The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-01-19
rats Want Foreign Made Goods

Another complaint" the speaker
said, which the Democratic party is
constantly making against Republi-
can policies and Republican prosper
ity is that the people OF this country
are forced to pay much higher price
here for articles comprising the nee
essaries of life than they would the
same articles in foreign countries.
They point to this as a great injus-
tice against our people, and indeed
they denounce it as robbery, and they
say that this robbery is brought about
by the Republican tariff wall, and
therefore they declare that their
greatest desire is to tear down this
wall, so that we can buy manufac-
tured articles and all kinds of goods
abroad. =
The Watch Illustration.
I'm nearly every campaign they
take certain articles which they use
as object lessons. In the last cam
paign, one Of the object lessons that
nearly every Democratic speaker used
from one ocean to the other was to
hold up watch and say that this
watch could be bought for two dol
lars in Europe, while here it cost
three dollars. Then they would ask
who got that extra dollar which We
were forced to pay here, and they
would charge that it went into the
pocket of great Republican trust.
Sc, hot
Democratic friends never tell the yot-
ers the fact that it takes more labor
in Europe to buy that watch than it
does here. In Europe, laborer of g.
certain class, working for fifty cents
day, would be required to work
four days to buy that watch for two
dollars. That same laborer in this
country would receive, at least, one
dollar and half a day. Therefore,
in this country, the laborer doing the
same kind of work could work two
days and buy the same watch, paying
for it three dollars.
Conditions Here and Abroad.
'The fact is that laborer in this
country, whether working in the
mines or in the cotton factories or in
the fields, can buy with each days Ia
bor more of the necessaries of life
than the people in the old countries,
employed in exactly the same trade.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor,
spent whole summer abroad in the
year 1909, studying the conditions of
the laboring people in each country
in Europe and comparing their wages
and conditions with similar labor en-
ployed in this country. He made an
official report Of his Investigations,
which was published in the American
Federationist in January, 1910: In
discussing conditions in Great Bri-
tain, Mr.. Gompers said:
In the United Kingdom the poor
dress in much the same clothing sum-
mer and winter, the large proportion
Of the people in shabby clothes in the
streets of Dublin, Manchester or Lon
don giving an impression to the
American observer of prevalent
poverty
The housing of the wage-work-
ers of the various European countries
as compared with that of the same
class in America would, in order to
bring out the full truth, require a
long and faithful study
The wage-earner with them is re-
garded as permanently a rent-payer
an animal in a stall in a five, six
or seven-story stable. No; not one
animal in stall-not so good as that
whole families or herd of dodgers
live in cne of the stalls. The doub.
ling up of families of relatives, the
keeping Of dodgers, the hiring of q
small apartment by several young
persons, such devices for distribution
among many persons of the burdens
of rent must be general In cities
where apartments are made the land.
lords investment and few small