Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-07-25

States i pay men who excavate tor l
the foundation from 81 to S1-40 u
day, and the men who work IN the |
quarry and set the stone from S1-5O |
to 81 day the painters from 81 to |
% day the quarriers of slate from |
S1-50 to 3 day the masons who |
lay the bricks from 81 to 50 a day
and when my mill is complete it has
cost me 100000. ninety per cent of
the whole being moneyipaid for labor.
| step across into New Haven, for
the time being England, and l pro
ceed to erect the same mill. To the
men who excavate / pay from As to
60 cents day to those who quarry
the rock and lay the foundation from
90 to 50 aents a day to the brick
makers from 80 to so cents per day.
l go to Staffordshire and hire, it may
be, 100 women to make my bricks,
and pay them 81 cents q thousand !;
or, IL NAV be, hire some little girls,
barefooted and bareheaded, from 10
to Il years of age, to carry the wet
clay j. my brick yard on their E'tle
hare heads. from 6 to S cents a day.
! pay my masons at from as to So
cents per day my slaters 81 day ::
M painters from S0cents to 81 a day :;
and when my mill is completed it has
cost me 100000. Why this mill
2OO-O 600 and the mill in Woodstock
S40O,00 What makes this immense
difference in cost Remember that
the mill Is 80 per cent labor.
Remember that the trees in our
forests, the clay in our banks, the
stone ard siai. 40 our auarries. :he
coal In our mines and the iron in the
earth, are as cheap as in Europe
What, then. makes the mill here cost
twice as much as there Clearly on
Iy that labor here is paid more than
twice as much as there
now build my machinery for the
mill in Woodstock, the United States
l pay my machinists from 81 50 to
$500 day, and it costs me $4,000.
l step over into New Haven, England,
and pay my best machinist 81 a
day, and my machinery costs me
$40, 600. Remember that OF the ma,
chinery 80 per cent at least is labor
Now the Mills are complete, and
here in, n,Noodstock, the United States
l hire my men and my women, my
sOrters, my spinners, my weaver'
: and NV dressers. / pay my womeI
from So to IS q week, my men from
SO TO $50 week. get out a cas-.
of cloth at cost to me of just 800
l go over into New Haven, England
LII
pay my women from 81 80 to 50
week, my men from 81 to 81 pc
week I get out a like case of goods
; and find its cost to be Just $50. Now
if l can take that case OF cloth, cost
ing $50, bring it here and sell it IL
competition with the case which ha
: cost here in Woodstock 500, don
you see l can sell it for $50, $40 les
than the cost of the case here, an,
still make profit of so How lonl
: then will my mill IN Woodstock rul
: agaist such competition as that
, Now the Democratic party says, uu
der its doctrine of Free Trade-th
the right TO buy In the cheapest mar
kets and sell IN the dearest-mak
/ all the goods you please over ther
| in New Haven, England. send then
freely here, and sell them in compe
tition with the goods made in Wood
stock. But. my Democratic friend
5 will not the mill in Woodstock b
; compelled to stop "No" How ca
{ it run There is but one way on th
face Of the earth it can, and that
by cutting down the wages of Ia
: men who work on the excavations, i
+ ffre qu5rries, on the foundations, i
2 the brick yard of the plasterers, tn
, painters, the wood workers. the sll
ters, the mschinists, Rna the men an
women who work in the mills, to tn
: wages paid IN New Haven, England
{ ard then the mill can run. Saws M
z friend who works in the mill : Il car
not work Mr.. Frye, for any sue
wages as those you have named.
Yes you can. for they do in Europe.
2 But I couldn't have meat every da,
n and the comforts and Injuries for IN
r family they now enjoy" "No, yo
. couldn't but you coald have meat a
often as once or twice a week Yo
' could have soup every day, thick col
fee sweeteDed with molasses and
: dITk colOred wheaton bread. Tha
= / free trade diet for working men
!, But, Mr. Frye, / couldn't send N
children to the schools" mo, wit
e your present pride you could nC
d dress them to your satisfaction {
V send them to school and, indee
= Won would need their services in til
mill to help earn the bread they es
&c and such clothing as they wear
L But, Mr.. Frye could not save an
o money could never buy home fc
e my family" No, you could not an
the workers there do not Inspes
tor Wheatly, who devoted ten yeaI
l. to study of the condition of tn
workingmen of England, in answe
to a question, said L do not kno
of one skilled artisan who owns
piece of land OF the house standin
} on it.
J.: Now the Republican party enuI
It ciates a doctrine, declares a polio
is entirely different from that. TT
# Republican Party does not prepos
D, TO say to Great Britain, You sha
r not send your goods over to th
IS United States to compete with our
ir manufactured here" The Republ
y can Party recognizes the benefit {
If healthy competition.
n The Republican Party say TO IL
D. English manufacturer in New Haven
e You pay no taxes for the support {
g our government, nor of our state
nor of our municipalities you
not help to build our school house
nor equip them, nor help pay oil
teachers you do not assist in pawn
ing our public debt, nor the intereI
'e on it, nor pensions to our soldier