Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-09-28
n en-. and there is not an army in all Eu-


a month. Well what do yOa suppose
they get I'm Germany Two dollars and
half. and lieutenant gels the enormous
sum Of $3.50 a ear. That Is an indication
of wages In Europe. Why, you may go
! in Ven &c Into one Of those sho 5, where
! they make that beautiful .ewelry no, go
| into that shop W. ere | went, where they
make this magnificent enc ian 81 s.;
tade the payroll, and you may start with
the overseer. How 1t away down, and
! there Is not a sn1le man exc 1T tie blow
er who gets over one do lar day; ana
you may hunt "a | urope through to-day
IN their ay rolls. and IL Is only once per-
haps In 100 namei that you can nj
man who is getting one dollar day.
Every inch o tally is farmed, as you
may we'll suppose, 10 support 20, 1000
people. on may Ike every man. wom-
an, and child there is in the United States
to-day 90, 600, 600 add 5000, 900 to
them, and drop them right down in the
single state of eXas and 1t woul lie as
IN ckly populated as Italy Is to- 'ay. 30
they farm every inch II land, away to The
tops of the mountains, where there Is
bit IF soil. The women do It, l have
seen twenty women in one heid. lhey
employ from six TO Gig persons on an
acre of land where we do not employ
more than one. What are their wages
Fifteen TO eighteen cents day, working
the live'ong day in the hot sun. If with
"A hoe, ii is one Of those Old fashioned
stub hoes that would weigh from three
10 four pounds with a handle nearly as
large as that bottle. WAS through there
in laying time. and the women did the
hal ing; they. did it wit scythe like
our own bughwhacker "a we call it, only
about hree inche' wider than that. Sup
pose in a short time they get our agri.
cultural implem hts in italy; that VIII
free from that sort Of labor four out OF
five who are at work At it, and they can
60 into the cotton mills and the silk mills
10 work against your people ut fifteen to
twenty cents day.
SWITZERLAND.
Go up 10 Switzerland. ! was at Inter
achen. and | S opped at an elegant hotel.
There was a very elegan garden, with
grounds sp end.dy Laid out, splendi ly
taken care of. | saw young man there
who was a. work from early in q o morn
ing till late at night, AID found that he
was the landscape gardener. said
Mr.. Landlord | want to know what you
pay that man. He is goot man. is he
not? ~ e., = SAT he, 'he is splendid. y
said /: what do you ray him" - pay
him eighty liars year, and he boards
himself, ! giving him few vegetables. y
"Well, said !, Nv at do you pay those
fellows that lelp him well, y said
he. 'that fellow who is working there
pay thirty-five cents a y, and / can hire
as many as | want for thirty cents day. +"
His immense herd of cattle had that morn
ing started for the mountains, where they
would stay yelong summer through,
and ipfn the fall "a lopO "a The
grass was green on the mountain side,
gong gradually up the mountain as they
ate the grass below. llerdsmen were put
in charge OF the cattle, lived in Title huts
on the mountain ide, stayed there, and
u ade butter and cheese he whole season
thro ch. said |: what do YOU pay
your lerdsmen Sad he II orty cents
a day is heavy price to pay herdsmen.
but | think a 20 deal of my cows Go
into wiss silk factory, and you will
find there. CON! citing with your silk
manufacturers of the nited States
women wo king for an average of twenty
GEMS a day, and you viii find men work
ing FIR ogty-onc cents day skilled
labo ers, too, in that manufacture.
BELGIt VI.
step up to Belgium. Belgium is per.
feet ee-hiye. I is about one third the
81 of h : ate OF Ma lie in territory, and
has 60 600 of people more peo le &
the uare mile than any other country
in Europe, And they seem TO owe 10
work. Why, The manufacturing of Bel
liam Is perfectly amazing. Did you
know she WAS frightening ! ngland to.
day Did you know that she compel ed
Mr.. Adamson, only about twelve days ago.
the pr dent of the British | on and
lDc inf in mi
ma e in Manchester, in tn ! RE Trade
coun ry, to say that unless England pro-
tected her steel AM ron manufacturers
against the competition # Belgium by
law Eng and would be driven To the wall
in the business / i'll you know that she
sold steel and iron wares r ght under the
nose OF the British lion WI hin the la I
year, until Parliament spent almost a
whole half day. forgot the Irish question
and talked about Belg an iron
Well. how abo wages in elgium?
went into lace actory IN Brussels and
saw women at work there precisely az
they worked in en!ce ! was able TO
get in ormation there and ] found that
the women there skilled workers earn
ed twenty cent a day. The wages in
Belgium are bet er than the wages in
Italy or >witzerland, and about equal 10
Germany and France l think a little be L
ter than the wages In Germany to-day.
I'm the cotton factory in Belgium they
pay their women from twenty to twenty
five cents day, and their men from forty
to x,y cents day. You nay 10 into
any great steel and iron mandatory,
and you can not find on the payroll of
the whole concern a single laboring man
whose daily a. amounts to ghty cents
day not one: and they rnn down 10
forty cents. The women do all the farm
ing in Belgi I'm, an they do 1t for from
sixteen to eighteen and twenty cent, a
day.
GERMANY.
Go up to Germany. l went fir { into
Munich. On the first voyage of dis
cOvery | made l saw a out score OF
women, with All awkward-looking saw.
and a singular-looking block for the wood
10 rest on, saving wood In the streets of
Munich and carrying il on the r acks in
to the stores. had stem women doing