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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-03-19
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The following programme will be
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AA' ANTED.-Boarder In q small family
W Apply at the HERALD office. 3-l4-lm
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NNTANTED.--A girl for general house work
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NOR SALE.-The lumber in my stable will
4 be sold cheap as the same must be removed
Apply to Geo H. williams, III
South Main street. Shenandoah. 3-16-1w
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nor RENT.-A desirable store room on
II South Main street Possession given first
Of April Apply to Sylvester Pappert, t19 S.
Main street. 3-5tf
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NOR SALE.-Cheap, q one-horse spring
II wagon with top Also a two-seat surrey
with extension top Apply to Fred. Burlthart,
% North Main street. 3-3-tf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

lea, | went into restaurant on Thames
street where the labonng men 20 by the score
Tor their meals, and had breakfast with them
cup oil coffee costs 3 centR, dread and but
ter cents, aud for myself and another |
paid 9 cents in all for breakfast Usually the
men have fish called bloater Tor which
they pay cents. When they can afford it
they. get a meat pie for 4 cents potatoes
cents, bacon cents, or beans 2 cents These
dock men, though paid y cents an hour,
average much less, as thousands Of them are
idle at time, and very few set more than
tive or SIX hours day throughout the year
mason in London gets l 5 cents an hour
anda bricklayer cents per hour. The police
man on the dock informed me that he received
from $500 to S7.35 per week, according to
grade. Ia the bank of England there are 20
men on guard. OF these a private gets -
cents day and a corporal 36 cents, work
ing from sunrise TO sunset. 4 laborer III the
streets gets from 90 cents TO 81 20 per day
An omnibus driver, working , hours day, is
paid Sl.92. He begins at S 80 A. NJ. and
runs until midnight driving three horses Mt a
time and using up II horses during the Is
hours in which he is employed.
THE CHEAP cLoTHfSG CRY.
A great deal has been said about cheap
clothing Tor working people. Take, for
instance, carpenter in New York who gets
81 per week; in - weeks he earns 1.092.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22
them to an American eye.

them TO an American eye.
Picture such home in one OF New
EnEiand's thriving mill townsl Imagine
Bailey Court for instance, in any OF our in-
dustyial cities Here are two rows OF teue-
ments built OF brick with their only breath
Ing spot a stone court yard in the rear not
four feet wide The largest room in the house
is the one you enter from the street and has
but one window, four feet long and two feet
high, Little panes OF glass but "A few inches
square make up this window The stone
floor is h8re-sometimes with rug here and
tfere-an uncovered tahleserves for the family
toeat from, and up stairs are the two sleeping
rooms which are as many as any family, no
no matter how large, can afford This
home costs 81 cents "A week rent. Sir
Francis Powell. NJ. F.. owns these tenements,
and they are over 100 years old.
THE STORY or TWO BUTCHERS.
Two butchers who live there told me some
thing Of their existence. One has a wife and
five children. another a wife and three chill
dren. The latter said his food cost as fol-
lows: Butter, 20 cents per pound -four 10
cents per pound; beet s to 20 cents per
pound pork, II to | 6 cents per pound sugar,
g rice, to q cents; cheese, y TO 10 cents;
milk, cents per quart; chickens. 40 TO 90
cents each potatoes, 20 pounds fol "A cents.
HOW a SLATER EXISTS OF 80 DAY
4 slater whom met said he earned 81 80
per day and paid cents each night for his
lodging. He said he could hoard by the week
for 81 30. He preferred to live another way
though and paid about the following sum for
his meals
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

the people of the two countriesl The one the
greatest PrOtoctionist nation in the world
and the other the leading exponent OF Free
Trade The one having it's people contented
and well fed and the other starving or pau
pers. Remember, also, iu making this com
parison that our country is annually adding
10 its population hundreds OF thousands uf
immigrants made up OF the poorer classes
from foreign nations and that they form the
larger part OF our paupers.
Liverpool reached, my next move was to
get 90 Wigan, 6 miles distsPt. at the en-
trance to the Black Country where IL, 900
people are said to live but really only exist
At the railway station OF the London &
Northwestern road learned from the enpi-
neer in charge of the train that he got Sl.6S
per day OF ten hours. On express trains the
pay is : so for ten hours fremen get u. 30.
The conductor told me he had 81. - per day;
TINT tracEmen had 81 cents; track layers
81 sc per week laborers 20; machinists
first class. 81 S. and second class S6.12 per
week Talking further with this engineer, |
learned from him that - had two children
at work receiving s 6S each week, while
his wife worked in a factory for $50. He
lived in three rooms for which he paid 3 81
rent per week Let railway employees in Amer
lea compare these wages with their own
more than twice as largel
Wigan again, and Bailey's Court What
picture of hopeless misery and despair it is
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

homes OF our Industrial classes. well fed and
Wen clothe,k and contrast them with the
wretched Iluces called homes in Merrie En-
Elanr~Sif, ! say, all of YOU could have trav-
esd around among Euelauds workers as |
did, there would not be one among you who
would not denouuce as a traitor to this
ton the man or the party that advocated
FreeTrade policy for America
FACrs NEVER CoNTBADICTEp.
Though my report to You four years ago
went into every city and village IN this couu-
try, and was mailed abroad as we'll have
yet TO hear the facts therein stated contra
dicted or my deductions challenged The
Free-Trade press has ever since followed me
with its vituperatious and msrepreseuta-
tons, hut though four years have passed not
one of them mas attempted 10 dispute the
truth OF my statements ! have taken the
same care this summer TO have my data as
to wages and ways of living udisput ably es-
rablshed, and undertake TO prove to the
satisfaction of any unpreiudiced man the
truth OF every line in this document
A rITMBLE PICTURE REPRODUCED.
My tour this summer covered much the
same territory as that through which trav-
sle1 in the summer OF 1881 left New York
in July and returned to it September Is. in
that time | travelled the Black Coup ry, as it
II called of England, visited many Of the
same places and saw many of the same faces
as four years ago. Time had not dealt kindly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

He purchases for himself during year cloth
ing to the amount Of sos, which is a very
large sum He has eft 81 OPT.
A carpenter in England receives 81 90 per
week for 80 weeks. which amounts to
S411S4. Take from that S43 for his
clothing in England, for himself he has left
S36S.S4, while the American carpenter has
$1,027
Now, canany Free Trader make any figures
that will enlghten the American working
man any better than these facts2
HOW ENGLAND RAISES HER INCOME
Itissaid by the Democratic party and many
Others that the English people are not taxed
that Free Trade being England = national
policy the consumer is freed from any tariff
on his purchases. But has the American
workman ever thought of how England raises
S462, 500 300 OF yearly reYenue2 Scarcely
an article on the English dinner table If with
out a tax-and tax, too, TINT is directly
paid by the consumer. Tea pays 5 cents
pound, coffee 4 cents beer which is largely
consumed by the whole population, pays
sos a barrel tax, cocoa pays cents. choco-
late 4 cents; fruits pay various duties. To
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

working as blacksmiths Let me give you a
little picture of one smithy.' 1t was n low
brick building. separated from n dwelling
house by not more than three feet in the
married and another was but 2 years old.
She was making chain in the smithy when
looked in, aud at the forges about her were
five other women all tOiliug away from . in
the morning until 8 at night-a stretch Of ,
hours for which each was paid SO cents. 1t
was most pitiiul sight in eel.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SIDE by SIDE
Next to Mrs Fosbrook . blacksmith shop
was that OF Mrs. Polly Foxes. who was
working away at the anvil as ! passed by
surrounded by four women and a boy ell
making chains. They got 80 cents a day
apiece so they told me. Mrs. Foxes two
daughters were O work, too and one OF
them Miss Polly Foxes, made me a piece of
twisted chain feet long in - minutes. and
another piece of plain chain , feet long in 10
minutes. | have both chains in my office in
New York City. Polly Foxes blows the bel
lows herself and handles the tongs AS a man
would a piece ut meat on fork. Annie
Foxes. her sister. who was iG years old
earns 30 cents a day; but after paying the
blower boy and for coal she L a. only 81 20
LETT each week for her work. 4 Mrs. Francis,
who was making what Is called No. l chain IL
married and - years old, earus 30 cents a
day. Her daughter works by her side and
gets the came pay. The blower boy is paid
"a cents a day, lie told me he was ) years
old.
THRTY-FoCR YEARS AT CHAIN MAKING.
Further down the yard in another black
smiths shop, Mrs Henrietta Parry. 80 years
old. told me che had worked "a years at the
forge making chain. and never getting more
than 80 cents per day.
j. it TO be wondered that these people often
give way under the terrible strain OF such
daily burdens and prefer the poOrhouse or an
early grave 70 such slave life at the FORGE
HUSBAND, WIFE AND DAUGHTERS
In another section of the city called Dudley
Woods, the property of Lord Dudley, found
Mr. and Mrs Benjamin Dillingham; both k
ing chains. Her husbaud.said be made - Os
q week, when be worked from > in the morn
ing until Z al night His two daughters
worked in the same shop with him, as well
as his wife.
DO vE WANT THIS IN AMERICA?
Next door ! saw q scene that would touch
the heart OF the sternest. Mrs Margaret lib
bits, IS years old. was working at thefOrge,
while her tao sons and Der daughter were
hammering chain IN O chair at one end Of
the shop was her baby, tied IN 50 that the lit
tie one could not fail TO the -four. Mr. lib
bits told me that she had made chain Tor
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

OF - stililngs for a weeks work leaving 4
shIliings g pence for clothing and all other
eXpensesJ Beyond this she could not 20. and
she was much betterinformed or more willing
70 give information than most OF the women
questioned
AND YET SHE WAS AT THE FORGE!
At another fire. Josenb Walters and his
vile were employed on dog-bead spiles. The
man was thin and worn, though his wife was
stout They had family OF eight young
children, and 1T was evident from Mrs " al
teFs appearance that this number would
soon De increased; indeed, she was com PLAN
ing OF feeling very shaky. and had to go INTO
the house and lie down during the day The
par OF them could earn 16 shillngs or Z shil-
iibgs per week, by working "a 10 ! hours a
day From this they had 10 ind breeze, shop
feht and tools, which would run up to smut
Ihgs or shlllngs 6 pence week. mus LOT
aog chains OF, say. AZ feet long, made OF -
men Tons and consisting7of SO twisted INKS,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

mechanic and well do know from my per
souHl experience what fair days pay means
to the woTkingman, and the comforts that
IRE given or denied his iamlly. according 10
whether he is well or poorly paid. A said
IN 1888 IN presenting my picture OF the
wgrkugmuua life in Free-Trade England,
] have no wish to paint he colorE any blacker
than they IRE. God knows they need no col
oriug from me 10 make them such that no
man wants to look upon their like a second
tins. II every worklngman in America could
20 where | have gone the last two months
and see whit have seen among the working
elasses OF Eugiand-Could take with him the
picture Of the comfortable aud cOntented
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

ing there on AUGUST -, and from Mr.. james
Catan editor Of The Sunday Chronicle. /
secured considerable information about the
strike OF the nail makers against reduced
wages. and also the cuts printed on another
page representiug the poverty-stricken women
working at the smItheries for a bare pit
tauce-wh ich is not so large. however. but
that the employers bad some thought OF
reducing Hence 5000 men, women and lit
tie children who made nails in the desperate
effort to keep soul and body together went
out on strike, and their suderings as result
are beyond my powers OF description
Perhaps the best insight into the condition
of these nail and chain makers OF South
iaifordshire can best be Portrayed by ex-
tracts from an official report TO the British
House OF Commons by Henry g. CaIcraft.
labor correspondent OF the Board of Trade.
Mr. Calcraft described bis Investigations as
follows:
PICTURE OF SAIL-MAkER's ROME.
Joseph Wilks, a man of 40 found max
ing 2l2-iuch cone-headed mills for which the
price was shilIngs pence per hundred
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

receipt bin costs you cents each time and
various other obnoxious forms Of direct tax
are enforced and iall most heavily on the
poorer classes.
The Gust ON houses Of Great Britain return
TO the government nearly a hundred million
year. and il can fairly be stated that these
tariff duties being on the Democratic plan for
revenue only are indeed q tax and a bur Ten
on highlands population. Next 20 the Gus
toms duties the excise brings IN the largest
revenue 10 the government, aggregating
Sis, 6T4 sol last year
IRELAND TAXED TO DEATH
Well may Ireland say that she j. taxed 20
death when see that she page the British
government S2I, 7+5, SO each year, or about
81 $50 for each person. This II N addition 70
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22
FREE TRADE SLAVERY
A Thrilling Account of the Condition of
Working People in
FREE TRADE ENGLAND.
Nathaniel McKay's Trip Abroad and What He Saw-No
One Can Deny the Facts Presented

to death 10 relieve them from a toll TO which
in life there is no ending
Freo-TrHdei MOI Slaye-Tradel Aud even
worse than that IL is, and the eve that ran
witness this spectacle Undimmea or the
heart that does not 20 out iu sympathy, has
no place for humanity. But Frpe-Trade is the
c5iu-c of IT, audtor that reason Is the curse OF
England.
ENGLAND's ARMY or PAupERs.
l landed in Liverpool in August On the
steamer going over ! picked up Whittakprs
almanac, and found 'romits pages that there
We're ga, 42l paupeIs I'M Great Britain in q
population Of 35,2IG, 562. That Is one TO
every 3G people. According to our last Fed
eral census we have only % 2G5 paupers
among the G5, 100000 ia the United states,
or one in every G43 Of population In En-
gland 3 per cent. OF the people are paupers
and charges on the counties; in his country
but 10 per cent. One Jer-On out OF every ?
in the United Kingdom : aeds parish relief to
keep him from starvation. 1t cost S49,i6T.-
3f5 last year 10 support Eugand's pauPpIs
lH l.oHuOn out OF 9 persons who die. , die IN
q wurkhOuse. hospital or other pubicinstitu-
ton in Manchester 1t il but ont OF every ,
aud, in Liverpool aud Birmingham, l out OF
every g. A couple Of years ago return was
ISSUED by the Giusgow Medical Officer OF
Health IN which be showed that ont of every
100 houses IN Glasgow 30 consisted of only
] room - OF , rooms IL of 3 rooms of /
rooms, OF > rooms and upward. Ont OF the
children horn in the oue-rOomed houses, /
out OF every died in infancy; in the houses
consisting of . or more rooms I out OF every
so
IsIT PROTECTION VS. FREE TRADE
What a commentary on the condition Of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

33 years She said Sc | make from TO
shiiiings (Si.44 TO S1.6Sl week Nv son
earns S1-92, nv daughter $1-2O. ] pay for
rent shiIiucs and 9 pence t66 eents) When
| can earn enough money by steady work
have meat two or three times for my meals,
otherwise not.
Returning to Manchester stopped at Bir-
miugham. The barmaids at the station
told me they worked / 6 hours a day Ter
500 year.
TWELVE CENTS An hour FOR sTEyEpoREs.
From Manchester ] went to London and
visited the London docks Stevedorcs there
receive II cents per hour for unloading barges
and ships. They get 30 cents an houriu Amer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

the salary OF the lord lieutenant $500 O00l
and his - associates. with salaries aggrs
eating $500 O00 more. Figures that got
IN London show that 3 407 493 OF ireIand's
people left for America in the last thirty
years and vet freiaud's whole population to-
day Is only three-quarters of million moreI
TIE ECONOMIC ASPECT OF HOME RULE
The English government sends ironclads
to Cork and policemen all over the various
counties of Ireland in Ireland the coustabu-
larry are a governmeutfoUce in Great Britain
they are a municipal force. Is this discrmi-
nation necessary? Before answering the
question, let us look deeper The total num-
Der OF police in Ireland is IS, 9S3 (ineIuding
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

Dublin), and the total cost is So COG, GG5. go,
or S5439S per man; and there is one poIice-
man to every 1886 persons In Scotland the
police number 4, 1915. costing in ali ) SIT
1876, or S43T.3 80 per man, aud there is one
policeman TO every 9S6 persons. Thus the
toree across the channel 3 more costly per
man than the force across the 1w eel while
the cost per head OF population is still
greater, being respectively S1.62 (nearly}
end "a cents. Thus the guardians OF the
peace IN Ireland are not only a more expen-
sive force in every way than those OF Scot
land, but they are III proportion TO the pop
uation, nearly three times as numerous
These figures show that the Royal constabu-
larry keep busy in Ireland.
Per Head Of
For ireland Number Population
SUMMARY convietedo......., l9s,3l9 j to 24G6
Committed for trtal..-..,..... :. lSS 70 2.a.i95
Sent for trial and convicted I,221 ] TO 1902
Total number convicted la5,539 TO 239l
FREE-TRADE WAGES AND PROTECTION WAGES
COMPARED.
/ have secured tins statement OF weekly
wages OF various trudes in Great Britain,
and in New York from Official sources. II
we have Eree-Trade in America we must
reduce our wages to the sumo level OF Great
Britain and other Free Trade countries All
the Republican Protective policy seeks Is to
add the difference in labor in America to all
imported goods iron the othel side OF the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

weight II took 2.376 Of these nails to the
hundredwejght, and he woald mike , hun
dredweigbt in a week tSa.l2) With his wife
70 help him he might make little more
From this he had 10 allow Tor fire, rent OF
shop and tools which wodd be about / shit
ling pence per week. Across the end OF his
hearth Wilks had a rough seat md bench
erected, on which sat two or three OF his
younger children. He said he would never
have married if be had known he had to be a
mailer al his life.
They lived mostly on tea and bread and
bacon. On sunday they might be able to
get morsel OF meat, or 'beef-cheek fox
cheek, to boil and make broth with. Ques-
toned as to the family budget Tor the week,
the wife enumerated as thieb,ef items OF ex-
penditure two quarters Of tea at pence a
quarter; 4 pounds q sugar Mt , pence per
pound; bread, shilGngs to shillings
pence: 1 shilling 10 pene- Tor coal. , shiilngs
Tor house rent, ana l shilling pence for ba-
con Is shilllngs pence in all for living out
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

bv them, especially the women, the sound Of
whose hammerng on the anvil the ctauk OF
the chains at which they work. and the noise
OF che pit upon which they shovel and wheel
coal. were still all too horrible to the ear OF
one accustomed TO seeing the mothers
wives and sweethearts OF his fellow-work-
men comfortably housed and spared the ter
rible burdens which these unfortunates have
20 bear
Where. in our land OF the free. ask you.
can we Ind mother AMI daughter-aye' and
oftsn Crnnddsu Shter-tuiiing day after day
for a lifetime side by side, a; the forge or on
the coal pitt
Where throughout out broad lands are our
women made 10 slave ike beasts OF burden-
nl-paid, poorly fed and clad, and looking only
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

The sunshine OF life shut out By clouds
darker aud thicker than those hanging over
the town. From tall chimney tops columns
OF black smoke shoot upward from grea
buildings. soot-covefed and hegrimed with
the dust O! ages. are heard the hum OF turn
ing wheels. aud the roar Of busy machinery
trucks laden with st,tffs more precious to
England than human h'e-tbe tokens Of her
boosted commercial suPr macy over land and
ses-hll the streets with deaien.ng noise,
while long rows OF low brick tenements, Two
stories high with stone floors. with little win
dovs. afordiur scare a breath OF pure fresh
air or "a ray of bright sunshine stands mute
reminders that the passing throag o. poorly
dressed men and women have places they
call home, however little OF home there Is IN
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

As he receives Sl32 per day he has leit
after this seanty living 81 cents | asked
him what he did with this balance | swal-
low it. said he. meaning that he spent it
Tor liquor. Then ! asked him as to the cost
OF his clothes IN year, and got these figures,
which are a fair average for a years supply
for this type OF workman:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

Dc paid Id each. 4 very skilful woman could
90 IL dozen IN week ifehe worked il or x
hours per day Herrent. tools and FIRE would
possibly run to ! shilliugs for the week
entering a domestic shop found two
women making chain aad another making
bob nails. One Is a woman OF 20, who
Is tbe mother Of six children and ex-
poets another shortly She is making
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

TIE MIsERFs OF CRADLEY HEATH.
Cradley Heath Is ut the other end Of the
Black Country" from Wigan, and | weat
there alter lea wing Manchester That is where
women by the hundreds are to be found
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-22

y N TIIIIf 1t IVN v. 7 NE ftNIFF
What a commentary on the condition Of
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1892-10-01
u. s. Court Matters.

Deputy u. s. Marshal Con McCarty
arrested Ella Childers, white wo-
man. in Lexington Thursday, charged
with breaking open letters addressed
to another party. She will be tried
before Com missioner Scott, in Lex
ington, on Monday.
H. H. Quire, of Henry county, who
is charged with sending an obscene
letter through the mails had an ex-
aiming trial yesterday before Com
missioner Chinn and was held over
in $500 bond to appear at the January
term Of the Federal Court.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1892-10-01

A reported outbreak of cholera at
Helmetta, N. j., created much ex-
element in that vicinity. Investiga-
tion showed that the disease was not
cholera but a violent dysentery
which is almost as severe and danger
GUS as cholera. Mr.. Walter Willard,
a prominent merchant of Jamesburg,
two miles from Helmetta, says Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a
Remedy has given great satisfaction
in the most severe cases of dysen-
terry. 1t is certainly one of the best
things ever made. For sale by j. W..
Gayle, Druggist. I'm