The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19

terry Is 1Ounu Ill every Slale Oh tne
United States except Florida? Why
did we import SIP, 100000 worth of
the manufactures of hemp, flax and
jute, when you can raise hemp and
flax in your own country ad libitum ?
With all the advantages | alluded to
in the outset, why is it that we do not
manufacture for our own market!
Why, there is but one reason, Mr..
President, in the race we are handi-
capped-handicapped by cheap labor
in Europe-and no other reason can
be given.
And is labor such a factor in the
production of manufactures rs to
overbalance and overcome all these
advantages we possess? Aye, Mr..
President, it is; bacause labor makes
up one half the cost of all manufac-
tured articles. / do not mean to say
!
that labor is one half the cost of
cheap piece of cotton cloth, but |
mean that the average is one half la
Dor in all manufactured products.
/ was over to Waltham one day-a
marvellous workshop-and | spent a
day there. | was in the office of the
Superintendent He showed me some
watch screws; he said they were
screws, they were so infnitesimal that
with the eye | could not tell they
were. My curiosity was aroused. l
asked him if he could figure out for
me what those screws cost. He said
he could. He did. What do you
suppose they cost ton by whole
sale? -Four million, six hundred and
sixty-six thousand dollars. And the
hair springs he showed me So, l20, 200.
How much is silver worth ton
Thirtv-two thousand five hundred
dollars. How much is gold worth a
ton? Six hundred thousand dollars
and little over. Now, when those
screws were lying in the bosom of the
earth, what were they worth? Two
dollars a ton. And labor alone has
made them worth S4,666, 900. Now
the difference between 81 and So a
day on those screws would count,
would it not? John Roach, one OF
the best men that ever lived in Amer
ica,-killed because, though imported
from Ireland, he loved America, and
was for American ships and American
workmen always-John Roach said
that 80 per cent of an iron ship was
work going to the forest and mining
the coal and iron. SO 80 per cent OF
your machinery is work so 80 pei
cent of your factory and of your fur
mace and of your forge is work.
Go up to Switzerland. | was al
lnterlachen, and | stopped at an ele-
giant hotel. l remember Jungfrau
was right In front of me. | remem.
Der, too, there was very elegant
garden and grounds splendidly laid
out, splendidly taken care of. l saw
young man there who was at work
from early in the morning till late al
night, and i found that he was the
landscape gardener. | said: "Mr
Landlord, want to know what vol
pay that man. He is good man, is
he mott" eyes," said he, che is
splendid" Said /: "What do vol
pay him?" 81 pay him eighty dol
} lars year and he boards himself,
giving him few vegetables "Well,
said |, ''what do you pay those fel
lows that help him." "Well," sale
he, "that fellow who is working there
l pay thirty-tive cents day, and
5 can hire just as many as / want fol-
thirty cents day." His immense
herd OF cattle had that morning start
ed for the mountains, where the,
would stay the livelong summer
through, and away into the fall, Sc
long as the grass was green on tn,
mountain side, going gradually up tn,
mountain as they ate the grass below
Herdsmen were put in charge of tn,
: cattle, lived in little huts on tn,
!. mountain side, stayed there, ant
made butter and cheese the Who'll,
season through. Said /: "Wha
; do you pay your herdsmen ?" Said he
Forty cents day is heavy pric,
to pay herdsmen,' but | think gooo
deal of my cows" Go into Swis.
silk factory, and you will find there
competing with your silk manufac
turers of the United States, womer
: working for an average of twenty
cents day, and you will find mer
working for forty-one cents day.
skilled laborers, too, in that manufac-
ture.
WESTON.