The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-08-22

II there is any paper in the coun-
try that more than another has OPP
posed tho Mckinley tariff with evident
hostility that paper is the Chicago
Tribune, one oil tho leading papers Of
the northwest. For this reason IL is diff
cult to account for an article that APP
pearad in its columns July "a, from
Hermann Raster, late editor of the
Illinois stGats Zcitung, who died a
few days ago at small watering place
in Germany whlthor no had gone for
the benefit OF his health. Tho Staats
Zeitung is also well known as having
strong Democratic tendencies. The
letter referred to, first appeared in tho
zeitung and subsequently in the Trl-
buno, and the following are tho latters
comments:
In recent letter from Hermann
Raster printed in the Stats Zeiturg
tie has soEin thing about the people in
the neiEhborhood OF the little bathing
place VIII re hc Is staying. They are
we1vers by trade, and under average
circumstances each OF them earns
abont 40 cents n day on which to sup
port himself wife and what children
lie may have. The Democratic Free,
Trade orator will say at once that
everything is much cheaper abroad
than here and that the 10 cents are the
equivalent OF a great many more in
American money.
This Is Mr.. Rasters statement OF what
the weaver buys with his wages daily
for himself, wife and four children:
Kent OF the single room they occupy,
which contains the loom, cooking
| utensils and bed, and Is IL X Is feet,
"a cents per day; n 5-pound loaf Of
bread, made OF rye and barley, 1872
cents; q quart and half OF skinned
| milk, LIZ cents; half peck of potatoes,
80 cents; quarter of a peck OF flour
~ cents satt,0s cent ;kerosene.1 cent,
butter, IL cents; total, 27.6 cents. This
does not leave much leeway for meat
and coal and clothes. The weaver
buys every two or three weeks half a
| pound OF meat with bones and paws a.
bout cents for it. In winter he buys a
hundred weight Of coal, for which he
| pays 70 cents and which lasts him ten
| days.
The American workman is in the
! habitof living somewhat better than
/
to this frugal fare. Bnt he will have
to II his Democratic friends force him
TO enter into competition with men
| who live as these German weavers do.
As he quite ready to take all duties oil
competitiAe goods ami to 20 into a
manufacturiHgwu waste be victor in which
he must initiate tho style OF living Of
his opponenl2
| The REPUBLICAN feels somewhat as
if it is not alone in the advocacy Of
| the doctrine that protection does pro-
tect labor, and if it Is possible that we
arc mistaken, we arc in tho same boat as
these two anti-tarlIT papers just allud-
ed to, either an able compeer of tho
Every Evening, that the latter need
not be ashamed Of. Mr.. Raster seems
to have undergone a change of opin.
ion, after no left Chicago and went to
this little German watering place and
came In contact with tho squalor OF
labor as he saw 1t amongst the Ger
man weavers who labored for 40 cents
day.
When the Chicago Tribune says that
| $50 ASShAOSio lAJ lIdub OIdlDT
will say at once that everything is
much cheaper abroad than here, and
that 40 cents are~the equivalent OF a
great many more in American money"
wehave feeling that the Tribune ex.
changes with the Every Evening, and
has boon reading Its Eighty panegy.
RIGS on the inestlmable blessings OF
| free trade.
We commend to tho working men
OF tho last paragraph of the Tribune's,
comments on Mr.. Rasters letter. Ii
Is exactly on line with a paragraph
at the end OF the REPunLIGAR editorial
a few days ago which was reproduced
il the Every Evening and made basis OF
an, article to show that protection had
nothing to do with the regulation OF
wages. We knew that in the position
we had assumed we reflected full
conccnsus of Republican protection
opinion, but we find now that we re-
ilcctcd the opinion Of at least some
Democratic papers as we'll.