The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-29
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WAGE QUESTION AT LAST SOLVED.
The Solution Not Acceptable to Manu-
facturers and Protectionists.

The Solution Not Acceptable to Manu-
faeturers and Protectionists.
The New York Press of Sept. 90, says
that about !. 900 immigrants land weekly
at New York to find employment In do
nestle service, and that the stoppage of
immigration has raised the wages of
girls doing general homework from
twelve dollars to from sixteen to twenty
dollars per month.
Now, what an object lesson this is for
Mckinley, Harrison, Carnegie and the
other tender hearted friends of labor
who have been trying in vain to raise
wages. This cholera scare has cost us
millions of dollars, but it will be pay
ing investment to the present admins
tration if it has civ IN us solution of
this wage question. Hundreds Of mil
lions have been invested in the McKi1.
ley bill and other high tariff mcasur n
to no purpose. Now, almost by ac
dent, the question is solved right /
front of our eyes. And how simple u
complete. No theory and no gus
work! Wages actually advanced 80
cent. in few weeks, and the cause
not be disputed by any party! II
not caused by a high or low duty OF
any duty at all ON goods.
1t was caused by the stoppage Of
migration. Nor is it strange when l
matter is considered under this II,
light, for isn't the labor market ru
by the same law of supply and dema
that fixes prices everywhere? And i.
not the immigrant who has been bi-i
ing in fresh supplies of labor, to rec.
wages here almost to the European le
when productper Garner is consider
1t is by checking immigration and n
goods, then, that we may hope to MAJ q
tain higher wages here-if they really
are higher. And now you would think
all of the generous and sympathetic mil
honaire friends of labor would at once
begin to make laws to stop immigration.
No; such is not likely to be the case. In
fact these good manufacturers are likely
to fight against duty on imported labor
as hard as they fight for duty on i'm
ported goods. They had their contract
labor laws" in the sixties to induce i'm
migration here to keep wages down, and
it is their boast that protection" en-
courages immigration.
The New York Tribune said on this
same day Sept. 22): "Protection has
been our policy for thirty years. Ten
millions of aliens have been brought
from Europe and supplied with remu-
nerative employment under the stimu-
lative effects of a tariff policy" The
same New York Press also boasts edito-
rally that our high tariff policy is
draining Europe of the cream of her
laborers, and that the monarchs there
are doing their best to keep subjects at
home. What is the poor laborer to do?
Shall he continue to place his trust il, n
party that for thirty years has been ~
perimenting in the wrong direction 10
raise wages, and that will not adopt liz
solution now that it comes from anotl ~
direction? Shall he form a new par. !,
to stop immigration, or does this big
and thickly settled country have heed
of the Drawn squeezed out of the mon
arches of Europe? How would it do to
take duties off of the necessaries of life
and raise wages at once by increasia5
their purchasing power? Perhaps after
all, it is less and not more interference
with trade and commerce that is in the
interact of Labor