Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-04-05
4 SHORT TALK TO WORKlNGMEN.

a OuVRA AAAA 10 VVNAANUW1Ns
New York SUM-
There is only one country in Eu.
rope in which the wages of labor are
within half of what they are IN this
country. That is Great Britain.
Wages in Germany, France. Belgium
and Switzerland are not one-third
what they are here. Those Of Italy
are not one quarter. Last year cheap
foreign labor was imported into the
United States in the shape Of manu-
featured goods to the value of $685.
3l9,768. This was a great wrong to
American labor. In the 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, come into competition with the
higher priced labor Of our Southern
and Northern cotton.spinners.
Munich is q gallery and center Of
art. German women with AS many
as six children saw wood in its streets
for Is cents y day. May merciful
God sink the United States ten thou.
sand feet under the SEA before the
hideous spectacle shall become an in.
cident Of our civilization!
Nearly seven hundred million dol
lars worth OF the starvation labor OF
Europe in the form of manufactured
goods imported into this country last
year! That which came from Belgi.
um in bales and boxes represented
tho wages of % cents a day for wo.
men and 43 cents for men; and the
highest priced labor in loose cargoes
Of Belgian steel aud iron represented
wages less than so cents = day.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last
year, in competition with American
, labor, It prices that should fill sensi
+ tive souls with horror, aud alarm the
thoughtful 'or the future OF the hu
man race. The pay in the cotton fac
tories Of Naples is so cents a day; o.
: the Neapolitan marble and granite
, cutters. from 40 to so cents . day, &C
, cording to skill; of coschmen, 81
cents; Of women in lace factories. II
cents, and girls, cents; Of soldier
in the army, ~ = month. OF al thu
workmen in tho glass works Of Italy
only the skilled blowers receive a
high a. dollar day, aud laborer'
on farms, hoeing or making hay, from
Is to Is cents a day, working from
sun to sun. God save America from
{ such wages!
In the Swiss silk goods which car (
. into our country last year i" thos'
, seven hundred millions of imports
WAS the skilled labor Of men 1t A.
:; cents = day, and Of women at II
, cents, both competing with the sill
weavers of Patterson, New York
Philadelphia and Cheney.
Glasgow, IN Scotland. Is the iarges
steamship factory in the world, ane
its blast furnace owners and iron
: rollers howl for free trade day ane
night or the families in that mann
featuring Sodom 4I.0OO out of 1O0, 00(
live in one room, and half Of the mel
and women in the city are out O
ork. That one room for family O.
father, mother, daughters and SOM
tells what wages are in Scotland, ane
how they drag humanity down inte
bestialitv and misery.
Brothers! the Mills bill to reduce
the tariff is the first step to that ont
: room for an American family. Fieh
it without delay, and fight it to it
death; and then make your tariff ST
protective as to shut out cheap fore;g'
labor in the form Of msn ufacturt.
} goods.