Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-09
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10 Tie POINT.
The New York san to the New York
wUrAingmen.


The New York san to the New York
worxibgmen,
New York Sun: There is only one
country in Europe In which the wages
OF labor are within half oil what they
are in this country. That is Great Btl-
tam.
wages io Germany, France, Belgium
and Switzerland are not one-shiId oi
what they are here. Those OF Italy nre
cot one quarter.
One duty of government is to protect
the labor of its cltizsns Last year
cheap foreign labor was imported into
the United States in the shape OF mann
!aetnred goods TO the value of $6923l9,-
1853, This was, - great wrong to Ameri- :
can labor. In that immense amount OF
imports, permitted by our insufficient
and defective tariff, the labor OF women
employed in the Manchester, England,
cotton mills, whose wages do not aver
age $50 year. came into compatition
with the higher priced labor OF our
southern ana northern cotton spinners.
In that mass Of imports was the labor of
German faatory workmen averaging less
shan $115 year, and that OF women
averaging less than $50 year.
Munich is gallery and entirely of art.
German women with as many as six
children saw wood in its streets for Is
cents day. May merciful God Hink
the United States ten thousand feet un-
der the ssa before the hi,ieous spectacle
Bhall become an incident OF our civili-
zationl
Nearly seven hundrel million dollars
worth of the starvation labor OF Europe
in the form of manufactured goods inn
ported into this country last yeari That
which came from Belgium in bales and
boxes represented the wages of % cents
q day for women and 43 cents for men
and the highest priced labor in loose
cargoes OF Belgium steel and iron rep
resented wages less than 80 cents dag.
Compared with these the wages OF Oar
negie's men at Braddock are the incomes
OF princes.
italian labor in italian merchandise
sss imported into this country last year
in competition with American labor, q,
prices that should Eli sensitive souls
with horror end alarm the thoughtfu
for the future OF the human race. The
nay in the cotton factories OF Naples il
20 cents day; of the Neapolitan marble
and granite cutters, from 40 TO so cent,
a day, according to skill. of eoachmsn
80 GENTS; OF women in lace factories IL
cents, and girls, Z cents; OF soldiers il
the army $2a month. OF ell the work
men in the glass works OF Italy, only thu
skilled blowers receive as high as ST. {
day, and laborers on farms, hoeing o.
making hay. from Is tolls cents day
working from sun TO sun, God say,
| America from such wages.
into our ta.f protected country last
year in those $500 100000 OF in ports
| was the skilled labor OF men as Al cent,
day and OF women at 70 cents, botf
competing with the elk weavers of Pat.
terson, New York, PhiIadelphia. ant
Cheney. Glasgow, in Scotland, is the
lsteamship factory OF the world, and 1T
blast furnace owners and and iron roller
howl for free trade day and night. q
the families IN that manufacturing
Sodom. Al 900 out OF 100 900 live in on,
room, and half OF the men and womel
in the city are chronicaliy out OF work
i That one room for a family OF father
mother, daughters and sons tells wha
wages are in Scotland, and how the,
drag humanity down into bestiality ant
misery
| Brothers, the Mills bill to reduce th
tariff is the first step to that one room
for an American family. Fight it with
ont delay, and fight ii to its death; an
then make your tariff SO protective as t,
shut out cheap foreign labor IN the form
OF manufactured goods.