The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-10-22
Showing How He Would
Plunge the Country
Into Utter Ruin
And CAUSE DISASTER.
To the Workingmon by His
Policy of Desolation and
False Issues.

protection as against free trade quite plain
ly as it applies to the working;nen. 1t
said:
"There is only one country in Europe in
which the wages of labor arc within half
of what they are In this country. That is
Great Britain. Wages in Germany. France,
Belgium and Switzerland arc not one-third
of what they are hero. Those Of Italy are
not one-quarter.
A Great Wrong TO American Labor.
Last year cheap foreign labor was i'm
ported into the United States in the shape
of manufactured goods to the value of
5000, 3i9, 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 Il 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
tren saw wood in it's streets for Is cents
day. May u merciful God sink the United
hideous spectacle shall become an Incident
OF our civilization.
NEARLY 800, 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 in bales and boxes represented the
wages of 22 cents 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 80 cents day.
GOD Save America Such wages!"
''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 nce The pay in the
cotton factories of Naples is 80 cents day;
of the Neapolitan marble and granite cut
tiers, from 40 to 90 cents day, according
to skill; of coachman 30 cents; of women
in lace factories, 10 cents, and girls, Z
cents; of soldiers in the army, So a 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
a day, working from sun to sun. God save
America from such wagesp'
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,
900 of imports was the skilled labor Of
men at Al cents day and of women at 10
cents, both competing with the silk weav
ers of Paterson, New York, Philadelphia
and Cheney
The Working People In Scotland.
Glasgow, in Scotland, is the largest
steamship factory of the world, and its
blast furnace owners and iron rollers howl
for free trade day and night. Of the fami-
lies in that manufacturing Sodom 1000
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 81.
"It is undisputed that the wages of the
American workmen are from 80 per cent
to 800 per cent greater than those of his
Is the purchasing power of a dollar in the
hands of an American workman more or
less than the purchasing power of the
equivalent of dollar in the hands Of an
English workman
1.-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 d. Weeks, in letter pub.
lishod in Triumphant Democracy, says;
1T (S1) will buy considerably more flour,
more meat, provisions, bacon, ham, vege-
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 investi
gate the problem the more thoroughly are
they convinced that their inability to gel
employment is due to the brief reign oil
free trade that has already afflicted them
The Picture of Ruin.
That is tho picture of the ruin thus fal
wrought, yet it is mild, indeed, compared
with what the plans of Bryan would de-
were he allowed to open the free trade ant
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 TIT
condition of Glasgow. But, horrible as thu
condition there was, it 10 that which fre'
trade would speedily bring here. He said
"In the city of Glasgow alone Al 900 GU
of every 1O0,D00 live in homes having onl!
one room and, further, nearly one-third o
the whole people dwell in homes of onl,
one room, aud moro than two-thirds of chi
people Of Scotland dwell in homes of no
more than two rooms.
Poverty, Misery and CHASTITY Sorrow.
'we find poverty and misery Wha
does it mean. when all these families ar
living in homes of ono room, to US WHIT
have several rooms and all the comforts
life? It means more than can descrlD
and more than Twill attempt to enter into
and as need begets need, so poverty AM
misery beget poverty and misery. And s.
irxall our great towns and not litti
an our small towns there are misery ant
( Helplessness, much Us have described. II
be ~ looking ut the past, to me it is mel
1896, Ny thing to look at. There is muci
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