Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-09-27
A Short Talk to WOrkinsmen.


From, the Nelc York Sun. (DsmocrGtc.)
There is only one country In Europe In which
the wages of labor are within a half of what they
are IN this country. That Is Great Britain.
Wages in Germany, France, Belgium, and Swift
erl:lnd are not one-third of what they are here.
Those OF Italy are not onc-quarter. Last year
cheap foreign labor was imported into the
United States in the shape Of manufactured
goods to the value of SGG2, 3l976S. This was
great wrong to American labor In the 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 average $50 year, came into COM
petition with the higher priced labor Of our
southern and northern cotton spinners.
Munich is a gallery and center of art. Ger
man women with as many rs six children saw
wood in its streets for 10 cents II day. May
mercifu God sink the United States ten thOus-
and feet under the sea before the hideOus spec
tacle shall become an incident of our civilization!
Nearly seven hundred million dollars worth
OF the starvation labor of Europe In the form OF
manufactured goods imported into this country
last year! That which came from Belgium In
bales and boxes represented the wages OF - cents
I: day for women and 81 cents for men; and the
highest priced labor in loose cargocs of Belgian
steele and iron represented wages less than so
cents Il day.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise was i'm
ported into this country last year, in competition
with American labor, at prices that should NIL
sensitive souls with horror, and alarm the
thoughtful for the future Of the human race. The
pay In the cotton factories of Naples is 20 cents
a day of the NeapOlitan marble and granite cut
ters from 40 to 20 cents day according to skill;
of COachmen, 80 cents; of women In lace factories
10 cents, and girls cents; of soldiers In the
army, 81 Il month OF all the workmen in the
glass works of Italy, only the skilled blowers re-
ceiyc as high as dollar day, and laborers on
FARMS hOeing or making hay, from 10 to Is cents
u day, working from sun to sun. God save
America from such wagcS
In the Swiss silk goods which came into our
country last year in those seven hundred millions
of imports, was the skilled labor Of men at II
cents day, and of women at ten cents, both
competing with the silk weavcrS of Paterson,
New York, Philadelphia, and Cheney.
Glasgow, in Scotland, is the largest steamship
factory of the world, and its blast furnace owners
and iron rollers howl for free trade day and
night. OF the families in that manufacturing
Sodom Al 900 out of 100000 live in one room, and
half Of the men and women in the city are out OF
work. That one room for family OF father,
mother, daughters and sons tells what wages are
in Scotland, and how they drag humanity down
into beStaty and misery.
Brothers! the Mills hill to reduce the tariff Is
the first step to that one room for IN American
family, Fight 1t without delay, and fight 1t to its
death; and then make your tariff 80 protective
rs to shut out cheap foreign labor in the form OF
manufactured goods.