The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-08

a Short Talk to Now York workIngmcn BY
an Independent Newspaper. /.
NeV 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 in Germany, France, Belgium
and Switzerland are not one-third Of
what they are here. Those of Italy arc
not ORe-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 manuiac.
tured goods to the value Of 500, 3l0, 76S,
This was great wrong to American la.
Dor. In that immense amount OF i'm.
ports, permitted by our insufficient and
defective tariff, the labor of women
employed in the Manchester England
cotton mills, whose wages do not aver.
age $50 Il year, came into competition
with the higher priced labor OF our
Southern and Northern cotton spinners.
In that mass OF imports was the labor OF
German factory workmen averaging less
than Sll5 year, and that OF women
averaging less than $50 year.
Munich is II gallery and center of art.
German women with us many rs six
children saw wood in its streets for 10
cents day. May a merciful God sink
the United States 10000 feet under the
sea before that heinous spectacle shall
become an incident OF our civiliZationl
Nearly S700,0O0,0 900 worth OF the STAR
walton labor OF Europe in the form OF
manufactured goods imported into this
country last year, That which came
from Belgium in bales and boxes repre-
sented the wages OF 90 cents q day for
women and 43 cents for men; and the
highest priced labor in loose cargoes OF
Belgian steel and iron represented wages
less than so cents u day. Compared with
these, the wages OF Carnegie's men at
Bradd0ck are Che incomes OF princes.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year
in competition with American labor at
prices that should tillsensitive souls with
horror and alarm the thoughtful for the
future OF the human race. The pay in
the cotton factories Of Naples is twenty
cents day; of the Neopolitan marble
and granite cutters, from forty TO fifty
cents day, according to skill OF coach
men, thirty cents; OF women in lace fac
tories, ten cents, and girls, seven cents;
OF soldiers in the army, two dollars n
month. OF the woIkmen in glass
works OF Italy only the skilled blowers
receive as high as n dollar n day, and
laborers on farms, hoeing or making hay,
from fifteen to eighteen cents q day,
working from sun to sun. God save
America from such wages!
In the Swiss silk goods which came
into our half protected country last year
in those S7O0,O00,0OO Of imports was the
skilled labor OF men at Il cents q day
and OF women at 20 cents, both COM
peting with the silk weavers OF Paterson,
New York, Philadelphia and Cheney.
Glasgow, in Scotland, is the steamship
factory OF the world, and its blast fur
mace owners and iron rollers howl for
free trade day and night. OF the tami-
lies in that manufacturing Sodom Al, 900
out OF 100000 live in one room, and hall
OF the men and women in the city are
chronically out OF work. That oneroom
for family OF father, mother, daughter
and sons tells what wages are in Scot,
land, and how they drag humanity down
into bestiality and misery.
Brothersl the Mills bill to reduce the
tariff is the first step to that ono room
for an American family. Fight it with,
out delay and fight it to its death; and
then make your tariff so protective as To
shut out cheap foreign labor in the form
OF manufactured goods.