Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-04

gl1ttering nope OF advancement. ire
wealth and its power are all about |
them. They slave like beasts and dream |
Of ultimate place among the money kings /
of Liverpool
After years Of faithful service, and a. a |
time of life when no new career is possible, |
they are met by the stone wall Of indiier-
ence on the peri Of their employer, help |
lessly see the posts of trust about and
above them filed by still cheaper imported
help from Germany and Holland, and
come 70 be hopeless old men at forty.
Clerks in retail establishments, Of whom 4
the greater number are women, fare better
in one respect. While their wages are even
less than thOsein Offices, "a system is in vogue
here which gives them at least the necessi-
ties Of life. A large number Of establish
ments provide food and dormitories for
their stats. A regime Of the utmost Sc
verify exists but the employers thus Sc
cure the advantage Of absolute surveil-
lance Of the miserable truck" system in
another form, where all they give is got
back with profit, and the dOcile, unques-
tioning labor Of their prisOn-kept white
slaves from in the morning until and
sometimes 10 o'clock at night.
Looking at the great army Of more lowly
toilers and house servants. the study Is
certainly not a pleasanter one. There are
large gangs Of girls known as cotton
pickers," who may be seen at the noon
hour wandering bareheaded through the
streets, their beggarly garments covered
with cotton lint. Those who are not bare
footed wear heavy clogs without stockings,
and they will kick shins with any rough in
Liverpool for a pot Of beer. Many cargoes
of damaged cotton arrive here. IL Is sold
by auction 20 a class Of dealers who dry it
and prepare it a second time for the mar
ket Two or three thousand of the hood
lum class Of young women sort or pick"
this stuff in filthy noisOme pens. The en-
9loyment is not steady, and they get what
the renovators have "A mind TO pay-al the
way from four TO ten shilings per week.
These girls and women are about as re-
spectacle as men would be under like cir
cumstances. drink gallons Of beer per day
while at work, clubbing" their pennies
for its purchase; ferociOusly beat those
who do not drink fair" and live in any
manner they may, there being absolutely
no effort on the part Of any person or soei-
ETY. TO better their condition
Plain cooks in houses, restaurants and
the common grade Of inns will earn eight
shillings per week. A general house ser
want receives six shillings. A housemald,
nurse and waitress combined, who is re-
gar,ied as the highest grade Of house ser
want, may receive eight shilhngs- Char
women or scrubwomen receive three shil-
I lings per day and breakfast-that is, tea
and breadi aud butter, and they may posi-
/ bly, secure two engagements per week.
/ Washerwomen are very glad 70 earn alto
/ 0ether ten shillings per week, and perhaps
! their assistants may get from a shilling "a
one and fOurpence a day and tea" OF
three hap'worth Of bitter" which trans
lated means three cents worth OF bitter
beer.
Girls in tobacco. confectionery and sta
TONERS shops will receive from four to si1
shillings per week, and mattresses In res
taurants. considering the severity and
hours Of their labor are the poorest paid
/ of all Many Of these girls are required q
serve meals in gentlemen's chambers and
in Offices at all hours, after the manner Of
the Havana cOolie cantineros, and are sub
iect 70 all manner Of insult, which they en-
dure with a dOgged bravery and CHEEKY In,
vulnerabiliJy emitting them to be regarded
as real heroines in any other land
There is a very fine cafe at the head o
Dale street where nearly thousand EN-
ployers and clerks from the Cotton ex
change and neighboring offices lunch o
dine daily. 1t will rank with our bette
class American restaurants. The entir
services by women. There are from twen
ty-five to thirty as comeiy, cleanly, bright
well educated and thoroughly respectabl
Young women here as could be found q
anv aristocratic levee in New York or L0r
don. Having often been served at th
place, at the same table and by the sam
waitress, asked her ths account OF wags
per week she was paid
~six shillings." she replied cheerily.
'sCannot you find service at bette
wages Ia Iiverpoolf" inquired.
'sOh, no, sir; that is very good pay here
"Do you get any tips besidesS
"Very seldom, sir. Only occasionah
, from strangers. The clerks who come her
: can't afford IL. and the masters never
! that in Liverpool"
"And this six shillings per week Is a
; Won do earn, OF can earn, after good ed
) cation and while using the best years
: your lifes"
4 -Oh, but you must remember, sir'-ar
Z this triumphantly-'we get our own Toe
!. besides; and very good food il is, sirf'
I There was no use OF continuing the /
!. ouisition. Here was the absolute limit
|. a handsome capable, well educated al
respectable woman's possibilities and asI
/ rations, because Of her own absolute know
A edge in the matter. in this second city
e Britain.
; %Ah, but money has twice the purch'
n ing mower in Great Britain that Il has
= ! America." some one remarks.
+. There never was q crueler political
e other falsehOod coined Il il ahsolute
: true that there Is not a human need,
!. not say luxury. which cannot be
a cheaply OF more cheaply purchased
e America than in England. barring the o
,e item OF a habitation- The burning fact
n that the lowly OF this country are ford
70 live twice or thrice as meagerly a. Q
4 own toilers. Here capital has, with oev
4 fsh ingenuity-as IL may do with Us In tii
II immigration be not soon wholesome
II restricted - ascertained % a farthing
how little human beings who labor ~
y be made 10 exist, aud Britons who ''nev
4 never win be slaves" are slaves Of
q most hopeless character from the cradle
a the grave
But what may be the amusements 9
D. diversions Of the Liverpool lowiyi L
~ / nafural inuuirr They are drink, dril