The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-18
NOTES ON WAGES.

The following extracts are from the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, Republic
can protectionfst organ. The brief com
ments are ours:
A German artisans breakfast con-
sists of coffee and bread: his dinner,
soup made of water, slices of bread.
slices of onion and little butter, meat
once or twice a week; soup, cheese,
potatoes and bread, with sausage and
beer.
Germany is a country protected" by
a high tariff
In many parts of Germany the hard
est out door work falls to the lot of
women. They plow and spade the fields
follow the coal carts through the cities
and put the coal in the cellars while
the male driver sits on the wagon, and
drives the milk wagons into the towns,
d woman and a dog generally making
a team for the milk cart.
The laboring ladies have the full ben
eft of that part of the profits of a pro-
tective tariff that fall to the lot of
working people.
The wages of female servants in
Prussia range from S14.2S to ST. 40 per
year; of males, $3.50 to $500
The average weekly wages paid to
female la,borers of all classes in Ger
many is $217
A German female farm hand, en-
ployed in hoeing the fields, receives
u cents to II cents a day. with
schnapps at 8 O'clock, potatoes and
coffee at noon and black bread and
beer at 4.
Remember, these are the high wages
that are the result of protection in
Germany.
A native painter in India earns 40
cents a day.
A weaver in Germany receives so
cents a day.
Railroad clerks in Germany are paid
an average of 50 cents day.
German editors receive an average
of $6.71 salary per week; proof-readers,
1922; compositors, 1896; the devil gets
SLAP.
The German press ought to be lively
and spirited in devotion to the glorious
effects of a protective tariff.
The wages of farm laborers in Eng
land in 1850 were 9 shillings a week.
dates, the wages were respectively 8
and u shillings.
England is what is called free trade
country. you know
English laborers of all kinds are now
paid over twice as much as they were
a century ago.
A century ago England "fourished
under protection" now it has a tar
if for revenue only"
The truth is, wages of most kinds
have increased in the United States.
in England and in Germany during the
past half century. This is not due
simply to protective tariff, because
the increase in England under the efree
trade" system has been greater than
in Germany under protection" The
determined stand taken by working
people. their organization for the main
tenance Of their rights, and the i'm
provements as to skill and the produc-
ton Of better classes Of articles for
the market, have contributed to the
change. But there is destituion in all
these countries and that is not to be
change. But there is restitution in all
trade.
Any one who has travelled among the
agricultural classes in Great Britain
and has also mingled with the arti-
sans and laborers in the manufacture
ing districts, and is familiar with their
condition from thirty to fifty years
ago and that of the present period.
knows beyond all question that the
improvement is very great, indeed re-
markable- Under protection the con-
dition Of the working classes was this:
Wages were very low. food. particu-
larly bread, was high. Under the