The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-06-16
VIVID PICTURES OF
FOREIGN LABOR.
THE MEN OF TOLL AMONG THE
GREENS.
Figures About the Prices OF Iheir
Commodities The Conditions IN
This Country Far SUPERIOR

lUuFE5 ADOAA INC FFfCNt
Commodities The Conditions IN
This Country Far Superior
Senator Scott. Of West Nireinia. who
recently returned from aboari, says
"One OF the principal objects OF my four
months trip abOard was To personally
look into the conditions vi the laboring
men of Europe liy labOrers. mean
those who work with their hands. la
This county we are ali lAbOrers IN one
way or another
In Athens. found good marble cut
tets-men who were able to carve an I'M
a,s,. ont of stone wOrhing twelve hours
a day and receiving an equivalent ol -
cents in our money. IN apprentice h"y
learning the trade Of marble cutting i
paid - cents per day in our money Tor
welye hours work The pay oI com
mon laborers il | : cents "A day. ffiVate
soldiers in the army receive j cents aday
in our money. The farmers and laborers
seldom. # ever, have meat 20 eat hut
ter for instauce. is sold on the streets oi
Athens in little cakes about hall the size
of u water cracker and much thlnner,
for = cents "A cake There was no salt IN
II. and il war made from goats milk.
The food oi the wOrklugmen consists
mainly Of black bread and olives in the
place OF butter.
As 10 the cost Of living in other Eu-
ropean countries the prices pad IN
Athens are y fair example. Chickens are
the cheapest kind oi meat procurahle
4 good one can be had for about 25ceni-
Eggs are 80 cents per dozen. ] nave Just
said how butter is sold. Meat IL entirely
ont of the question eNr-pt on great hnil-
da,s. and this condition concerning
mrat j. not only true In Athens but all
over Europe.
In Egypt the greatest poverty exists
Private soldiers in the army th're are
p.id q. piastre. or about ~, cents ia our
money. a da,: the lab ir'r receives
piastres dav Brick aud stone mhTons
are paid about 90 cents day. BlhcA
bread. dipped in a little treacie. made OF
donot know what. is the midday meal
OF the working men there, n well ~ in
other places.
lin along the Nile found the natives
lifting water up IN buckets from point 10
uoint. f,r at least seventy five let hn
American windmill could do the WORK OF
hundre's Is OF these people. but II "ou!h Dr
as much a. q man 4 life was worth 10
suggest IL even Tor by the bucket Il the
only WAY thousands Oi these people live.
In Spain | passed through some oi
the best farming country 10 that iaha'
and 10 show you how cheap labor j.
there. ! will give YOU an illustration. All
the railroad crossings are Il legged by
women and they receive = cents per day
ia our money for this work. The rest oi
labor there il propOrtionGtelg cheap. In
All these countries Oi the continent u the
workingman can have a small piece oi
cheese cut about ~ thin a. knife blade
and about ~ long ~ your three hhgerT.
he il fortunate. indeed and i the envy oi
all his companions
sTANltAKp OF orr MIDDLE CLASSES.
"Often. in our own country we hear
the acknowledgment that wages are
higher here than abroad. but that hving
there j. 80 much cheaper. II the Amer
can workingman is willing to live az the
English wcrkingman does. or the other
Continental workingm An, he can live
cheaper than any of them, but he VIII
not do it, And | 90 not blame hun.
The average condition of the working.
man in Americn is better than that oi
the middle Glasses OF the Continent. II II
unheard Of for workinginan in IA Tor
eign country to own piano or an or
Van. or any other such article, which IN
this country would he recognized as al
most necessity.
Oar country il prosperous, and De
lieve that it is due to our tariff system.
think az said before, that one of the best
things that could happen in the interests
of the workingmen would be for com
mittee to visit the foreign countries and
report on what they find there.