The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-13

Andrew Carnegie no longer needs pro-
lection because he is rich: be admits that
It's destruction will cause decline in wages,
50 be turns 10 his former workingmen In
America and says: You must learn to
live on less and then you can get along on
lesser wages. American workmen live TOO
well, eat too good food. wear too good
clothes. live in too good houses" The
gist Of Mr.. Carnegie's logic Is that the
American workingmau can live on English
wages, IL be will be content with meat
once q week, wear a coarse blouse instead
Of . coat. live In 9 mud-foored howell in
stead of comfortable house. DIR. Carne-
gle does not say IL, bat IL Is true that II an
American workman lived on rice he could
live on Chinese wages. Mr. Carnegie
seems 90 think that the less q man can
live on the less be should receive.
We believe 10 Is Senator Mills, Of Texas,
who holds that 10 cents o day IL enough
for q man. provided he can live on IL. The
theory of self-respecting American labor -
that the workingman's wages should be
determined by his productive power and
by the general profits OF the industry in
which he 10 engaged. The New York
Tribune biuntly says: "The laborer is
worthy of his nirs. and II is not the bush
ness OF Mr.. Carnegie. nor any body else.
how much or how little he can live upon. 4"
Let Us examine Mr.. Carnegie's assertion
that 'workmen In America can live
cheaper than those In England" This Is
only true with the provlso. IF the work
men in America would DO content TO live
a. English workmen do" Ii 10 true that
every necessary Of life. as the
ssrm 10 popularity understood, is
cheaper in the United States than in Eng
land with the exception OF clothing and
household utensils OF metal and pottery.
Meat. bread, milk. vegetables. butter and
cheese are all dearer in England than
here. They are SO much dearsr that not
even the highly skilled aud best paid
British workmen aspire TO more than two
fresh meat dinners In a week, and q small
lump of butter for large family on sun
day. For the rest he Is content with
bread. cheese. soups. porridges. the eoarser
vegetables and beer. A correspondent OF
the Philadelphia Press who has compared
the style Of living Of the English iron and
steel workers OF Sheffield and Middlesboro
with that Of the same class in Pi.ssburg,
pethlshem and Chester. and the con-
disions Of life among the ship builders on
the Clyde and Tyne with those on the
Delaware, says:
IF by some stroke OF magic you could
al once reduce the fare OF the 1900 men
who work At Cramps 10 that of the men
who work in the yards ~ Fairfield OF
Ciydehank and try 10 hold them 10 IL for q
week, there would be riots IN kensigton
and Port Richmond TO shake this munich.
pality 10 its center"
The question Is not how eheaply . work
man can live in America. but how eheapiy
he IL willing 10 live The question how
cheApiy a workman can live in America 10
answered by the Huns and Italians In
Pennsylvania. Who are fed by contract al
the rate Of IL cents per day per head By
sAsir own choice. they authorizing that
amount deducted from their wages 10 pay
their board. The correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Rsa visited the camp oi
these Huns and Italians. near Galitxin.
and saw their dinner. IL Was Q vegetables
coup. mainly cabbage carrots and posA-
toes. boiled with bones and meat scraps
which we're actually the refuse Of the city
Of Altcona. and which, bot for the grus-
some market afforded By this gang o:
Huns. would have gone 20 the gareAgs
hesp. bus which IN this case Was aecama-
lated and saved for small consideration
By hotsis and private houses for the con-
tractor Who fed the Huns
The wages OF the Hans vas sLio pe'
DAY, which With the II cents for board de
Quoted lsis them - cents net. Ga, Of thi.
,am these Huns save al least "a cents :
dsy and after eve or ak years 50 back r.
Hungary with what is to them = hstls
fortune. aaa their places in America are
taken BY another mob % Githy, hali-ssd
nAloaorous naisers Many o. the eommou
lAborers, miners and min operatives q
Great BFitaan live nss little better than the
Haas jass described.
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