The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-18
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For its running expenses, interest on
its debt, sinking fund and other pur-
poses New Y ork city disburses annually
nearly $50, 900, 600. On it's pay rolls,
from mayor, school, teak hers and police
men to street cleaners, are all army of
70, 900 persons. All this money is dis
bursed, all this army is controlled, by
the party that is in power politically.
This is Tammany, a political party to
ltself The hand that, holds the purse
strings is, the power that rules the
world The fact that for more than 30
years Tammany has had control Of New
Works purse strings shows better than
anything else. the power of that vast
Organization.
1t is held together by patronage If q
labor organization could hang together
as Tammany has done, it could. move
the pillars OF society. It could and
would hold together il getting $89, 00O,-
900 year depended On it: ':.@.'
There is one salary Of $25, 900. Fiji
teen other persons get SIS, 900 a year
each. The police department. alone
employs about 4, 600 men. Tammany
votes itself good salaries, Its police jus
:tices get So, 600 a year, which. is more
than majority Of the governors of. the
states get. Tammany has, too, an ami
able way Of making police justices out
of saloon Keepers, which it is to be:
hoped has not been followed as an ex-
ample by many others Of, those cities
whom New York looks down on SO com.
placently. "
In different industries different
foods preponderate. The textile work
:er allows on an average IS pounds of
meat per annum for every 100 units
of consumption In other words, the
husband will get about one-quarter
pound Of meat a day throughout a
year, and his wife and children less
in the proportions we have stated,
while steel workers indulge in ia
pounds for every 100 units. On the
other hand, the weaver consumes
more -four than the steel worker
:275 pounds per 100 units instead of
s2O9 pounds. He also takes about z
pounds Of sugar more per. 100 units
and a dozen more eggs; Of butter,
lard and tea both take about the
Same, though both in tea and coffee
the weaver a little exceeds the other.
That is, in the calling which demands
the greater muscular exertion, a
greater amount of heterogeneous food
is required: All:workers in Britain
are heavy consumers Of meat, as COM
pared with those Of the continent.
Even in the iron industry the Ger
man with 961 pounds per 100 units is
little more extravagant than. the Eng
ish weaver, while the F'renchman
consumes only 57a pounds, and the
Belgian $50 pounds.
: Or the other hand, the latter con-
sumo more -four and eggs, more than
twice as much Of each. Their con-
sumption, Of coffee, too, is .large-14
pounds and 10 pounds respectively to
the Englishman's<3b pounds; but, on
the other hand, tea does not appear
in their accounts: It is almost: need
less to say that these quantities are
all exceeded in America. The Illinois
iron worker manages to consume 1913
pounds Of meat per 100 units, and
though this is excessive, we find 2o65
pounds put down ais the average of
Pennsylvania, 1879 pounds for Ohio,
1871 pounds for West Virginia and
155 pounds for Tennessee. The con:
sumption Of flour stands about ESQ
pounds for che states in general,
though greedy Illinois has $50
pounds, and sugar, butter and eggs
: are everywhere more lavishly used
= than in Europe: There, as here,
: however, wefnd workers in the iron
. and steel Industries more self induI
gent than those of other trades, and
the butchers bills of the weaver can
not compare with those of the stee.
worker, though they are still fa1
above the expenditure Of even The
most extravaganza worker Of Europe
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