St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-23

world. But you do not. Here are the figures,
not of comparison with England, but other
countries:
The exports Of manufactured goods from
the countries named are as follows:
Total. Per Head.
Germany. ............ .S2S4 ZOO, 900 So. 81
France I15, SOC, 900 An
Netherlands ... 49,200000 II. 90
United States. Al, 800 coo SO
After all these years OF protection, after all
the coddling of infant industries, the United
States sells to foreign countries manufac-
tured goods amounting to less than 81 per
head. Germany exports six times as much.
France four times, and the Netherlands
twelve times.
TIE PAUPER LABOR OF EUROPE.
''But,'' says Brother Jonathan. ''your
reasoning may be good, but are you not will
ing to submit to some loss for the benefit of
the working classes of this country! Think
of those poor, hard-working men, trying to
raise honest families and fill the part of
worthy citizens; do you want to see them
reduced to the level of the pauper labor Of
Europe? Don't you know that if you don't
keep out the English goods these men will
be thrown out of work and will starve?"
''But on the other hand" the farmer re-
plies, ''your tariff does not insure them
high prices or even work. When you manu-
faeture goods at a price above the
worlds price you necessarily shut those goods
out of the worlds market; you are then
wholly dependent on the home market, and
that home market you are steadily depicting
by charging your customers two prices for
what you sell them. They begin to econ
omize and retrench; your home m arket be-
comes over-stocked; you cannot go into the
worlds market; and you have no remedy
but to close up your factories and mines and
furnaces and turn the workmen out to
starve.
SWARMING TRAMPS UNDER A HIGH TARIFF.
a few years ago the whole land thus
swarmed with millions OF tramps, and all
this under the high tariff. Now again you
are shutting up the coal mines and iron fur
naces and factories to maintain unnatural
prices and thousands are turned adrift: five
thousand coal miners are now idle in one
coal valley of Pennsylvania. And those
who oworll are lily paid With all your
pretenses of love for the laborer as soon as
your profits are reduced you reduce his
wages: and if he is not satisfied you send
your agent to Belgium, or Poland or Hun
gary, or Italy, and import great hordes OF
wretched peasants at low prices, at sixty
cents per day, under labor contracts; and
L. ~, -.
or starve.
''What is the use of shutting out the goods
made by the pauper labor of Europe, if you
admit free the pauper labor that made the
goods?"
LIVING ON RICE AND RATS.
If congress had not interfered you would
have placed Monaghan, who could live on
rice and rats, Laughter, at the elbow OF
every American workman, and reduced him
to Asiatic Indebtedness. Your devilsh arts
have filed American laborers with discon-
tent, despair and communism; you are IN
dermining the very foundation OF the re-
public by creating class who, having nc
hope of any improvement in their condit-
ion, have come to regard
property and government as theil
mortal enemies; and on the slightest provo
cation they will break out into riots, such as
those of Pittsburg and Cincinnati. From
such anarchy there is no refuge if your
policy is to continue, but strong govern
ment, and that means the end OF free gov
eminent.
And how much better of are your pro
tected workmen than the unprotected work
men of England! John Bright says they
are not as well off. For instance, in Raritan,
New Jersey, the workmen in the WOODEN
mills, (proteeted) earn from so to 90 cent:
per day, and then they have to buy Their
goods at the corporation stores, and pay
high rent to the corporation for the houses in
which they live A member of congress
gave an instance Of a case in his own dis
trict in New England, where children wert
working in a garnet at fifteen cents per day
while the protected" manufacturer who
employed them made $75,O 900 per year.
HOW THE WOMEN WORK IN PENNSYLVANIA
Ex-NTayor Powderly, of Scranton, Penn,
gives the following terrible picture of the
women who work in the Connellsville coke
regions Of PENNSYLVANIA: 'At one of the
ovens he saw woman half naked drawing
the hot coke from the chamber. She had ne
covering on her head and very little on hel
person. Her appearance was that of one
whose spirit had been broken by hardship
and hard work. Her attire consisted of
coarse chemise aud pair of cowhide boots
;yr1,t al. lE-c
man slowing the coke as it came to the ear
She stood in the doorway and was dressed il
a rough loose-ftting outer garment and an
apron Her person from the waist up wal
exposeG. Her feet were encased in pair o
heavy shoes, and her legs were exposed from
the knees down. Other scenes were wors,
than these Is there anything in the pa Ipe
labor of Europe worse than this.'
PRICES OF LABOR UNDER THE PROTECTIVE
TARIFF.
In Pittsburg skilled workmen are working
for 90 cents a DAY, and in the Pennsylyani;
coal mines, (protected), the miner earns
when he can get work, sixty cents per day
In the Hooking Valley, Italian laborers, i'm
ported under labor contracts, at 60 cent
per day, displaced the Americans; thu
Americans were wiling to work at 40 cent
per day; but the mine owners refused to EN-
ploy them, told them they had 5000 foreign
ers ready to take their places land on July IA
last. riots broke out among the Americans, an,
1870 of Pinkerton's police had to be detailed
10 guard the Italians. And this is what il
called protecting American industry, an,
it is for this we are compelled to pay higl
prices for everything We buy"
OUR SURPLUS WHEAT CROP.
az recent article in the New York Sw
shows that this year our crop Of wheat will b.
100000. 900 bushels; our old wheat on hanC
40 900. coo bushels, total 500, 600, COO: on
boosted home market win eat $50, GOO, 00t
bushels, or less Than one-haIt; our seed TO
next crop will require 10000, 600 bushels
the reserve carried over to next wear will be