Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-14
TO THE PoINr-

THERE is only one country in Europe in which the wages of labor are within 6 half of what they are in this country. That is Crest Britain.
 Wages in Germany. France, Bsleium
 and Switzerland are not one third of what they are here. Those of Italy are not one-quarter.
 One duty of government is to protect the labor of its citizens. Last year cheap foreign labor was imported into the United States in the shape of msnu. fsctured goods to the value of s692,- BIO, ,76s.
 This was 6 great wrong to American labor, In that immense amount of i'm ports, permitted by our insufficient and defective tariff, the labor Of women em- ployed in the Manchester, England, cot ton mills, whose wages to not average $6O a year, came into competition with the hishr.priced labor of OUT Southern and Northern cotton spInners. In that mass of imports was the labor of Ger man factory vorkmen averaging less than sll5 year. and that of women sy- ersgins less than $50 6 year.
 Munich is & gallery and center of art German women with ks many as six children saw wood in it's streets for if teen cents 0 day. May Q merciful God sink the United States ten thousand feet under the sea before the hideous spectacle shall become an incident of our civilization.
 Nearly seven hundred million dollars
 worth of the starvation labor of Europe Tn the form of manufactured goods i'm ported into this country last year! That which came from Belgium in bales and boxes represented tbe wages of 22 cents day for women and 43 cents for men; and the highest priced labor in loose osrgos of Belgium steel and iron repre- sented wages lees than so cents day. Compared with these the wages of Oar negies men at Brsddock are the in- comes of princes,
 Italian labor in Italian merchandise was imported into thIs country last year, in competition with American labor, st prices that should fill sensitive souls with horror and alarm the thoughtful for the future of the human race. The psy in the cotton factories of Naples is 20 cents day; of the Nespelitsn marble and granite cutters, from 40 to 50 cents a dsy, according to skill; of coachmsn, 30 cents; of women in lace factories, 10 | cents. and girls : cents; of soldiers in the army, s2 @ month. Of all the work men in the glass works of Italy, only | the skilled blowers receive as high ss q | B day, and lsborers on farms, hoeipg or making hay, from Is Co IS cents day. from san to sun. God save America from such wages!
 In the Swiss silk goods which came nto our hslf-protecied country lsst year n those S700, ,0O0, 900 of imports vas the 'killed labor of men st 4l cents . day md of women at 20 cents. both compet- ng with the silk uesvers of Paterson, New York, Philadelphia and Cheney. Glasgow, in Scotland, is the steamship sctory of the world, and its blast fur lsce owners and iron rollers howl for free rsde day and night Of the families D that manufacturing Sodom, 1000 ut of 100000 live in one room, and half f the men and women in the oity are ironically out of work. That one room or 6 family of father, mother, daughters nd sons tells what wages are in Scot and, and how they drag humanity down nto besstislity and misery.
 Brothers, she Mills bill to reduce the sriff is the first step to that one room { pr Rn American family. Fight it with ( ut delay, and fight It to its death; and ( hen make your tariff so protective as to ( hut out cheap foreign labor in the form | f manufactured goods.-Nev York Sun, ,