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EDITOR Mo. VALLEY Times
In my last promised 10 treat, in
my next, of industrial Exp.nion' as
rxpounded by the Hon. Charles Emory
smith, Post muster General.
After treating of the marvellous
growth of wealth in the United States.
ne treats of the equally marvellous
growth of American manufacturing
industries, and here let US quote his
article.
american genius and invention and
adaptability have given our Ameri
can industries q completeness and per-
lfection of mechanical equipment.
which greatly multiply their produc-
tive power. A single broad fact dem
,nstrates the superiority. In Europe
5000 600 operatives and artisans were
employed in 1895 in producing the
annual aggregate of manufactured
articles valued at seventeen Thousand
million dollars or $3.50 piece. In the
United States at the same time
100000 operatives produced goods
worth ten Thousand millions, or about
81 ,GR6 q piece, OF more than four times
AS much rs an operative in Europe"
Now, Mr.. Editor. taking the gentle
mans figures as correct, (and they are
certainly true for they are distributed
AS free literature from the press bur
eau of the republican campaign COM
mitte+), q question is certainly perth
nent.
II one operative in America can
mannfacture goods valued at more
than four times as much as his Eur
opesn brother, then how in the neme
of common sense is it possible for the
European to compete with American
labor even in the markets of their own
oountryP For If one American can
place on the market $l,G8B worth OF
goods as the result of one years work,
while the European eau only meet him
with $3.50 worth, 1t seems that the
European would be- at great disad-
vantage, and If such is the case how
can the "pauper labor Of Europe" CON-
pete with the lsb9F of America?
But we are told that the European
laborer is so poorly paid. Granted
that they are poorly paid at the above
ratio, for every dollar paid TO Ameri-
can Labor, that of Europe would re-
ceive but twenty three cents. A ratio
entirely disproportionate to the wsges
actually paid.
In comparing wages paid to Ameri-
can and to European labor our repuO-
licsn friends have always quoted daily
wages in order to show the necessity
for the protection of home industry
against European competition, and
this is the first instance on record
where they have ever admitted the
difference in ability. and whenever q
democrat in times past would sAvanee
such q statement it was resented as an
insult to European Intelligence.
1 We find American-made goods all
oyer the world, composing with the
apauper- made" goods OF Europe, whlle
these same goods must needs be pro-
tected at home lest perehance these
same pauper goods will come here and
under sell the home made article in
our own markets.
Protection to home industry has fol
years been the rallying cry Of the re.
publican party and now IN this year OF
prosperity" 1850, when they are SC
busily engaged in protecting national
honor and territorial expansion, they
must needs tell US that one American
can and does earn for his employer az
much as four and one-half Europeans
earn for theirs. But with their char
acteristic forgetfnl}ness they do not tel
us that the American wage Garner gets
less wages than two Of big Eqropea.Ha