St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
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Possibly 10 per cent. of the labor army
is idle throughout the United States. ae-
cOrding 10 an exchange. Employed labor Is
fer the most part paid the same wages as
last year. Prices of almost all commodities
and material are lower than last year.
Why. then, should there be so much COM
plant OF dUllneSs? The truth is. COM
plants come from the well-tO-do people
the sO-ealled middle clasSeS-becauSe mar
gins of profit are narrower and failures are
in progress at the rate Of about 10, 900 a
year. The bone and Sinew of the country.
at least the employed portion. are doing
wei. and would be prosperous if employ
ment were constant. The half-rich are the
people that are suffering.
Renewed complaints are made i'm foreign
manufacturing communities of dizziness be-
cause production is not curtailed while COM
petition is on the increase and consumption
on tine decrease. Experience is demonstrate
ing that cooperative enterprises may and
do flourish during prosperous and booming
times. but give out during bad times for
such reasons as these. When times become
depressed workers eat up all their earnings.
and as there is no sufficient surplus the con-
Germs must borrow. Besides, the corpora
tive concerns must run, because the neeeS-
stiles of the workers demand employment;
hence. there is tendency to oyerproduc-
ton and decline in prices.
There seems to be no end to the number
of Improvements in shOemaking machinery
The latest applicant for distinction is a
Nineland man. who has invented a machine
BY which one man can do what heretofore
has been done by two men and boy. An
other shoe man has patented heel made of
one solid piece of sole leather. 4 seven
story shoe factory. S0X94 feet in size. has
Just been completed in New York. Eight
thousand pairs of shoes will be turned out
weekly. The imports OF rubber show q
gradual increase of from Is, 600, 600 to "a
600. 600 pounds since 1881.
The Illinois and Iowa coal mine owners
are hopeful that the scheme tn keep high
STAGE of water in the Mississippi by dam
ming uD water in a few lakes for use in the
dry season will work. One lake of ninety
square miles has been raised twelve feet,
and another of two hundred square miles
has been raised four feet. The total sup
ply. II is estimated, by judicious use can in
crease the depth of water in the Mississippi
i'm dry seasons from three to five feet. II
this engineering feat can be accomplished
it would have a marked effect on industrial
interests i'm the great Northwest
House rent in Europe is apparently lower
than i'm America; but the inhabitants are
usually inferior to those in the United
States. CHANGING over the whole COMPARE
son of the life and wages of the European
and American artisan and reducing it TO a
conclusion clearing in mind that the hours
of work are about the same and the cost OF
living fairly ayeTaged), there can be no
doubt whatever but that the American
mechanic is nearly double as well off-as
well paid, housed and fed-as the European.
A Temperance movement has started
among the wOrkmen of Western Pennsyl-
yania. One labor leader has induced 1000
miners in the Monongahela valley to sign
the pledge. He will work through all the
mining regions. If ne can succeed in in
ducing the miners TO discontinue liquor
drinking, and then prevail on them TO buy
provisions in 500 or 81, 900 lots, he will
be deserving of their highest regard.
Greater effort is being made to devise
new machinery and appliances in all
branches of industry than ever before.
Competition has done its worst, and now
invention and designing are resorted TO to
find some cheaper way of accomplishing
greater results. This spirit of invention is
seeking advantages in every direction.
German manufacturing industries are
generally healthful. A great many Ger
mans have been educated in English shops
Some are now in American shops study
ing. with a view of adopting these advan-
tages in their native country. Besides this.
they are giving more attention to technical
| schools.
Wage-workers ought to have better tene
ments, says an Eastern paper. Men who
spend ten or eleven hours per day in Gloss
quarters, in constant toll. should have air.
homes. with yard surroundings. But these
things viii not be possible until rapid tran
! sit enables workers TO travel five or tel