The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-13
SHORT TALK TO woRKIxaMEN.


One duty OF government Is to pro.
tect the labor OF It's citizens. Last
year cheap foreign labor was imported
into the United States In the shape OF
manufactured goods to the value Of
$500, 3i6 769, This was great wrong
to American labor. In that immense
amount of imports, permitted by our
insufficient aud defective tariff, the
labor of women employed in the Mar
chester, England, cotton mills, whose
wages do not average $50 year, came
into competition with the higher
priced labor OF our Southern and
Northern cotton spinners. In that
mass OF Imports was the labor OF Ger
man factory workmen averaging less
t1an $l15 year and that OF women
averaging sess than $50 year.
Munich Is gallery and center of art.
German women with as many as six
children saw wood in its ST. Gets for
fifteen cents day. May a merciful
God sink the United States ten thou
sand feet under the sea before the bid.
eous spectacle shall become an incl
dent OF clvilzntioni
Nearly $1,000 900 worth of the star.
walton labor OF Europe in the form Of
manufactured goods imported into
this country last year That which
came from Belgium in bales and box
es represented the wages OF twenty
two cents a day for women and forty
three cents for men; and the highest
priced labor In loose cargoes OF Bel
gian steel and iron re presented wages
less than eighty cents day. Com
pared with these the wages OF Car
negie's mon Mt Bradd ock are the In
comes Of princes.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last
year in competition with American
labor at prices that should fill sen5i.
tive souls with horror and alarm the
thoughtful for the future OF the hui
man race. The pay In the cotton fac.
tories Of Naples Is 20 cents day; OF
the Neapolitan marble and granite cut
ters from 40 to so cents day, accord
ing to skill; OF coachmen. 80 cents; Of
women In lace factories. 10 cents, and
girls, cents; Of soldiers In the army,
81 month. or all the wDrkmen in
the glass works OF Italy, only the
skilled blowers receive as high as 81 II
day, and laborers on farms, hoeing Or
making hay, from IS to ~ cents
day, working from sun to sun. God
save America from such wages!
In the Swiss silk goods which came
into our half protected country last
year in those seven hundred millions
OF imports, was tho skilled labor of
men Mt forty-one cents day, and OF
women at twenty cents, both com
peting with the silk weavers OF Pater-
son, New York, Philadelphia and
Cheney. Glasgow, Scotland, is the
steamship factory OF the world. and
Its blast furnace owners and iron roll
ers howl for free trade day and night.
OF the families In that manufacturing
Sodom. 4 900 out OF 100, 900 live in one
room, and half of the mon and women
In the city ure chemically out of
work. That one room for family of
father. mother. daughters and sons
tells what wages are in Scotland. and
how they drag humanity down into
bestiality and misery.
Brothers! the Mills bill to reduce
the tariff is the first step to that one
room for an American family. Fight
it without delay and fight 1t to its
death, and then make your tariff 30
protective as to shut out cheap foreign
labor in the shape of manufactured
goods. N. Y. Sun, May 81, lSSS.