The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-06
PAUPER LABOR.
By James Fleming.

By James Fleming.
Monopoly is rejoicing their ~favorite and
%obsequious tool, James G. Blaine (who has
fattened on their bounty, has com like
Napoleon to lead their hosts, to victory and
plumber, to another Austerli,z they hope; let
them beware Of another Waterloo. If high
taxation is such a blessing to the wage
workers, causing plenty and prosperity how
is it that it has been testified before the con-
gressional committee sitting in New York,
when James G. landed, that girls who for
merly earned SO per week making shirts,
ETC., cannot now earn 81. One extract will
suffice as q fair example: Miss Helen
Aukner, q worker on rubber goods, testi-
fed !: ..'
"Six years ago it was possible to earn $40
per week, but now an expert could not earn
IS. The people who did this work now
were Russians and Slavs, while formerly
girls did il. She knew men who were work
ing for contractors for about So per week,
and she knew several women who were ex-
perts, who would be perfectly satisfied, if
they could earn 81 to Is cents q day and
work hard for it. The men were able to live
this way because their expenses were small.
They would buy two pound of beef on Sum-
day, have it cold on Monday, stew it on
Tuesday, and make soup on Wednesday, but
an American girl could not live this way"
Talk about the rauper labor in Europe /!
Talk about the high tariff being the only
barrier against the reduction of the wages
Of the American working man to the basis
Of the starvation wages Of England. Talk
about the blessing Of " protec ting American
labor against the competition Of foreign pau
per-" "To protect SO it is alleged, Ameri-
can tailors and to raise their wages, there is
q duty of 40 per cent levied on ready-made
clothes imported from abroad, a forty cents
on every dollars worth Of goods, or $4on
each $40 worth. Now how much Of this
does the American tailor get? Not a penny,
not a farthing !; his wages are shown to be
about the same as those paid in London
England, while in fact his living is more
expensive. The American manufacturer,
having squeezed down his wages to the
'.pauper labor" basis, levies and collects
from the people Of this country a tax Of 40
cents on each dollars worth of ready made
clothing and for the most part shoddy and
worthless clothing At that, and pockets it.
Great is protection Great is its high
priest and prophet James G.. Blaine! Mr..
Blaine oyerlowing with gratitude to his
masters who hive made him rich, says on
his reception speech:
aThere is no need to make laws to protect
capital. Capital always takes care OF itself,
and gets a full share"
Aud he might have added and other peo-
PIES share, as for the last twenty-five
years Mr.. Blaine and,his friends have been
violating the spirit if not the letter Of our
constitution to make . few hundred million
aires, at the expense Of the millions who
toll this seems bitter irony ; mon working
on the Pennsylvania coal fields for 60 cents .
day. 'Bread and molasses, their chief diet
with : few potatoes and corn meal thrown
III, meal VAly OuCO VIVA AVs 0oA0 "
put shoes on their children. as they often
only get Is days work III the month" Who
gets the benefit of the 10 cents per ton duty
on coal Mr.. Blaine's friends, go to the
graveyards adjoining the coal field, and see
the numerous graves Of children under IL
years Of age who we're hurried into pre-
mature graves ~ working o. the deadly
coal breakers. These monopol;stsl are they
martys. 90 20 New York where naen,women
md children are huddlsd together Il the
rate of v hundred thousand 10 the square
mile the unf~ortunates who make Al. rcady
made clothiin,g IA foul smelling houses, ~
modld5 cellars, ete.,vhere y seems irnpossi-
30 "a hve, much. less % work, Hers shsir
lives AZ passed. forcyer engaged II 4 6ercs
efrnggle With want; slaves 81 roverty bound
with Sstters thsy cannot bseak, they toil ~
inaiInatiysllyaunti I An retsass comes .nd t q
ressy srs; u -, rherp hunger M isn't
sss unknoxn. Thsss. nonspee IN highh
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~ snseg Bleiae