Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-10-22

AND AMERICAN FIGUREs.
The other day | went into the iron
| works here. The owner employs 200
men making steel wagon springs.
They are shipped to France, England
| and America.
When / asked the splendid work.
men what they were getting day for
! their skilled labor al The forge, they
| said:
Seventy cents (319 francs) day,
sir"
But how can you live on thatt" l
| asked, for | see you eat American
| -four and American bacon. which costs
more here in Belgium than in Amer
| ica,'
well, we don't eat so much as they
do in America" they said. We
never think of eating meat oftener
than twice a week. We live on soups
and vegetables. We live about as
badly as the Chinese. We wear cotton
| clothes only. Our s;omuchs are
accustomed TO famine. Dry, black
bread tastes good to us. They say you
had DR.. Tanner in America who
lived forty days on water. We do =
good deal rs DIR. Tanner did"
| What the man said was true, for
this 70 cents would not boy so much
food In Belgium as il will in Cleve-
land.
| From the workmcn | went TO the
mill owner. He lived in nice house
and kept carriage. He was a nice
Christian man, VINO loved his men.
He had been forge man himst II once.
"Why do you not pay your men
higher wages!" asked. :" Such men
get So 50 in Cleveland, Ohio"
" | he reason is this" he said.
ship my wagon springs to America.
l have to pay $40 on every 500 worth
of springs sent there. That $40 comes
of my mem, wages. If it come of
me l would bs ruined in day"
But they pa, SO 80 IA day IN Amer.
lea" | suggested.
:" Yes; but they are protected there,
The manufacturer gets $40 more for
every 500 worth of his springs than
do. That $40 enables him to pay these
high wages. His men get every cent
of it,"
but suppose they should reduce
the tariff in America. as Congressman
Frank Hurd aud the Democratic parry
generally want them 10Y" | asked.
Well, the price Of wagon-spfings
would fall 40 per cent. We would
ship our springs there if springs were
higher than III Belgium and nil tie
market You do MOI think The Yam
KEGS could pay 81 80 per day for
labor and make springs rs cheaply as
We can and pay our men 70 cents; do
! your
Would reduction of the tariff in
America break up their iron.worksy"
! l asked.
No" said the Belgian ut
wouldn't break them up, but they
would have to shut uown for II while"
well, how lpngy'
i why, until the American workman
was starved down into working for 70
cents day. Then they'd START up
again, Then Belgium and the United
States would he alike. Both would
have the same priced labor. America
+ is nov the only nation ON the globe
that pays So 90 Il day for labor. She
does il because she has ,aritf."
Then why don't you go over there
and star! a manufactoryg" | asked.
, btCauSc 1 NOulu Uc lIO uctttI ou
than here. My men would get almost
four times rs much wages AS here; but
l, as a mill owner, would make no
more money. make MS much money
here as could in America. You see
live in nice house., | could do no
more in America. Ii is laborng
man in America that is hene fitted by
the tariff, not the mill owner"
But there is Il Congressman in
Ohio, Frank Hurd,' said, VINO add.
vocales taxing oil this tariff"
There is?"
Yes; he advocates il publicly"
! And laboring men listen to him?'
Yes"
And don't know that this Hurd
would take the bread out of their
childrea's mouths; yes, starve them
down TO 70 cents day."
"Oh," said, II suppose he fools
some of them"
Well he said, I'm an old man.
I've worked At the forge for so cents
day myself, and say feeling y that
a man so ignorant and wicked as 10
injure the worliingmen of America
why Il csc workingmen ought 10 rise
up IN their indignat ion AID sweep nim
from the earth. He isn' iii to receive
the votes of u free people."-Belgium
correspondence Ctepesand Leader.
BUFFERS BIRTHDAY.
Ben Butler was born in 1918, on the
9th OF November. He will celebrate
his sixty seventh birthday while The
election returns are coming IN most