Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-06
The English Laborer Pays as Much
for His Clothing as the
American.
Roast of the Golden Club that Ii
Will Destroy American In
dustrles.
Inference in Wages Between Eugla nd
and America-0ther Vital
Points Considered.

There are several free trader dem
ocrats in ttis neig l5orhood, VOTES a
Wisconsin map, That ave all TIE while
so,ing it cots MOI e 10 clothe the working
non in this country thau it does in Eng
land and ibat 1t is pro ection that does
4 and that it is lree f. ade in England
tbat makes everything so cheap for the
iaborors there. They ella; n that If we he'd
free lrJde here eve' gthing would be cheap
or We want an exclamation in regard 80
This so chat we eau understandit. anu
show it 10 the rec traders
II is 10 be trusted that tbe ENQUIRER VIII
30 better satisfied with zee trade au bol,;V
Than he would be If protectionist was
onoted. Consul Schoeuhof, free trader,
writing rom Tunsiall Great Britain
saws ia bis report: $50 fa~ as clothing
and dry goods in general are concerned.
find co. on goods July as cheap in ,ho
United Sts'es as here SJiri'ng and
sbeeting if ANYTHING are superior in
quality for The same price. Articles OF
nnderwale for women are superior in
workmanship and cheaper IN price in the
United States. Nor are mems shirts,
when chiefly Of cotton, any cheaper here.
OF boots aud shoes fac Oh V made the same
NAV Je said. Articles made to order q
cheaper in ENGLAND owing 10 the lower
prices of hard LABOR, but the difference in
prices of ready made things is not so mark
ed. In worL manship and finish FIND the
corresponding articles of wholesale manJ-
facture superior in the United Siaies.
This is true of clothing as well as Of col
lars, cuffs, aud like articles
Again, Consul Schoenhof, W iting from
Ireland, in Consular Reports, No. 50, No
vember, 1887 (see page 500, saws:
1T is useless fer me TO dwell much on
Che linen industry of Ulster 1t is well
Known in Ulster they ale foremost in this
branch in the Whole world. i'll find
that
THE EARNINGS OF TUE PEOPLE
employed III tue linen mills in Ulster are
far below those Of any class employed in
The textile branches in nglaod. NIL
regula ions and working time of course
are the saule for The whole Kingdom.
Fla -breaEe $, men who have 10 do very
eyhaus1irg wo-l earn from Is shil'irgs
l$3.6O) 10 90 stilIines $3.50 per weeI /;
hac ers from IS s., ,l'irgs 10 2 sb'liugs;
spuues and lis i ON s sh;lliuos to 10
sbjlIiugs; b. If-Iimers, bows, 5 soilliugs,
and glr's 4 ,bill;ugs; and weavers, mostly
women tending looms. from 12s sbillings
TO Is billings. BY others | was told that
the 60 nings We're oply, for weavers. s
shillmgs 10 10 shi'l;Dgs. AID up TO Is
sbii|ings onlv for the fine" goods
the wooden mills in Ireland be re-
ports; The wages | have not ID down
are: For men, from ~ shillings to IA
shIlmgs. IA shillings being about the
limit of The best men. Spinner girls 8
Shiings to 10 shillings; children 5 shil-
lingS to shillinos and weavers earn fom
10 shiiucs TO II shilings. The mill EN-
poyiug about 750 hands pays cut about
ftC1 per week in wages This includes
Overseers, ETC., which is rifle over 10
shllings (S2.40) per head. y
Mr. SchoenbOf SAYS that he found man
who was hand loom weaver and tne
weaver said that I'm his younger years he
was bricklayer in England; now he has
returned to Ireland, and is well satisfied if
he can ply his old trade and earn enough
to keep him III bodily repair. Work, how
ever, only lasts for him from summer ln-
til after Christmas, and very little work
can be found for the first six months of the
year, which is Che case with all hand-loom
and he gave me a piece of bread made of
yellow meal which have been shown by
nearly all poor peonle and small farmers
where have visited.
The old hand-loom weaver said: AS
to tea, coffee, or beer, and meat we know
nothing at all of that Cold water is what
We drink and yellow meal we eat If
have two ounces of tobacco ! am very
bappy." He pays no rent, as his neigh
tOrS, also very poor people, give him the
little shed which he occupies free of
charge"
A few years ago the question of common
clothing being cheaper in England than
in the United States came up, and in Mac
miu's Magazine for February, 1892
under 1.-THE industries of the United
States in relation to the tariff. " mem
bars of parliament, Dr. Lyon Playfair. at
tempted to show how the poor man in the
United States was robbed, ETC., under our
protective tariff He said:
"A workingman having an ulster coat
Tor the winter at Boston must pay doHble
the price than an English working man
d'e>; that is, in Boston it cost fS and in
England less than A. A workingman'
wooIen trousers in Boston cost 7 shillings;
Ike pair in Manchester can be got for
On rcoding this statement the Hon
Titus Sheard. Of Little Falls. n Y, him
eft an Eusl'shuen. proprietor of the
Eagle mills a Little Falls. had worked
whau a boy in English wooden mills for
81 50 week. while he had many boys
IN his employ in the E'g'a mills to whom
1e paid that amount daily, wrote to the
Boston Commercial Bulletin and pricked
the free trade bubble about clothing,
ETC.:
UNWORTHY A GENTLEMAN.
Now. sir, is not this statement I'M
worthy of such right honorable gentle
man; l. is not like a majority of the
statements make by the free traders. I'M
rue; and an outrage upon the intelligent
reader,
We do not know at what price YOU can
g't a pair Of wooden trowsers in Boston,
Ul' You can get them for ''seven shil-
ghgs you can get them in Boston as
.1e3p as in Manchester, quality consid-
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