Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-16

There is only one country in Europe in
which the wages of labor are within a half
of what they are in this country. This is
Great Britain.
Wages in Germany, France, Belgium and
Switzerland are net one. third Of what they
are here. Those Of Italy are not one. quarter
One duty Of the government is 10 protect
the labor Of its citizens. Last year cheap
foreign labor was imported into the United
States in the shape Of manufactured goods
to the value of 5000, 3Io,76S. This was a
great wrong to American labor. In that i'm
mense amount of imports, permitted by our
insufficient and defective tariff, the labor OF
women employed in the Manchester, Eng.
land, cotton mills, whose wages do not aver.
age 500 year, came into competition with
the higher priced labor Of our Southern and
Northern cotton spinners. In that mass oil
imYerts was the labor Of German factory
workmen averaging less than Sis agar,
and that Of woman averaging less thaa $50
ayear.
Munich is gallery and center Of art.
German women with as many as six children
saw wood in its streets at IS cents day.
May merciful God sink the United States
10000 feet under the sea before that hide0us
spectacle shall become an incident OF our
civilization.
Nearly seven hundred million dollars
worth Of the starvation labor of Europe in
the form Of manufactured gools was import.
ed into this country last year! That which
came from Belgium in bales and boxes rep
resented the wages Of women at ~ cents a
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 30 cents day. Compared with these,
the wages of Carnegie's men at Braddock
are the incomes of princes.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise was
imported into this country last year in com
petition with American labor at prices which
should fill sensitive souls with horror, and
alarm the thoughtful ter the future of the
human race. The pay in ten cotton factories
of Naples is 20 cents day; of the Neapsli.
tan marble and granite cutters from 20 10 50
cents day, according to skill; of coachmen
80 cents; Of women in lace faciones, 10
cents and girls 7 cents; Of soldiers in the
army 81 month. OF all the workmen in
the glass-werks Of Italy, emily the skilled
blowers receive as high as dollar a day,
and laborers on farms, h0eIng or making hay,
from IS to IS cents day. working from sun
to sun. God save America from such wages!
In the Swiss silk goods which came into
our halfpretected country last year in those
seven hundred millions Of imports was the
skilled labor of men at al cents a day and
Of women at 20 cents, both competing with
the silk weavers Of Patterson, New York,
Philadelphia and Cheney. Glasgow, in
Scotland is the steamship of the world, and
Its blast furnace owners and iron rollers howl
for free. trade day and night. OF the tami,
lies in that manufacturing Sodom, 4I,ooo
out OF Ioo, 900 live in one room, and half OF
the men and women in the city are chroni !
cally out Of work. That one room for
family Of father, mother, daughter and sons
tells what wages are in Scotland, and how
they drag humaity down into bestiality and
misery.
Brothers, the Mills bill to reduce the tariff
is the first step 10 that one room for an Amer
can family! Fight it without delay, and
fight it to its death; and then make your
tariff Sc protective as ts shut out cheap fer
fegn laborin the form of manufactured goods
~. Y. San DEM.