Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-08
WAGES OF WORKERS.

/ New York sun.
/ There is only one country in Europe
| in which the wages of labor are within
! a half OF what they are In this country.
| That is Great Britain
Wages III Germany, France, Belgium
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 manu-
featured goods to the value of $692, 3d.
76S. This was great wrong 10 Amer
can labor. In that immense amount Of
imports, permitted by our insufficient
and defective tariff, the labor
of women employed in the
Manchester, England. cotton mills,
whose wages do not average $50 year.
came into competition with the higher
priced labor Of our southern and north
ern cotton spinners. In that mass of
imports was the labor of German factory
workmen averaging less than $Il5a year,
and that OF women averaging less than
$50 a year.
Munich is a gallery and center Of art.
German women with as many as six
children saw wood in the streets for 15c
q day. May merciful God sink the
United States 10000 feet under the sea
before the hideous spectacle shall become
all incident Of our civilization
Nearly 800, coo, 900 worth of the starv-
alton labor of Europe in the form Of man
ufactured goods imported into this coun-
try last year. That which came from
Belgium in bales and boxes represented
the wages Of 32c day for
women and 43c for men; and the
highest priced labor in loose cargoes Of
Belgian steel and IRON represented wages
less than 80 cents day. Compared
with these the wages OF Carnegies men
at Braddock are the incomes Of princes
Italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year,
in uapetition with American labor. at
prices that should FIJI sensitive souls
with horror and alarm the thoughtful
for the future of the human rare. The
paw in the cotton factories Of Naples Is
20 cents a day; of the Neapolitan marble
and granite cutters from 80 ~ 80 cents Z
dav. according to skill; Of coachuen. 30
cents: Of women IN lace factories. 10
cents, and girls, cents; Of soldiers ia
tie army. 81 month. OF al the work
men in the glasswoEks Of Italy, only the
skilled blowers receive as high as s a
dav, and Iaborers on farms, hoeing or
making hav. from IS to - cents day.
working from sun 70 sun. God save
Allerica from such wages
In the Swiss silk goods which cark
into our half protected country last yeS
in those s., 90, 0oJ Of imports, was the
skilled labor Of men at 4lc a day and Of
women al 2oc. both competing with the
silk yvearers of Patterson, Ses~ York.
Philadelphia and Cheney, Glasgow, in
scotland. is the steamship factory IN the
world. and iis bias. furnace owderz and
iron rollers howl for free trade day aud
night. OF the families IN that usanu-
featuring Sodom, Il 800 out Of 100. CO
hive IN one room, and bali Of the
men and women IN the city are
chrozlcally our q work. That
one roam Tor q family Of father. mother,
daughters and sons tell what wages are
Scotland, and how they drag humanity
down into bcastiality and MISERY.
Brothers, the Mills ban 90 reduce the
tariff Is the first step 90 that os7s room
for an American family. Fighs Il with
out delay. ard fight 1t 10 is death; and
then make yo,zr tariff - protective as 70
shut out cheap foreign lsiso. IA the form
% manufactured goods.