Evening journal., 1892-09-26
A PRACTICAL TALK.
Two Men Discuss the Actual
Condition Here.
LESS WAGES. MORE COMPETITION.

Wages one Hundred Are Getting Less
Than They Got Four Years Ago-sIen
who Got SIG and sIs Now Get $40
When Employed-Laborers Do Not
Average SO a Week for the Year.
Fred-Well, John you have heard Nc.
.linley, as the country is prosperous.
IThy will you not vote for high tariff.
nder which it seems to have come
bout?
John-Because the farmer and work.
|ngmen, who comprise most of our citi-
ems, DO not share in that prosperity
nd arc steadily getting power while the
ich only are getting richer
Fred-That can not be So, surely. for
.ecS's report shows an increase of wages
aid in most Of the industries.
John-les, perhaps it does on paper,
ut it had been proven false even before
was utterly discredited by his refusal
show the public records upon which
was founded and again by his resort to
criminal act in burning them.
fred-Oh that is only political war
IRE because he is Democrat and there
Dre his evidence more damaging.
& John-ln the first place he is that mon
5 rosity, a high tariff Democrat-a Re.
ublican in disguise, and only has re-
aimed a nominal Democrat, the better
serve his Republican paymasters aad
the second place his conclusions may
sily be disproven by conversation with
lie workingmen and their wives of any
E cality, except on the national increase
s I'd growth of commerce generally In
roportion TO population in stray Incl
nts appear to sustain them.
Money Lenders Prosper.
< Fred-Why worlmen here are prosper
lis, am sure look at them on our
reefs they are well dressed and appear
spend money freely.
J0hn-Yes but these are the single
an and women who can fairly prosper
small wages, which are insufficient
a family Of American born freemen.
s. Fred-How do you know that work
en- generally, are not prosperous in
f ilmingtong
John-Because have had daily ac-
laintance with them in their homes
ring the past six years in canvassiag
q collecting, and find them getting
Urcr and receiving less work and wages
ar by year until the position OF the
iority is little better than the foreign
who have supplanted them in most Of
G shops
Fred-Why, I know Of least one man
ho has had his wages raised the past
ar. ! mean Jones.
John-Yes l know him, too, he was
ide foreman because he has a good
liver and bully. but il you viii accom-
ny me for day l will bet you $40 that
u will not find one workman who has
d his wages raised, where | win find
hundred whose wages are below what
ey were four years ago and besides
ey are not now employed over 10
nths in the year. il that long. and
yer know when they can DE sure of
at littlo. There are very many skilled
rkmen in this town who few years
got SIG to $lS where they now are
I'd to receive $40 per week, when they
n got employment.
Fred.-Why. there are men in the
rious shops who have been in them
BADLY many years.
& Iohn-Yes, Of course, the large estab-
{ hments have to keep few trusted
n all the time, but | will venture to
'AA 4 AAAtAA AANAA was HUI q lA0AAAAl VI AAnA
IT when some OF the shops did not lay
90 or 100 men. IT, is the common
Of tho workmen's districts, "Pulman's
d of 100 men last night-Harlan' laid
$50 men yesterday, and so on; why,
y last week Mccullough laid of over
men, it is said, and Harlans some
Ter considerable number. Such is the
nmon cry every month in the year
ely, aud | know that close canvass
uld show that the mechanics Of the
Y do not average $40 per week nor the
Dorers over So a week for the year.
workingmen's Condition Here.
'red-But the banks and merchants
pear to be prosperous.
ohn-As to the banks and money
ders, they make money out of the dis
sses of the poor, but the merchant
irest the people, those of the corner
res, as know by daily contact with
IN, were never worse OF than now,
/, for 4 better test of the workman's
ldition, ask the boarding house keeper
o, with few exceptions, will tell yon
It times We're never worse than during
past summer
'red-why, if wages are so poor, do
many emigrants continue coming
m Europe and Canadal
ohn--As to Canada, they simply come
the natives of Vermont. Maine and
" Hampshire, to the mower states and
ger opportunities of newer country
more moderate climate. Canada, as
hole, is as prosperous or more so than
states have named, but the major
Of the arrivals of the past fsw years
from the highly protected countries
Europe, such as Germany, Italy and
ngary, while the number from free.
de Britain is steadily decreasing and
ess today than to Africa, Australia
other new countries, which as
erica once did. arouses tho colonizing
tincts of the Anglo Saxon race.
'red--Why are wages so much higher
q than in Britainl
ohn-Because the latter is an old
ntry and overcrowdcd and this is a
one under constant development
banding special skin and training to
'elop new manufacture and as fact
wages are twice as high in Britain
amy protected country in Europe,
have quadrupled sinccprotection was
rthrown there.
Free Trade Impossible.
'red-But really You do not believe in
trader
onn-No, nor does any organized
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