West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-04-28
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THE TARIFF-ARTICLE vi.

"Pauper labor of Europe"
Prosperous labor of America. Con-
trast them
Let us look at labor in Europe.
All over tho crowded continent tho
laborers are many aud the fields are
fow. The leading business is
butchering-all the ablc-bodied
men are in Though war is n
game which, were there subjects
wise, kings would not play at.
War in Europe drafts men the
ablest to labor and women find out
side work necessity, q relic of
barbarous times which is such q
matter of training and habit that
the strong arm of law suppressed it
IN America. The Hungarian
women in the coke regions of Penn.
sylvania went with their husbands
u few years ago and cheerfully did
the hardest kind of work. From
motives of philonthrophy or from u
desire to protect American labor
from feminine competition the
legislature of Pennsylvania prohibi-
ted women from working with mon
in such places. That is, ] admit,
one instance Of protection to Amer
lean labor. Some of the Hungarian
women asscrrc5 their right to work
at the coke ovens until the police
enforced obedience to the law. If
the armies Of Europe were disban-
doned and the constabulary were to
compel women to rest from field
labor. perhaps tho old country
women would submit TO the ineyi.
table as those Hungarian women
did in Pennsylvania.
Put yourself in Europe. BE a
pauper laborer for the time beng.
Hear Of IA land where manufacturing
industries arc placed, Saul-like,
head and shoulders above others
equally deserving. Learn of allur
ing wages, but not of discouraging
lockouts, shut-downs, and enforced
idlenoss for half the year. The
commodity which your pauper labor
produces is pauperized still more by
tariff duties which excludes il from
that land. Fortune seems to smile
from afar. What you manufacture
you can't sell there, but you can
sell your labor. Capital and man
ufactured wares arc protected there,
but labor is not. You are free to
come with your labor in hand, but
not with your labor in the concrete
form Of the manufactured article.
YOU COME.
The pauper labor Of Europe
becomes the protected labor Of that
glorious land Of which you have
heard. You are now in America,
say for the sake Of argument, in
South America, and in free
republic. You seek work to pay
back the friend who furnished your
passage money. You declare your
intentions of citizenship and see the
pauper labor Of Europe becoming a
factor in the politics Of young re-
public in America, and you the
qW0nddm pauper laborer ascending
to the heights Of Republican civil
rights, find yourself transfgurcd
on the Mount Tabor Of Columbian
citizenship. Your pauper labor is
a pauper labor no more. Some
poor follow was glad to get your
place when you left Buda Posth and
some other fellow Is Jostled little
when you crowd in here.
But 10 laborers arc plentiful
here, too, and more tramps by oGds
than back in Buda-Pesth. Well,
you must push in. You 90 TO a
small factory employing nine men
and you ask the proprietor to give
you work YOU persist YOU will
work for II per cent less than the
wages Of one Of these niue employ
e.. The proprietor sees at once
there is a gain Of one ninth more in
production. It's n capital idea.
lie cuts their digmGcd Columbian
labor down and up goes your pau
per Europenean labor
Such is the way Columbian wage.
carners arc protected against the
pauper labor Of the old world.
Your labor is thrown upon the
Columbian market and along with