The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-27
SHoDDY KYLE
Argues in Favor Of g European Stand
ard for American Wages Working
men-How Do You Like It?

When Bartlett Trip sent his famous
message to Grover Cleveland after the
election of Senator Kyle as United
States senator from South Dakota,
"Kyle is a good enough democrat for me-
be made no mistake i'm his diagnosis OF
the gentleman. His votes in the senate
and his speech here last night fully con-
firm his title to being an out and out
free trade democrat. In no case did he
refer TO populist doctrines saw q short
allusion at the close of his address to the
income tar and TO the silver question the
latter OF which he said was SO mixed up
and dependent upon the money relations
OF the other governments OF the world,
tnat ii could only be decided by inter
national arrangements; thus deserving
Bro. Loncks and the populist platform
to endorse the republican position on
the money question. Otherwise, his
speech was q defense OF democratic free
trade and protection on sugar through
out.
His speech was largely theoretical to
the end that the American people should
patronize European and manufactures
and labor TO the exclusion or injury or
American manufactures and labor and
consequently to the destroying OF q home
market for our agricultural products.
Where he did quote Statistics they were
so untruthful as to be entirely mislead-
ing, asserting that English laborers we're
receiving even higher wages and better
living than the laborers oe this country.
Let us see how far Nj. Kyle erred in
free trade conclusIons. W. take the
census reports Of Great Britain OF 1891.
and the census reports OF the United
States for 1890. The total number EN-
ployed in the manufacture OF textile
fabrics OF wool or worsted, cotton, silk,
fax and hemp in Great Britain was
1,460,933; in the United States 563,o35.
III these be true, it is simply ignorance
and folly to talk OF measuring swords in
these branches OF industry with Great
Britain. In the six towns OF Bradford,
Deeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, D~ewsbury,
and Battey, England, all within a radius
OF ten miles, there are 10000 persons
engaged In wooden and shoddy manufac-
ture, as many as In the states of New
York, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
New Jersey combined or OF Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts combined. La West
Riding OF Yorkshire alone there are 218,-
202 persons employed Ia the WOODEN and.
worsted manufacture, while In all the
states OF the Union there are just 2Ie,132
in this same industry. In these mills
In England, Robert Citizen, etatistician OF
the English Board Of Trade gives the
weekly wages for 1890 which we com
pare with the United States census OF
1890 for the same trade per week as fol-
lows:
Men-England, 3 5.6s; United States,
1887.
Women-England, 1922; United
States, 1894.
Children-England, s1.93; United
States, 1926.
These are actual cash figures received
by American operators In wooden and
worsted mills proper, while higher
amounts we're received i d the carpet and
hat industries. These latter were receiv-.
ing $500 and $3.50 annually.
The weekly earnings OF all classes or
workers in the United States, after de-
Quoting lost rime, holidays, etc, ayerag-
ed Tor men, 500; for women, 1914; for
children, s3.2A. .sThe president OF the
Bradford Labor Union, England, o year
or q ago, made the assertion before the
Royal Commission on Labor that the
average wages BE that district OF weavers
was O, or s2.16 per week. The accuracy
Of this statement wa questioned and .
committee of well known citizens APP
pointed 70 ascertain the real facts. AZ
tor . pasnstaking and extensive investi-
CATION they reported that FOR 1891 the
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