
$4.oO How does this tally with the
REPUBLICAN, notion of prices of pro-
visions, etc., in Great Britain? If my
wages in Scotland were pauper wages,
what are they in Wilmington, Della
ware?"
We do not deny that s. week is
low wages in Wilmington, but if that is
low, we would retort, how about $3.50
in Scotland? We have no doubt what
ever that :" a Scot " could live lust as
cheaply here and as well as he did in
Scotland if he brought himself down to
the same diet. principally porridge, and
with meat occasionally. No matter
what is said the differences in the
prices of articles in the two countries
that are mostly used by the laboring
classes is so tritiing that it makes no
perceptable difference.
1t stands to reason that -four and
meat could not he exported from this
country to England aud sold there for
a less price than they are sold in Will
mington, and yet " "A Scot" will hardly
deny that the lab ring classes of En-.
gland, and by England we mean Scot
land as well, li'tve used bread made
from American flour and beef shipped
from New York. The general expert.
ence of sensible and Industrious Scotch.
men is that they can do much better
here than they can in scotland. Those
who have been industrious and frugal
live in comfort and have accumulated
property. Exceptions of course musl
be made for those who meet accidental
reverses of fortune which they cannot
help, and for hose who deposit large
part of their hard earned 81 or $40 q
week in the drinking saloon instead Of
in the savings bank
Now then another point and we will
dismiss this subject. If "a Scot" cal
do so much better in Scotland at 81. 81
a week, than he can here on 81, he is
very foolish man Tor remaining here a
such great sacrifice. We SHOULD
think sensible man would stay wher
he can have the most comforts ant
make the most money. We would no
be surprised, however, to find :"
Scot" persisting in making himself
martyr. to show that he, especially, car
not live as well here in Wilmington o
81 week as he could II 81 80 in Scot
land
1t would, however, look much MOI
sensible for him to hurry back to SEQ
land, and forewarn his countryme
against igra ing to America. If
would do thi> hr m ghl prove a publ
benefactor To his people, and at lea
prevent the large emigration of his pc,
pie to country where so many har,
ships await 'li-m
We do no h ii .v", however, that l
will take oar livi -, hut would rattle
remain here ,nd suffer on 81 Il week
he be a laborrr, md The pickings tn;
may fall in h hands from the party /
has espou-ed fpr promulgating fire.
trade ideas. IL very generously offe
20 furnish rs ii Il the names of parti,
in Scotland sh sill give us addition
information in regard 10 the won.
and childreu IA iH"ss. We would
very glad to ,lcr,p' his kind offer, bu
while those women and children, wi
their husbands and tal htrs, are tieeil
by thousand, ft"m hat couLtry of ire
trade and o., fe>eion 10 "A country whe
labor is protyc#td, we need no turlh
proof thai th re- i, something radical
wrong at holl7, al that this country
preferable
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say that all th. Democrats were n
horse thiev - bar all horse thiey