Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-05

Anu L have Seeu lrOHn several sOuTces Dit-
ter attacks on Mr.. Cleveland for doing
this. The Irishmen will support Mr..
Cleveland because right here he met
them half way and that is all an Irish
man wants. He met them square, at the
right time, and in the right manner, and
when you have won an Irishnan's heart
you needn't look after his vote. You've
got it. He will attend to all that part.
They will support Mr.. Cleveland because
they have confidence In him. They have
seen him meet them once and they know
If the right time comes, when he can help
them more or their nation, he will do it.
And now Mr.. Stewart lights again in
saying that the tariff question is only a
question of wages. His argument is
''The ocean is but a stream, crossed in a
few days; so that that the situation is
practically this: Suppose that here
where we are was a mandatory paying
its operatives $3.50 a day and across the
street was one employing Cinnamon at
20 cents a day. What would result?
Why, the owner of the former establish
ment would be obliged to either lower
wages to the level of what the other man
paid or to give up business"
We now reach the question of wages
and here is the pivotal point of the whole
question. 1t is here that the protection
lists are weak and they know it. The de-
fusion that a tax put IN to aid the man.
ufacturers protects some other fellow is
about exploded, But we leave this ques-
ton a moment to analyze Mr.. Stewards
arguments on wages and clothes, and will
then return to it.
In the cost of manufacture the question
is not, what is the price of wages. 1t is
rather the cost of the labor that goes in
to the article manufactured. And if there
were two such extremes on opposite
sides of a street as labor employed at
, 81. 80 and 20 cents a day, the question
would still be how much work the S1.5C
, man did for his money and how much the
20-cent one did for his. 1t might be thai
q the first one did ten times the labor of the
second. If so, his is the cheapest labor
] We have already shown that in a number
u of large industries American labor /:
. cheaper than that elsewhere. The labor
4 ers are paid more by the day, but they
: do more and enough more so that thei
q labor is the cheapest. And we have seel
that this is due in part to the increased
celebrity with which they work as well a
the increased number of hours. and il
# part to the improved machinery tina
q they work with. Those of us who en-
# ploy labor know that when it become
y necessary to discharge some hands, no
the ones we pay the most to, but thos
we hire the cheapest, we let 90. Tn
dearer man we cannot afford to let 90
n his services are worth too much. He i
in fact, the cheaper laborer.
We add here to the Information alread
given on this point the following test
mony of J. b. Sargent, the great hare
ware manufacturer of New Haven, Conn
Il before referred to-, given by a CORE,
pondent of the New York Times:
" CHOW THEY YORK ABROAD
"'I.et me tell you how men work
"a Germany. They begin at > in the mo
* ming. At S they quit for an hour ft
breakfast. Then they fill their pipes an
lr saunter back to their benches. About
49, they knock off for beer and sausages. b
" the time their pipes are filled again a
30 hour has passed. At l o'clock they 9
- home to dinner. That takes anoth,
al hour. They must have more beer at
Along about 3 or G they go home to SUI
al per for an hour and come back and wor
ne until s. That is the way they hay
Is always done and Away will. They ca
it Is hours work a day.
IT, "'Now here is.a bookkeeping hing
a 1t has been riveted and finished. We pa
for the labor on it Is cents a gross. In
to German shop the labor costs 10 cents
as dozen. Our product is quite as good
piece of work as theirs. Our men WI
"a do it make 81 a day against 40 cents ma,
lie in Germany. We work 10 hours a da.
We but we don't stop for beer and sausas
ly or pipes, and we have improved machi
he cry to aid the handwork,
"'rhe springs in that hinge said NJ
is Sargent, ARE made by a little machil
a that costs $500. a German manufactu
er er would think it wonderful extravaganza
Ike Nothing of the kind is used there. The
re turn their springs on a hand-pow
p apparatus
of "Mr. Ruff took up a chain bolt. TT
n body of the bolt is nicely finished.
re passes through four hands before it
done, and the labor on the product is
m cents per gross. He said that Germ;
10. labor on such a bolt would certainly co
id, IS cents per dozen. One man was enga
ed in turning brass knobs which came
y him from the casting to be polished. ]
at had a neat machine and knew how