Evening journal., 1894-04-12
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Rent and wages.

| thAt lhe percentage OF income palu out
for rent is between twenty and twenty.
FIVE per cent my idea is that that fact
is one Of the great est condemnations Of
the policy Of protection, which, while
protecting the capitalist and manufact
urer fails to protect the worldngman
against the monopoly Of capital In any
direction; but leaves him the
subject Of all kinds OF exactions
at the hands OF capitalists, while
reducing his wages by importation Of
Huns, Poles, Italians and others-until
| 81 for day laborers and $40 TO $l2 per
week for mechanics, are now held to be
the standard under the most favorable
conditions. IL protection is 30 good a
thing, and the manufacturer is saved
from competition by our taxation on all
we eat and wear In his capital, which Is
money, why not protect the workman In
his capital which Is labor2 Instead,
what do we sect All the cities are over
run with these foreigners, who are
rapidly displacing the negro as the pivotal
power In politics.
Each number OF the daily papers
bristles with items of which the fre
quency of foreign names is the one
particular feature. Notably Is an item
to-day In your morning contemporary
which narrates a theft OF $500, Il won
der II there is an American puddler OF
blacksmith in the city having that sum
to-day by one Groebowsk, a puddler,
working at the Diamond State mill from
one Zelwitis. a blacksmith working at
the jackson and Sharp Companys shop;
the latter having been in this country
four years and the former three weeks
both in employments controlled by
staunch advocates Of protection Of
American labor
Why are they employed2 Because of
their willingness to work for anything
offered and live on the cheapest kind Of
| food but each displacing an American
resident regardless Of the fact that he
must still pay twenty 20 twenty-five per
cont Of his passed-away rate Of wages IN
rental
This is only sample instance coming
to the surface by accident, for it will be
found on inspection that all Of our pro
tected manufactures of Wilmington,
Edge Moor, DuPonts, Riddles, etc, are at
least quarter filled with imported Dagoes
Of some kind who work at any wages
i offered while our workmen are left to
starve OF accept the same conditions, and
finally settle down into the same cir
cumstances.
Your contemporary, in that connection,
also says, "ln this country the humblest
mechanic or lsborer may live next door to
a man worth thousands and thousands OF
dollars. They may live on the best
paved Streets and they may live in the
most healthy part Of a city Is this
true, TO any great extent2 Is not this
city. as all others here, rapidly becoming
divided into sections with the various
designations Of aristocratic, workingmeu's 8
etc the better known here as the East
Side southwest section, Forty Acres,
over Eleventh end Third streets bridges
etc where the land is mostly made by
filling In, marshy, i'll drained. IN paved OF
distant from markets. Then comes
Hedgeville, the Noodles. etc to
which our coiored protectionist work
ingmen are practically restricted by
their capitalistic co voters2 While. on
the other side, who has not noticed the
exclusive sniff Of the West Slider "ou
the hill" not in the frequently flooded
] valleys between where the hills are
> dotted with tanneries when these other
sections are mentioned, where her papa's
worklngmen reside paying twenty tC
twenty five per cent. Of their incoms fol-
rent alone. b.
- Wilmington, Del, April IL
The above letter calls attention e
a robbery which revealed the fact,
D that one workingman lately i'm
ported had $500, which another work
ingman, who has beon here only thre,
weeks, stole. Both Of these American
e workingmen" are employed by protection
bosses at time when one Of the
protectors Of American industry
weeps for fear that grass will
grow In the streets Of Wilmington
while Mr.. Cleveland is President Oh
Jobl were those tears sincere or onl'
{ salty similacrumsY Crumbs which hav
. fallen from rich mems tables ever sine
= the rich man robbed widows and orphans
n and the poor man suffered from the sore
L which the kindlier dogs came to lick
s Gentlemen, by my faith, you protection
/ lists do protect too much. IL is impossibl
J. for you to be as benevolent and charit
d able as you profess to be- Il is no
10 human TO be so good In all other thing
2 you are human, very selhshly, radicall
J. notoriously human. To do for the work
10 ingmen what yod propose to do. woul
ie argue that you, of the protection faith
n were divine. In other respects yoa ar
ie not divine There is nothing that is no
almost rioiously human in the manner Il
which wages are arranged aud paid 2,
ie the shops Of the Jackson and Sharp Com
~ pauy aud the Diamond State Iron Com
y pany referred to in the letter we printe
to-day. oh. job Oh, Georgel- EDIroR