Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-11

FIVE to eight cents a day. In a cot
ton mill at Vesuvius / found they
worked any number of hours for
twenty cents day. They got forty
cents in marble yard. The best
wages We're sixty cents u day. In
America the same, men would get
four dollars day. Ny drivers din
ner was macaroni and greese, boiled
together. In free, glorious Switzer-
land / saw a gardener who got $50
La year and a few vegetables. A
herdsman gets forty cents a day for
three months, and thirty cents the
treSt of the season. 81 n8ii s. s,t
"" In Belgium, in the bee hive and
garden the women do all the work.
They are yoked with horses aud
dogs, aud they get twenty cents. a
day. In q lace mill u fine operative
could earn twenty cents q day.
Forty cents a day is good wages for
a man. In Belgium they are COM
peting with you, and sending iron,
silk and lace right into your mark
cts. Were there no tariff they
would food you. Belgium and Ger.
many aud France have swept the
silk trade out of free trade England.
In Munich saw four women in the
cold and sleet saving wood, and car.
trying it into the store on their heads,
and they said they got twenty cents
a piece day. One made only
fifteen cents day, because she had
| five children at home. She said she
took ten cents and bought the first
wastings OF restaurant plates, and
that supported her children.
1 WOMEN ALL OVER GERMANY
work out of doors for twenty cents q
day. Almost every woman literally
carries a German soldier on her
back. In $50 iron and steel factor
les the average wages per week is
S4,25 a man. Germany sent mil.
lions of dollars worth of goods here
last year. In the black betting Eng.
land you will see twenty five miles
of smoking stacks, where thirty
thousand women and children are
making nails. A man and wife and
child make SAT- II week. In Lon
don alone there are one million pau
pers. How can wages be good with
that number in the poor-house In
the Liverpool docks every day | saw
one thousand men wandering about
hungry and sad, asking for an hours
work to buy bread for their starving
children. In Ireland you will find
hundreds following your carriage
begging for penny to buy bread.
There are paupers everywhere.
Over one half of the farmers are
out of employment. In England
they work for shilling a day, and
that cuts off the Irish. You can
hire women to work out all day for
twenty cents. In Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, where they do the same as
in Scotland, the wages are three
times as high. | could go On at this
tor hours. | ask you, do you wish
your country to compete with coun-s
tries like these? Ii you do vote the
Democratic ticket. A colored man,
"No, sir = The Democrats m sa
SAY WHAT CLEVELAND SAYS, r.
and don't know any more than he
does about the tariff. They say it
costs you more to live here, though
you get higher wages. Sugar, beef,
bacon, bread and other necessaries
are cheaper in Frederick than in any
country in Europe. We send over
there all these things, and do we
send three thousand miles, and sell
them for less? Not much; we are
not fools. They say clothes are
cheaper there. Get giece of goods
over there and have it made up, and
you will never wear it but once.
Why? Because they do not pay
their workmen. The journeyman in
America owns the boss. You can
buy the same clothes, in better style
and cheaper here than you can in
Liverpool or London. / ask any
man to name any single product
that has sprung up here under the
protective tariff that is not cheaper
by % per cent. than when the Tariff
was enacted in 1861. Look at crock.
cry alone. To-day we are making
it in every state except Florida.
The capital in it is S30,0O0,000, and
to-day you can buy more crockeTy
for 50 than You could for seven in
1861. We have got $4,000 people
to day making silk, and the annual
payroll is s9,0O0,0O0. All the silks
have gone down from 90 to 40 per
cent. Worsted goods have gone
down from 40 to 80 per cent, and
wages have gone up from so to 80
per cent. They are higher to-day
than ever in our history, and dollar
will buy more than it ever did. We
buy worsted goods abroad and then
name the price. You put on a pro.
tective tariff and that encouraged
capital to come out of banks, and
competition and new machinery has
brought it about that they are sell
ing o5 per cent. less than in Eng
land. Competition has done some
thing, you see.
Livery year since 1861, when the
Morrill, tariff bill was passed, our re
public has increased in population
one million more than Great Britain
: Austria and Holland combined
Every year we have
LAID BY ONE BILLION DOLLARS
for a rainy day-eDongh money in
fifteen years to bny the whole Of
Spain. In twenty years, notwith-
standing the war, the United States
increased one hundred and sixty pei
cent. We consume twice as much
as England. Germany, France, Aus
tria and Holland combined. This
is grand republic. It is blessed
/. country tor the average man and