Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-16
WHAT HE SAW WHILE ABROAD.
Senator scott's Vivid Pictures of For
 eign Labor.

west Virginia, was back in Washing ton yesterday, gathering up the threads of his political work, says the Wash 1ngton Post His step was brisk and his manner spirited, bespeaking inn proved health as the result of his so- Journ across the Atlantic. About the f1rst thing he mentioned was that the Post had followed him constantly dur ing his absence, his secretary having forwarded it to him by every mail Your paper,"1 he declared, twas a most pleasant reminder of home, while l was so far away.
 ''One of the principal objects of my four months trip abroad was to per sonally look into the conditions of the fa'boring men of Europe" said the sen ator, answering a question on that sub Ject. By laborers, mean those who work with their hands. In this coUn- try we are laberers in one way or an- other. have always been a strong protectionist, and I returned from my foreign trip more than ever believer in the good effects of our tariff sys- tenn. think there can be no better slogan for the coming campaign than that enunciated by my friend Senator Hanna. when he said: Hands off
 eff the workingmen of this country could go abroad and get a look into the real conditions they would see what the tariff has done for them. During my trip I made it 8 point to get in touch with the workingmen themselves, and learned from them just the wages they were paid and how. they lived. The best-paid class of wortingmen I found in England, and even then there is no comparison between their condition and that of our own working people.
 '.In Athens, for instance, l found good marble cutters-men who were able to carve an image out of stone working 12 hours day and receiving an equivalent of 25 cents in our money An apprentice boy learning the trade of marble cutting is paid nine cents q day in our money for F hours work. The pay of common laborers is IS cents a day.
 Private soldiers in the army receive 3 cents a day in our money. The farm CTS and lalborers seldom, if ever, have meat to eat. Butter for instance is sold on the streets of Athens in little cakes about half the size of water cracker, and much thiner for cents cake There was no salt in it, and at was made from goats milk. The food of the workin gnran consists mainly Of black bread and olives in the place Of butter.
 "As to the cost of living in other Eu- ropean countries, the prices paid in Athens are fair example. Chickens are the cheapest kind of meat procur- able. A good one can be had for about 25 cents Eggs are 80 cents per dozen. I have just said how butter is sold. Meat is entirely out of the question ex- cept on great holidays, and this condl77 tfon concerning meat is not only true in Athens, but all over 1rope.
 "What did you observe in the land of the pyramids?'' was asked.
 ''In Egypt the greatest poverty ex- ists Private soldiers in the army there are paid one-half piastre, or about fl74 cents in our. money, a day; the lap2rer 2,Ite receives ? piastres a day. Brick and stone nasons are paid about so cents day. Black bread, dipped in little treacIe. made of I do not know what is the midday meal of the workingmen there, as well as in other places
 |Up along the Nile I found the na- lives lifting water up in buckets from point to point, for at least +seyenty-1fve feet. An American windmill could co the work of hundreds of these people, but it would be as much as a man life was worth to suggest it even, for by the bucket is the only way Inou- sands of these people live.
 .'In. Spain passed through some or the best farming country in that lana, and to show you how cheap labor is there, l. wil give you an illusTanon. All the railroad crossings are Jagged bv women and they receive 7 cents per day in our money for this work The rest of labor there is proportlonaUely cheap. In all these countries or. Ghe continent if the workingman can nave a small piece of cheese cut about as ffin as a knife blade, and about as long as your three fingers, he IS TOT tunate, indeed, and is the envy or all his companions" ..s
 E'How do you regard the Chamber lain tariff idea"
 "As T said before, found the best conditions existing in England,' said the senator, "but even there the ad- vanced leaders are beginning to find out something is wrong. MT Chamber lain has come to the front with his tariff idea. It may be years before 1t is adopted and think it will. He is ahead of the times there, but he sees the necessity for a tariff. I rode on the tops of busses with the buss driv- CTS, and I was with the workingman wherever could get in touch with him. The carriage driver who drove us from the railroad station to Warwick castle was fair illustration of an English workingman. He told me that he re- ceived salary of 12 shillings, or $3 a week for driving these coaches; 3 shil- lings and half of this amount was paid for rent, and out of the remain der he had. to clothe and feed himself and family of five children.
 Often in our own country we hear the acknowledgements that wages are higher here than abroad but that liv- ing there is so much cheaper. If the American workingrnan is willing to ] -I-4%