Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-04-28

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That settles the labor question Cotton
hreadstnffs and provisions are the farm
er's wages, not his day wages Du, hIs
niece wages. They are all cheaper mere
man IN England Work by the piece =
,hprefore cheaper here than IN Englahu'
for hn,f the workers. Such being the
case. II their work is higher by the aay.
the fact must be attributed to something
besides the tariff.
Mes and most OF the other half OF the
people work cheaper by the piece than
they do in England. Especially u lns
true in manufactures. Our mahulaclulels
as a whole class have rs great advantages
over any other country ~ the FARMERS
have. have already called aIteht'ou -
these advantages The result Is tha'
American manufacturers get tnelr Wore
done for less labor expense than those 4l
any country 10 the world. Here Is u Io'lle
table worked out by our consul at run
stall. Mr.. J. Sehoenhof, showing the dalig
wages and wages per yard OF cotton mlll
operators in three countries;
Daily Wages per
Wages. 100 Yards,
u
may include Germany, "A toS 40 .6e
IN AM America i,s,, so to liz 40
So the pauper labor OF Europe is not so
cheap 10 The man who buys il and sells
its products as American labor IS Mr'
]. b. Sargent, of New Haven, the most
extensive hardware manufacturer III
America has told me over and over again
that the same is true in his business. and.
as he believes, in the great majority OF
American manufactures. This Is one
method OF proof that il is not the work'
inrman who gets the benefit Of the tariff.
He would be 4 pauper n he did. but he
doesn't. The tariff pauper is the mill
owner. He owns the goods when they
are made He sells them. lie pockets
the proceeds. He imports laborers. free
OF duty He joins trust, closes his mill
half the year, gets dividend Tor lying
idle and limiting production. and turns
his hands into the street 10 lie idle with
out dividend ard without wages.
Wages are lower in the protected than
in the unprotected industries, and the
wOrkingmen arc more generally foreign
ers and treated worse. Many Of them are
to all intcnts and purposes bought by the
ship load. like slaves. in Europe, OF the
$40, S54 persons engaged In strikes last
year, .t2.3i5. rr about one third, were IN
PENNSYLVANIA, the most highly protected
Of All the States. There were half Us
many strikers III Pennsylvania as in all
the rest Of the country together,
In lSSu the trustees placarded every
workshop IN the country with u compare
son Of wages in thirteen occupations be,
tween different European countries. New
York city and Chicago This was not a
fair comparison, because the United
States census Of manufacturers shows
that wages are - per cent higher in New
York city than in tho country As q whole
Without making any allowance for this,
and averaging the whole thirteen occa
patiOns. we have on the trustees own
authority:
Germaay-per week. .............,--....s 34t
England -...-'..-...r....,, "......,.,.. tt9
New York ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1913
England higher than Germany mi peF ceui,
New York higher than England III per sent.
Nearly double the relative difference
between England and Germany as be
tween New York and England, though
Germany protects and England aduus
German goods free ~ duty Our ceusus
Of 1880 shows wages IN wooden raanu
features:
Ohio-yeariy .........r... .--...,.......e lB
connecticut ~. ...-. ...... ,.s-....-,,.. I'D
Connecticut higher than Ohio 20 per cent.
Wages IN Gotten manufactures:
North Caroliun--yearly ...............s la5
New Jersey ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1I5
New Jersey higher than North Carolina ~
per cent
A greater relative difference in both
cases than even ret.hot prutectl0nisg
campaign card claimed between New
York city and England n the latter
difference Is caused BY the tariff. what
pray has created the othcrs2 While the
trustees were at II they ought 10 have
done a smoother job Of wage raisiag--or
deception.