Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-14

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Thus i caly o1s country IN Europs
N which The wages Il labor srs vii1sip
ahaR Of what they azs IN this country.
That i Gfsat Britain.
Wages IN Germany, Franco Bslsium
and Switssrland szs mot -thirl q
what they ars here. Thoss Of It.ly ~
not one quarssr. One duty Of gown
msat il to protsct the labor oe n a.
issns. Last year cheap forsien lnfor
was imported into the United StaAop =
the shape Of manufactured goods % -
value Of $685., S19.76a This Wa ereet
wong to American Labor. In thai In
msnss amount Of imports permitted by
our insufficient and detective taxi6. t6e
labor Of women employed in The Nanch-
chester, England, cotton mills, vhoao
wages do not average $50 . year. camo
INTO composition with the higher priced
labor Of our southern and northern co.
ton spinners. In that mass of imports
was the labor Of German factory work
men averaging less than $115 . year.
and that Of women averaging less than
$50 . year.
Munich il gallery and center Of art
German women with e many a nix
children saw wood in it's streets for Is
cents day. May q merciful God sink
the United States 10000 feet under The
sea before the hideous spectacle shall
become an incident OF our civiizstionl
Nearly 500, 000,O 600 worth Of the
starvation labor Of Europe in the form
OF manufactured goods was imported IN
to this country last year! That which
came from Belgium in bales and boxes
represented the wages of % cents day
for women and 43 cents for mon; and
tho highest priced labor in loose car
goes of Belgian steel and iron repre-
scented wages less than 80 cents q jsy.
Compared with these the wages of Car
negie's men at Braddock are the incomes
of princes.
italian labor in italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year,
in competition with American labor, at
prices that should fill sensitive souls
with horror, and alarm the thoughtful
for the future of the human race. The
pay in the cotton factories of Naples 10
20 cents q day; of the Neopolitan mar
BILE and granite cutters from 40 to so
cents day. according to skill; of COACH
men 30 cents; of women in lace fac
tories 10 cents, and girls Z cents; Of
soldiers in the army, 50 q month. OF
all the workmen in the glass works of
Italy, only the skilled blowers receive a.
high as 81 day, and the laborers on
arms, heeing or making hay. from Is
% 18 cents day, working from sun to
'un. God save America from such
wages!
In the Swiss silk goods which came
nto our half-proteoted country last year
q those 500, 900, 900 of imports, was the
killed labor of men at Al cents day
nd Of women at 20 cents, both compst-
ng with the silk weavers of Patterson,
lew York, Philadelphia aud Cheney.
Glasgow, in Scotland, is the steamship
actory Of the world, and its blsst-fur-
ace owners and iron rollers howl for
rec trade day and night. OF the fami-
les in that manufacturing Sodom, A..
100 out of 100, 900 live in one room, and
af Of the men and women in the city
re chronicaily out of work. That one
r>oYn For q fuuo;1v ~ bothop matthias
daughters andsons tells what wages e
q Scotland, and how they drag huml
y down Into bestiality and misery. =
Brothers, the Mills bill to reduce IT,
arif is the first step to that one room
or an American family. Fight it with
ut delay, and fight it to its death; aud
hen make your tariff 20 protective a. 70
nut cut cheap foreign labor in the form
[ manufactured goods.