The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-28

/ great TO be ignored During President
Harrison's administration Secretary
Rusk issued a document entitled
Wages of Farm Labor in the United
States 1report No. 4, year 1892, page
/ l6 of this report contains a table show
/ ing that in 1892 the average wages for
farm labor (without hoard) was $3.50
per month in South Carolina, $3.50 in
North Carolina, $3.50 in Georgia and
| $13.T5 in Alabama, while in California
I the wages paid were $3.50 and in the
state of Washington $3.50, the average
I for all the states for that year being
$3.50. For farm labor with board, the
wages varied from $40 to SIS, and
averaged 'S12.54.
The report says that white farm
labor in the United States received $2S2
per annum; that the same labor re-
ceived about $3.50 in Great Britain and
$50 in Germany. / refer to this report
because it was issued by Republican
authority and shows that under the
operation of the same financial system
and the same tariff system farm labor
received three times as much In one
part of the union as il did in another
part. When ii is remembered that the
wages paid in each state were ascer-
tanned by averages, it will be seen that
the difference between the best paid
labor and the poorest paid labor IS still
greater. The report also shows that IN
the United States Caucasian farm
labor receives more than three times
as much as the same labor receives in
Germany, although both countries have
a gold standard and a protective tariff
Between 1916 and 1894 England had
gold standard and the United States
had double standard, with silver as
the money in common use. and yet
laboring men were better off here than
in England. Turkey is one of the
gold standard nations. and Japan, until
recently, coined silver at a ratio al
most identical with. ours, and yet the
progress of Japan was so great that
Mr. Cleveland commented upon 1t in
message during his second term The
gold standard advocate who would
consider it unfair to compare Japan
and Turkey does not hesitate to blame
silver for the low wages of the poems
of Mexico.
In all the leading cities Of Mexico
can be found people from the United
States. England, Germany and France
all drawn from gold standard coun-
tries by the advantages offered IN
Mexico. Few have gone from the
United States to Canada. where they
have the gold standard and speak the
English language. but in Mexico. where
an American citizen is compelled 10
learn an entirely new language there
are already several American colonies,
and the number is constantly increas-
ing Some are in business themselves,
some working for wages, and they stay
there although they are at liberty TO
return whenever they see an opportun-
ity to better their condition in the
IT-.ited States.
TWelfth.-Real estate is rising in
Mexico. Public and private improve
ments are in progress. Guadaia1ara,
one of the largest cities of the repub-
lie and SURPASSED by none in beauty,
has recently decided to put in COM
plete system of sewerage and water
works The work of constructing the
sewers was let to q New Jersey con
tractor last month. Monterey has re-
Gently laid considerable brick pave
rnent and the capital has nearly COM
pleted a sewerage tunnel through a
mountain range. Electricity is TAX
ing the place of the old-time street IAN
tern, the shoe is gradually supoiaAt-
ing the sandal and the coat is winning
against the serape.
1t would be unfair to give to Mexico
financial policy credit for all the pro-
gress which the country has made IN
the last 25 years. Her government and
her government officials have contrib
uted much to her development by CIV
ing security to life, protection TO prop
erty and stimulus 10 education. II the
advocates o. TIE kolQ 0lel-hetetAN ----'-@N
that the financial system has been a
hindrance and that she has gone for
ward not because of it. but in spite OF
it, l reply that my observation, as
well as nv reason, leads me to be-
lieve that the use of silver has bee-a
of material advantage to Mexico, and
l an more than ever convinced that
the best interests of our own people
demand the immediate restoration OF
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio Of
16 to l. without waiting for the aid or
consent OF anv other nation.
Mexico is not strong enough to main
tain the parity between the metals,
but the people of the United States
are. Mexico has, by the use of silver,
avoided the fall in prices, but has suf-
fered to a certain extent from the. fiuc-
tuations in exchange. By opening our
minis to the free coinage of silver we
too shall escape from falling prices.
and. by maintaining the parity We
shall. in addition. avoid fluctuations in
exchange. W. j. Blk AN
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