The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-10-06

country is but twelve days FROM New
York. Near as NV Y TX aud WASH
lngtou III cost OF transpui Latlun oI freight
Ii doesn cost IA quarter Of Il cent wand
to bring goods here from | ally. | aly's
navy could blow onrs out al he waiter i'll an
hour. Men make 20 cents IA day and board
themselves, women, IA cents. He no
tlced particularly expert woman and
obtained the consent OF the manager to
examine the pay roll OF the mill To see
what wages she was paid. For 20 days
she had averaged l. cts. This woman had
worked III the mills Tor AZ Years. Italy
blossoms like IA rose. Most OF the Ian IN
ing is done by women. Twenty cents !.
day Is the highest they receive. The
driver Of the hack which the speaker
used for number OF days received 90
ceuts. They live ON macaroui aud grease
If the American laboring man wants to
receive these wages and that kind of
living let him vote the Democratic ticket
November 6.
lu Switzerland which the speaker Wis
tied painters and plasterers L, ctlved 65:ts
per day. In BE- lglum women won k Tor 90
10 % cents per day. Belgium sent 20
millions of steel aud iron 10 England III
q year and is driving hat country to the
wall and taking hall of IFS colonial trade
The condition of the workingman has
improved since the lallff of 1879 Was
adopted there. Wages have Increased
10 per cent. Yet men ouly average $125
and women $50 year aud keep them
selves aud families. Tire SPEAKER saw
thlne women saving wuo.;. Twu of them
said they got 20 eents 4 Day me other
VINO Appeared the strongest OF the three
only received Is cents. Not uu,iersf and
ing the reason OF the discrimiua tion the
Senator secured auIuterpreter. He found
that the woman had several children
who commanded part OF her attention.
She speuG 10 cents Of the amount she
earned Tor, scrapIugs nom hotel
Tor her children and had the Other cents
to supply her own wants. miliions want
work IN England and cannu, get II. The
rate OF wages Is fixed by the < eed OF the
employ er and necessity OF the employt d.
There wer, 5000 silk rkeIs in England
Low there ale but 1000. Half the fan IN
land in f gland is mortgaged.
Some one had told The speaker that
wages were AS high III Scotland as in the
United States. He kI,w this not to be
SO. When in Scotland he visited the
mills OF ut, IL 60, cotton mainiac
JuIOio III slSltN. he EXAMINE. ii Gle pay
Ioll and found hat tie operatives
averaged 81 IS week He alterw ards
| examined Inc pay roll OF mill of the
| same size belonging to the same company
at Pa" tucket, Rhode Island, and there
| the employees averaged SS per week.
| More than three times as much. The
population OF Ireland nad been reduced
under free trade from eight to four mil
| hons. The Senator referred to the claim
that the farmer WIS suffering from the
| tariff ON salt and showed its absurdity
| Every thing almost had become che apel
under the tariff, clockery ware was lie
duced 40 per cent nd over, glass as
much. dress goods so per cent. carpets
over so p r cent. Tue speaker closed his
address after a few eIt queut remarks t,
the ladies in the ball, with a fine por
trayal OF the possibilities a. the American
you'll ia king the at Pr. sid tGartield e
An example. Senator Frye was often inter.
rupted i'll his remarks by applause and at
the close theie was. great cheering. Tnt
chairman proposed three cheers for the
) nator aud they were given with will
tie afterwards proposed the same fol
| Hal: Isuu and Merton which were given
with spirit. Tire mceil"g hsI AZ jrurued