Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24
Showing How He Would
Plunge the Country
Into Utter Ruin
AND CAUSE DISASTER.
To the WorkinCmen by His
Policy Of Desolation and
False Issues.

ly as 1t applies to the workingmen. 1t
said
"Thore is only one country In Europe in
which the wages of labor are within a half
of what they are in this country. That Is
Great Britain. Wages in Germany, France,
Belgium and Switzerland are not one-thrd
Of what they are here. Those of Italy are
not one quarter.
A Great Wrong to American Labor.
Last year cheap foreign labor was inn
ported into the United States in the shape
of manufactured goods to the value Of
$500, $40, 76S This was great wrong to
American labor In the immense amount
of imports permitted by our insufficient
and defective tariff the labor Of women
employed in the Manchester cotton mills,
whose wages do not average 500 a year,
came into competition with the higher
priced labor of our southern and northern
cotton spinners
Fifteen Cents Day In Germany.
Munich is gallery and center Of art.
German women with as many as six chill
dren saw wood in its streets for Is cents
day May merciful God sink the United
States 10, 900 feet under the sea before the
hideous spectacle shall become an incident
of our civilization
Nearly 500, 900, 900 worth of the star
walton labor of Europe in the form of man
ufactured goods imported into this coun-
try last year That which came from Bel
GUM III bales and boxes represented the
wages of 22 cents a day for women and 43
cents for men, and the highest priced labor
in loose cargoes of Belgian steel and iron
represented wages less than so cents day
sGod Save America Such yagesi"
italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year,
in competition with American labor, at
prices that should fill sensitive souls with
horror and alarm the thoughtful for the
future of the human race. The pay in the
cotton factories of Naples is 90 cents day;
of tho Neapolitan marble and granite cut
tiers, from 40 to 80 cents a day, according
to skill; of coachman, 80 cents of women
in lace factories, 10 cents, and girls, Z
cents; of soldiers in the army, 81 u month.
OF all the workmen in the glass works Of
Italy only the skilled blowers receive as
high as 81 day, and laborers ON farms,
hoeing or making hay, from 10 to IS cents
day. working from sun to sun. God save
America from such wages!''
Continuing the picture The Sun gave
the following interesting figures:
- In the Swiss silk goods which came In
to our country last year in those $500, 000,-
600 of imports was the skilled labor of
men at Al cents II day and of women at 10
cents, both competing with the silk weav
ers of Paterson. New York, Philadelphia
and Cheney.
Tho Working People In Scotland.
"Glasgow, in Scotland, is the largest
steamship factory of the world, and it's
blast furnace owners and iron rollers howl
for free trade day and night. OF the fami
lies in that manufacturing Sodom Al 900
out of 100, 900 live in one room, and half
of the men and women in the city are out
of work. That one room for family of
father, mother daughters and sons tells
what wages are in Scotland and how they
drag humanity down into bestiality and
misery.
The Purchasing Power of ST.
at is undisputcd that the wages of the
American workmen are from 80 per cent
to 800 per cent greater than those of his
English fellows. The question then arises,
Is the purchasing power of a dollar in the
hands of an American workman more or
less than the purchasing power of tho
equivalent of u dollar in the hands of an
English workman?
"The answer is, 81 will buy more in the
United States of such things as the work
ingman uses than As. lad. will in Eng
land. Joseph ID. Weeks, in letter pub
lished in Triumphant Democracy, says;
1t (s1) will buy considerably more flour,
more meat, provisions, bacon, ham, yege-
tables, eggs, butter, cheese, farm products
of all kinds, tea, coffee, more oil, little
less sugar and in many parts of the coun-
try more fuel. AS to dry goods and cloth
ing it will buy more sheeting, shirting,
prints and things of this kind than can be
bought for the same money there.
The more carefully workingmen inyesti-
gate the problem the more thoroughly are
they convinced that their inability to get
employment is due to the brief reign of
free trade that has already afflicted them.
The Picture of Ruin.
That is the picture of the ruin thus far
wrought, yet it is mild, indeed, compared
with what the plans of Bryan would do
were he allowed to open the free trade and
free coinage throttle TO the extent he de-
sires.
Another picture of the ruin that prevails
in free trade countries is that made by the
eminent John Bright, who portrayed the
condition of Glasgow. But horrible as the
condition there was, it is that which free
trade would speedily bring here. He said:
"In the city of Glasgow alone Al, 900 out
of every 10O 900 live in homes having only
one room, and, further, nearly one-third of
the whole people dwell in homes Of only
one room, and more than two-thirds of the
people of Scotland dwell in homes of not
more than two rooms.
Poverty, Misery and CHASTITY Sorrow.
awe find poverty and misery What
does it mean, when all these families are
living in homes of one room, TO us who
have several rooms and all the comforts of
life? 1t means more than / can describe
and more than | viii attempt to enter into,
and as need begets need, so poverty and
misery boget poverty and misery. And so
IN all our great towns and not little
in our small towns there are misery and
helplessncss, much as / have described. In
fact, looking at the past, to me it is a mel
ancholy thing to look at. There is much