Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-11

RICH.
The idlers. those with fixed incomes:
but longer hours, lower wages, harder work
to the workers. The workers are twenty
to one to the idlers, and therefore, free
trade sacrifices the interests of the nineteen
to the interests of the one.
One conclusion Sir Edward Sullivan
draws is SO well proven by the highest
statistical authorities to admit of no doubt:
After forty years of experience of one
sided free trade, the condition Of labor in
the United Kingdom Is very alarming;
many industries have died out or removed
to other countries; in nearly every in
dustrv English labor Is underSoId by for
eign labor: in most industries four days
is now considered week work" That
is the condition brought by free trade in
England.
Our female student may have seen
that picture of Washington at Trenton, \.
j.. passing under a floral arch bearing the
motto: THE defender Of the mothers
will be the protector of the daughters. "
That system which defends the home pro-
tects both mothers and daughters. A
more modern motto is: What is Home
Without a M0ther?' But what home can
that be? what home influence can there be
where the mother has to leave ber. newly
born babe at creche ear Y in the morning,
to remain there all day while she labors
hard wheeling coal at the mouth of the
pit, or wheeling Stag from the blast fur
mace, clad In the cast off clothes of her
husband brother or son? or treats the
heavy Oliver twelve hours a day making
spikes, earning from l.50 to $3.50 week.
The object, aim and purport af our gov
eminent was never more clearly or concise
ly stated than by Major Mckinley, of
Ohio, in his mastery attack oh the Mill
bill, May Is, 1888. He said: This gov
eminent is made for Americans, native
born and naturalized, and every pound.
every bushel, every ton, every yard of
| foreign product that comes into this coun-
try TO compete with ours deprives Amer
can labor of what justly belongs to it.
We cannot compete with foreign
nations without the restraint of tariff
unless we have equal conditions and equal
labor cost. To do this we must introduce
European conditions and European
methods into the United States ETC.,
| etc.
The mass of our American working peo-
pie know these facts. Those of foreign
birth know their truth from actual expert
and this question will be again as it has
100000 republican friends, with
rem about them, with the calm thoughts
country, with the history of the party and
hopes of the future and the knowledge of
the great men who have adorned and
blessed our nation in days gone by, there
God prepares the verdict that shall deter
mine the wisdom, ETC., etc. 1t is by the
voices and votes from our American homes
| filled with ou1 working classes - fathers,
mothers and children-that the American
protective tariff has always been sustained
| whenever the question has been fairly sub
mitted Wendell Phillips said: The
accumulated intellect of the masses is
greater than the heaviest brain that God
ever gave to a single man." Mr.. Blaine
| said of the tariff issue: 1T stands forth
as that issue that presents bread to the
hungry. clothing to the naked and general
prosperity to all the people" The
thoughtful intellect of the masses is rarely
at fault. It nearly always serves them
Alright.
Regarding Women Abroad.
A society of lady students and gradu-
| ates, under the title of Women's Univer-
sity association, has been established at
| Southwark for two years.
! The work of the association Is multifari-
Gus including evening classes for lnstruc-
| ton and recreation, the organization of
holiday trips for children, the superin-
tendent of the London Pupil Teachers as
ISOLATION, assistance in the management
Of board schools, and general cooperation
with all existing charitable institutions
Active help, for instance, is given to the
local branch of the metropolitan Asso-
citation for Refriending Young Servants, >
and clearinghouse has been opened in
which girls are accommodated while out of
place and training in household work is
given to those who wish to qualify for do
nestle service.
A custom will not permit a well-born
German girl to work for her living, and as
the number of noble families with little
property is large, a young lady who found
herself destitute would have to face an
embarrassing problem in Germany were il
not for the institutions peculiar to the
land and known as stifts, which are in
tended for the maintenance of destitute
ladies of high birth. Many of these have
been founded and endowed in Silesia and
Saxony. At the head of each is the stifts-
hofmelsterin, who is appointed by the
crown. and whose office gives her high
rank of precedence at court.
The women teachers of Germany, besides
great pension association, have had an
insurance society of their own for the last
six years. For monthly fee of Is cents
you can, in case of sickness, draw 81. 80 a
week for thirteen weeks and for the
same period again after an interval of six
weeks. Over 50 600 has been paid out.
Women between Is and As years ola who
have doctors certificate of good health
are admitted. The society has a good sur
plus and is thinking of reducing the fee,
except when an unusual amount of sickness
occurs.
The charm of the women of France nev
er leaves them. As they grow older the
marvellous tact. suavity, and polish which
seem to be theirs by right of inheritance
grow more and more attractive. Beer is
the insidious enemy of the matrons of Ger.
many, and they have an almost universal
indifference to dress, while the English
women go in SO tenaciously for athletics
that they are apt to grow coarse and heavy
| III time. The English vomen of 40, now
.. ever, is practically without rival OF hel
own age in beauty and health the civilized
world over.
Blondes are said to be disappearing both
in England and In America. Persons who
can look back half century unite in de
cfaring that there is marked change in
this respect. For every red-haired person
: seen now ten could have been met with
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