Daily Republican., 1890-06-06
work and Wages Abroad.

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From Correspondent OF The Press.
LONDON, Nay 26.-Twenty three yssrs
ago ! found England = great cultivated
garden. Now Il % pasture. You can
ride miles now and not see An acre OF
pl0wed ground. Then wheat was worth
". 80 bushel. hay $40 ton, beef steak
20 cents pound and bacon 20 cents.
Now you can buy American wheat for 81
. bushei, hay for e17 q ton. American
beef steak for 10 cents and American
which can to sent from America has been
reduced about 90 per cent This is why
the poor English farmer, who 10 farming
on land worth $500 an acre, 10 growing
poorer and poorer every year. This is
why the old wheat flelds have grown up
to grass. and why sheep and cattle are
grsxiug where great crops used to be
raised. This 10 why English farmers are
feeling to Canada and the States or almost
starving Of home.
When asked produce dealer where
prices would 20 to In England when
America consumed her own produce, he
said:
"There will be y famine here. Flour
will 20 to $50 barrel. butter will I'D.
vance TO 10 cents . pound, and beef
steak 70 SO cents. with their present
starye."
American
''Oi course We are. We could not live
without her, but America lately seeIns
to be getting on without u.s."
"How?" asked.
"Why, your msnufaturers are knock
ing the lie out OF ours. We are taking
your provisions, but you arc not taking
our manufactured articles - you used
to-"
."How do you account for this?"
''lt Is because you are making things
70 cheap in America that we can't pay
tile tariff and compete with you. You
are making carpets. shoes, cotton cloth.
cotton shirts and stockings and cheap
woolen cloth almost % choAp as We are :"
"What are you going W do about ~"
l asked.
1--WE Can do nothing but gradually
reduce our mAnufaclorlos here, move
them to America, or buy your man ufac-
tories. This buying American man uiac-
tories is hurting US 10 England now.
We have sent 10 America nearly G10O,-
100000 ($4S0, ,000, ,000) to buy your
manufactories. This Is making hard times
here, and will make good times for you.
Free trade with America or very low
tariff, would make better times In Eng
land but we despair ever getting IT."
LAND DECLINING IN ENGLAND-wAaEs,
Twenty years ago you could hardly
buy farm In England at any price, and
never under $500 an acre. Now, see
many farms for sale at s120 An acre. But
ta In nd u
one can farm proftably here ON 5000
land and compete with go land In
America, with tfeights 20 cents per 100
pounds from New York city. II the
American farmer could once come 70
Europe and realize how much better he
10 of than the English or German farmer
he would lit up his head and rejoice at
his prosperity. He would complain no
mere.
Yes. there is a great land des rsssion in
England.
many business men in warw lckshire, )"
said Mr.. Perkins, butcher here, ..are
going into bankruptcy. See the to LETT
and for sale ON our houses. N business
Is paying. am running my own busi-
ness now at loss, hoping for good Times
/ get this list Of wages from the labor
ers themselves, and not from books or
newspapers. The housemeii at LemIng-
ton told me her wages were 81. 26 week.
"And do all the girls In Lexington
work as cheap - thisp l asked.
ssYes, and many cheaper" she said.
At Chester went among the railroad
employees Of the Great Western rail-
road. In answer to my question an Eng
lish conductor. or train man, said:
81 get thirty dollara month, the enei-
nser gets from forty to sixty dollars .
month, and the fireman gets twenty eight
dollars . month. We all board our.
Selves" These wages are doubled in
America.
When asked farm laborer at War.
wick about his wages he said:
..I do get fourteen shillings a week,
and butchers meat Q Saturday. which
meant that he got three dollars and a
half week and boarded himself, but
on Saturday had fresh meat given him.
Other wages in Warwickshire arc AZ
follows: The house painter gets 81. 30 q
week, the harness maker ~, the black
smith &6 SO, tho general farm hand el4
per month, aud general laborer 8 cents
an hour and board themselves. The
printer who gets about 40 cents per
thousand In America gets IA cents here.
STEALING THE IRlsuMAN,s CHURCH.
l overheard curious dialogue In
Besuchamp Cha pei, St. Mar,s .Cathe-
dral, in Warwick. Among the visitors
was an intelligent Irishman. Alter look
ing at the bronze efiigy of the Earl of
Leicester, he turned to the altar and de-
voutly made the eign OF the cross.
..Look hereW aad an Englishman
who stood behind him, twhat are you
doing2 This Is not Catholic Church."
ut is = Catholic Church." said the
Irishinan. 1t was built by Thomas de
. auchamp, Catholic, built with
Catholic money when Richard II, 9
Cathedral in England was owned by the
Catholics. Yez can steal our churches
but, by the howly Mother, yea ean't