Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-10-14
Remarks Of the y. Y. Sun 1883 on
the Real Issue OF 1892.

One duty of government is to protect
the laber Of its citiEens Last gear cheap
foreign labor vas imported into the Uni
ted States IN the shape Of manufactured
goods to fhe sstue Of 1892 gre. 76s.-
This WIS a great wrong to American
labor In that immense amount of i'm
ports. permitted by our insufficient and
defective tariff, the labor Of women EN-
ployed in the Manchester, England, cot
ton misss, whose wages do not average
$50 year. came iuto competition with
me higher priced labor Of oar Southern
and Northern cotton spinners In that
mass Of imports was the labor Of German
factory workmeu averaging less than
Sis ye1r, aud that OF women aver
sging less than $50 year.
Munich is gallery and center Of art.
German women with as many as six
children saw wood in its streets for hf-
teen cents day. May a merciful God
sink the United States ten thousand feet
under che sea before the hideoHs specta-
Gle shall become an incident of our civil
hzatioH.
Nearly 500. 900 900 worth of the
starvation labor of Europe in tie form of
manufactured goods imported into this
country last year. That which came
from Belgium in bales and boxes repre-
scented the wages Of twenty two cents a
day for women and forty three cents for
men; and the highest priced labor in
loose caigoes Of Belgian steel and iron
represented wages less than eighty cents
day Compared with these the wages
Of Caruegie's men at Braddock are the
income II princes.
italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year
IN competition with American labor at
prices that should fill sensitive souls
with horror and alarm the thoaghtful for
the future Of the human race. The pay
IN the cotton factories Of Naples is 20
cents day: of the Neapolitan nars e
and granite cutters. from 40 to so cents
day, according to skill; of coachmen,
30 cents; Of women in lace factories, 10
eents- and girls, cents; Of soldiers in
the army, 81 month OF all the
vorkmen in the glass works Of italy,
only the skilled blowers receives as high
as 81 per day, and lahorers on farms
hoeiny or making hay. from IS to Is
cents day. working from sun to sun.
Sod save America from ssch wages.
10 the Swiss sir goods which came
into our half protected country last year
in those seven hundle,l millions Of i'm.
ports, was the skilled labor Of mon at II
cents day, and of women at 81 c nts,
both competing with the silk viewers of
Paterson, New York, Philadelphia and
Cheney. Glasgow, in Scotland is the
steamship factory of tic world, and its
blast furnace owners aud iron rollers
howl for free trade day and night. of
the families in that manefac airing ST.
dom, At 600 out of 100, 900 live in one
room, and half Of the men and women
10 the city are chrOnicaliy out of wopk
That one room for a family Of father,
mother, daughters and sons tells what
wages are in Scotland. aud how they
drag humanity down into bessiaity 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 igh. it to its death. aad then
make your tariff so protective as to shut
out cheap foreign labor III the form Of
nsE1fistured goods.