Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-06

w Ill Will.
Editor of HERALD Il have
been waiting patiently to see
something like this in the free
trade Statesman:
CONDITION OF TRADE AND COST
OF LIVING.
In the investigation as to the
cost of living the results show
that the cost of living of a fami-
ly of ordinary circumstances was
forty-four one-hundredths of l
per cent less at the end of the
period included in the investiga-
ton Sept. l, 1891 than was in
the beginning
The retail price of 215 articles
at three representative points
Fall River, Mass, Chicago and
Dubuque, Iowa-show a further
decline in the cost of living in
May, 1892, as compared with Sep
TENDER, 1891, of 81 per cent, and
as compared with June, July and
August, 1889, of B. per cent; that
wholesale prices decline at sub
stantially the same rate that
the average prices of all agricul-
tural products except faxseed,
when given their proper relative
Importance, were 1867 per cent
higher in September, 1891, than
at the initial period that the
cost of living increased in Great
Britain in the time named 1.9 per
cent that it would appear that
wages in the United States aver
aged II per cent greater than in
Great Britain.
The above has been made
known to the public by the Sen
ate Committee to inquire into
the condition of trade and the re-
duction of prices of living, etc.
On this committee are two pro-
nounced free trade Democrats
Messrs. Carlisle and Harris.
Or something like this
STATES HAVING CONVICT LEASE
SYSTEM.
Alabama, Arkansas. Florida.
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, N. Carolina, S. Caro-
lima and Tennessee. All Demo-
cratic states. Twenty-six Re
publican states pay an average
of $1.33 per day ; IS Democratic
states pay an average of $0.87
per day. Forty-siX cents pei
day amounts in one year to &l38
w. Virginia pays7 IS cents, while
Ohio across the line pays $l.0i
per day; Kentucky, Sc cents, II.
linois, adjoining, $1.13 per day
Missouri, 81 cents, Iowa, also adj
joining, $l.23 Kansas, $1.lO.
Mr.. Editor what makes the diff
ference in wages? w. Va.
Kentucky and Missouri are Dem.
ocratic States.
The Statesman has had a great
deal to say about the strike at
Homestead and hot words of con.
demnation of Mr.. Carnegie anC
his money. When w. S. Scott
ten times a millionaire, locked the
men out of his mines two OF
three years ago the Statesman
remained as silent as a clam,
When a few years ago trouble
occurred between some white
and cOlored men at Marshall
town, Mississippi, and pending
ing an examination in the court
house, armed white men entered
and killed Is and wounded as
many more colored men, a Re-
publican Senate made an effort
to appoint committee to inves-
tigate the affair; the Democrats
claimed it was unconstitutional,
but it was constitutional to in
vestigate the Homestead trouble,
no interference with the rights
of the State at all. Somebody
has said consistency, thou art
a jewel"
see the junior Senator of w.
Virginia, according to a city pa,
per, has been through the State.
and found the people tooth and
toe against the "fo'ce bill The
force bill does not bother the PEG.
pie, it is free trade no working
man in the country will support
a party whose slogan is " free
trade" and | will add roast beet
once a week, as it was in the
good old Democratic days before
the wah. FAUST.
Washington, July %, 80.
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