The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-23
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
HOW WAGE FARMERS LIVE UNDER
PROTECTION AND FREE-TRADE.
What the Free-Trade New York WorN
Saws of Some of Our Laborers-Enslish
Testimony on the Condition of Their
Laboring Ciasses-A Great Contrast.
PROTECTION.

Testimony on the
Laboring Glasses
PROTECTION. |
From The New York
World-Free-trade
Authority.
FALL RIVER, Mass,
Aug. 3O.-This thrivingI
city of mills is o graphic
Illustration Of what the
city of New York can
do in the way of build
ing homes for its work
ing people.
A Sunday World re-
porter has made q tour
through the city, and |
was astoundcd at what
he saw and learned.
The mill hands hereI
live in good style on lessl
than an average of 81 a
day. /
Their homes are mod
ern houses, with bayl
windows, lawns, gardens
and shade trees.
The average monthly
rent is only 50 for half
of one of these elegant
homes.
Twelve dollars is deem
ed excessive, almost eX-
travagant.
To rent a whole house,
with all modern i'm
provements and ample
grounds, costs SIS to SIS
a month.
E. Higginson, of the
law firm of Dubuque &
Higginson, was the writ
er'S informant and COM
panion on the tour
through the city.
He conducted the re-
porter along a wide ave-
nue., on both sides of
which between the street
and the sidewalk a plot
of green sward had been
left.
at the top of the hill a
view of the city in half
a dozen directions was
commanded. The gene
raj aspect Of the streets
was that of an enormous
country village, built
of handsome houses,
nestled among luxuriant
trees, and each one the
possessor of a lawn and
a garden.
Each street was light
ed by electricity, and
several had street car
lines.
Here you can gain
some idea of our city,
Mr.. Higginson said.
There is room enough
here to give each inhab-
liant ten acres Of land,
and yet we have grown
from $4,000 to 5000 in
the past ten years. ~
A MODEL TENEMENT HOUSE
There is a typicaJ
tenement house, he
continued, pointing out
a moderate sized house
of handsome architect,
ule, with a pretty yer
anda and hay windows
The grounds consisted
of a smooth shaven lawn
shaded by several fins
elms and oaks. There
were q hammock and 8
rustic seat. Flower gar
dens bloOmed on all sides
OF the house.
1t looked like a private
residence. designed fol
the cccupany of a mar
in easy circumstances.
THAT house is occu
pied by Two families OF
mill hands, Mr.. Higgin
son said, "One on the
first floor and the othcl
on the second, with eacl
having one-half Of the
big attic. AS you see
the bay window extend.
to the second story, thu!
making both floor.
equally pleasant
What rent do the fam
lies pay?''
Nine dollars a month.
mine dollars a month";
Yes, Sir. | can SHOW
yOu scores. yes hun
dreds, of such houses a.
that in this city," Mr.
Hiyginson replied calm
ly, ''in some of whicl
the rent will be ever
less than that. You cal
hire a whole house lik'
that for SIS or $40
month"
do many Of the op
eratives own houses il
this city,"
Hundreds Of then
do"
THE IDEAb COTTAGE HON.
The writer passed
large number of nea
little cottages with yard
and gardens. in many o
which corn. potatoes
beans, squashes ant
nearly all kinds of vege
tables were growing, al
ample supply for tn
family table. Such cot
tages as that cost Onl,
5000 to $1,000 to build,
Mr.. Higginson said.
At one point Mr.. Hig
ginson pointed out
block of three stor,
houses, with bay win
dows and small yards il
front, the kind Of hous
that would rent at $50
month in New York jus
as fast as the agent
could offer them to tn
public. They wer.
charmingly situated, fac
ing a beautiful park tina
sloped down to the river
1.-THE man that bull
those bouses," said MI
Higginson, made a mis-
take. He can't ren
them at $40 a month
even though he offere'
to make a present Q
any one of them to an,
person who would liv
in it ten years. You see
our people want yard
about their houses, an,
won't take a house with
out SO long as they ca
get them with a yard. "
Lord Coleridge, the G.
hts farewell speech 4
through this country in
1t is not your colossal
ested me; l can see tt
admire, what | long to
my own dear England
your upper and lower
seen among them me
any capital in the VIC
thousands Of houses DC
them. l am told that
own their farms, your
their houses and you
tages. What q state of
this produces in time O.
IDLE force in time Of wa
MIR. GIL
1 repeat here what /
and frequently put In
reader OF utterances
Free-traders will be fur
of the strongest proofs
accrued, that now ext
accrue to the agricultul
of the United States fire
tive tariff system,
COL. IN
We haVs taken the ia
we have taken the men
England: we have take
robbed and tranlpled III
into this country, and t
superior to the uobili
which their fathers EN-
the Irishmen, robbed; '
ers from th4alInshouse
rags into robes; we hav
and huts into palaces: c
have made patriotic, sp
The great industl
provenent as the
proaches a settleme
in the Boston ma
5000, eco pounds, q
were more satisfact