Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-04-27
CONSUL "LIE ALL. "

In his report on the trade of Tex
as for the past year, Mr.. Lyall, Con.
sui at Galveston, shows how the
high tariff of the United States af-
fects the cost of living of the work.
ing classes. The expenses OF a
wOrkingman with wife and six
children, or of a small farmer with
the same family, will be, he says,
for the first year, at the most rea.
sonable estimate, 5000, or about
ESQ. OF this he pays about eco
to aid the "protected" manufactur-
ers. lie pays so per cent. on wool
EN- clothing, 10 per cent. on cottons,
so per cent. on "nOtiOns," 80 per
cent. on shoes, % per cent. on
leather, GO per cent. on chlnaware
ana 40 per cent. on cutlery-Or on
the average about 40 per cent.
taxes on actual necessarles. The
American workman earns higher
wages than the European, but he
has to pay about twice as mnch for
everything he purchases, and gets
fewer and inferior articles for his
money. Clothing is more than
twice as dear az in London, and the
alleged cheapness OF provisions in
the United States "s an entire fc-
tIOn." In the towns, especially in
the Southern States, the cost Of
living is double or treble what it is
in Europe. Country people live
cheaply because they live on their
own produce, and buy nothing eX-
cept flour, tobacco, sugar and cof
fee. ain consequence Of the tariff
they cannot afford to buy decent
clothing, and are almost to a man
ragged and meanly dressed.h-LOn-
dOR Times, March 10, 1888.
Lie /. His expenses under such
conditions need not be over $500.
Lie 2. He need not pay 81 for
this purpose unless he bought i'm
ported broadcloths and imported
silks, etc.
"Lie 3. He does not pay eighty
per cent. on his wooden clothing,
because ready made wooden cloth
ing is as cheap here as it ia in Eng
land.
Lie 4. He does not pay thirty.6ve
per cent. on his cotton goods, be-
cause all manufactures OF cotton OF
general consumption are cheaper
here and better than in England.
Lie 8, 6 and 7. Notions and hose
are as cheap and leather goods are
cheaper here than in England. The
reference to china Is partial lie.
American ware is not sixty per cent.
higher than the same quality OF i'm
ported ware.
Lie 8. American cutlery is sold
in Sheffield in competition with
English. The statistics of expOrta-
ton show this. How can it, there
fore, be forty-fye per cent. higher
Lie 9. The cost of living here is
not twice as high as it IS in Eng
land. Official statistics show that
it is only seventeen per cent. high
er; wages, however, are double.
Lie 10. Ready made clothing and
all garments used by the masses Of
the people, including blankets, are
as cheap in New York as in Lon
don, and the Press will face all the
liars, including Consul Lie.alI, on
this question with the facts and the !
Lie IL. Food is cheaper here than |
in England, including tea and cot
fee, which are both taxed in Eng !
and and on the free list here. To.
bacco is taxed 1000 per cent. in
England.
Lie 12. The children OF the Amer
can wage earners are better dress
"a, better fed, better cared for, bet
Ter taught, better bred and have a
better chance to get along in this
world than the miserable offspring
Of the slaves of cheapness in the
east end of London, whose weekly
earnings, according to an official re-
port recently made to the House Of
Lords, IN busy times with full work
amounts to $3.50 per week. And
Tar better of than the children of
The wage Garner in the industrial
owns OF the United Kingdom.
Aud this makes one dozen One
iozen lies in two dozen lines. Tex
as papers please copy. No wonder
Tom Ochlltree lett the state.-Ne'c
YORK. Press.