Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — Page 8

TARIFF.

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this 32 per cent? American labor’ How stands the ac jonnt, then? Labor receives "he benefit of 10 per cent and jays back to the manufacture or what it consumes, not ony the 10 per cent., but 32 per ;ent. in addition. No manuacturer can show where ie paid to labor one-half he protection given him. they have been loud n their professions of love for he laboring men, they have, n many instances, reduced heir wages below the prices jaid in Europe. The Philadeljhia Record of a recent date ontainedthe following: ‘General William Lilly, of the. Leligh.informs a Chicago hew«laper that he is for Blame, jut that he and the rest ot iis party in Pennsylvania will upport any candidate who is rnposed to the leveling down )f our woi king classes to the evel of the poor classes of Continental Europe.” The jrofound sympathy of General Lilly for our ‘’working •lasses” will noi be questioned but he need not go out <ide of his valley to contemjlate the position of the paujer labor of Europe. If lie ias not witnessed it lnmselt ie will find a description of it n the same number of the >ress which contains the inerview from which we quote. A corresdondent writes: Laborers at the mines are eaid as low as sixty cents a lay for ten hours work; some ret seventy cents, and others ;ighty and ninty cents, but he average is about seventy >ne cents. * * * Strange to ;ay, this labor wliich receives ixt sent- a day and lives on joiled potatoes molasses and mead, is very high protected, ter every ton of oar dug out >f the ground the American aborer is supposed to receive eventy-five cents a day hrough the tariff, besides the >ay for his labor, to protect dm from the half starved lajor of Continental Europe, vfow, as he digs about a ton a lay, and gets sixty cents, .vhat has become of his sev-enty-five cents worth of promotion?” By the census of 870 the laborers engaged in aakmg pig-iron numbered altogether 27,554, and their vages amounted $12,400,000. the capital employed was reurned at $56,100,000- The luty on pig iron at the time vas nine dollars per ton. The trice of iron in this country •,ompared with that inported, liowed that those engaged in his (industry took the full )enent of the protection. The jroduce of the home manuacturers was 2,000,000 tons, on vhicli the tariff amounted to 518,000,000, or $5,600,000 more han was paid for labor. In >ther words the tariff paid to he men engaged in this inlustry equalled to the whole imount paid out to them for abor, and left a surplus of 55,600,000. In 1880 the capital jmployed the manufacture of vool hats was £3,615,830, and he number of persons employed 5,470. The total amount <f wages paid during the year yas $2,893,215, and the amount 4 materials used was $4,516,74, while the total product vas $§,516,596- allowing six per ent. interest on the capital uvested, making $216,949, hese manufactures made a let profit during the year of 1,620,658. After paying inerest on the investment, the -roduct of each hand emtloyed was $624.10; of this sum 327.82 went to the laborer, nd £296.28 went to the manuacturer. The laborer receivdof his work but little over alf, while the manufaturer jok the remainder. What mount of the $296.28 pocketdby the manufacturer was rotection? The tariff on 00l hats, upon an average, /ai and is, seventy per cent, ad yet we see the manufaclrer taking from the laborer marly 100 per cent of his /agesIn the manufacture of wors 3d good the capital employed i 1880 was *20.374,013, and ie number of hands 18,803. he amount of wages paid □ring the year was *5,683,027, nd m* amount of material -ted $22,013,628. Adding six er cent interest on capital ivefted, ?1,222,442, and we ave a total expenditure for ibor, material and interest, . luring the year, of *27,919.086, •' V.N *. • d * *

leaving a net profit to the manufacturers of *4,630,856. The droduct of tlie labor of each hand, after paying interest. etc. was *5484>2, of which the laborer gets $302.24, while the manufacturer takes the balance, "246.28. The tariff upon worsted goods avereged about 90 per cent., but little more than the per cent, of wages retained by the manufacturer.

Mr. Thomas G. Sherman, in an address before the tariff reform meeting, held at Detroit in June, 1883, said: “According to the returns published by Mr. Secretary Frelinghuysen, the average annual of'all men, women and children employed in English cotton mills are *251, they working only fifty six hours h week. The annual average wages of the same class of work people in our American cotton mills were, in 1880, only s244—they working an average of at least six ty five hours a week. As their wages was reduced 20 per cent, long ago si nee 1880, the result is that during the last year, the cotton operatives in America have been working sixty-five hours a week for *195 a year, while the cotton operatives in England have been working only fif-ty-six bou] s a week for *251 a year. Thus, in one of the largest and most highly protected manufacturers in this country, the rate of wages is 22 per cent, lower than in England; the hours of labor are 18.> per cent, longer, and the cost of living 20 per cent, more.

Mr. Giles B. Stebbins, in a recent work, ’Tlie American Protectionist’ Manual,” says: “Robert P. Porter, late a member of the tariff commission writes from Leeds, England, a great center of woolen mill, to tlie New York Tribune, under date of January 24,1883, and gives a list of the wages of twenty grades of operatives in those mills as computed from their account books. * * * The English wag 8 range from §7.50 to $2.50 (i -r boys.)” Mr. Porter is an extreme protectionist, and L s figures are as partial as i could consistently make th ,a. But let us compare these figures with the wages paid to employeys in the same labor in this country in 1880. There was employed in the manufacture of woolen goods during the year, 86,504, and the total amount of wages and salaries paid was §25,836,392, an average of §298,44 paid to each hand. Allowing higher wages for those who were under salaries, it is but fair to say that the wages of those ranking as laborers did not exceed 90 cents a day. As to the wages of boys in this country, employed in manufacturing establishments, the public journal recenily contained the following item:

BLACKBTONii, Mass., Feb. 28. "Thirty bock-boys, at the factory yestenluy, on acoant ofthe redaction of wages from forty five to thirty-elgLt< Genus i erday, etraek. Their action caused the shutting down ot the whole machinery, throwing five 1 undred operatives out of employment.’ Duriug the discussion ofthe knit uood bill in Congress, 1882, Mr. Carlisle In speaking of the wages paid to operatives in this industry said: "At Cincinnati, th re were 421 hands employed, and the total wages paid amounted ti $56,425, being $172.70 per year, er $3.32 per week, which is only 55V4 cents p er day: at Chicago the number ofhandß was22s, and the wages paid amounted to stlo,9tifl, being $127.17 for the year or $2.45 perweek, which was 41 cents per day ; at Detroit the number of hands was 118, aud the wages stl,Mo, which was an average of 110.10 to each hanf for the year, That is $2,18 per week or 85&cent per pay. It is donbtfhl whether Enl sh Manufacturers arc not paying, in most industries, better wages than are paid in tthis countiy. It is** singular fact that in all the leading industries uot protected the wag-.s of operatives are higher than in those enjoying the greatest protection. Take the industries of railroading, agriculture, foundries and machine shops, hardware and carpentering, which paid a daily qverage of $1.55. $1.27 $1.51, sl.ll and sl-61, wad contrast them with the five indastries of cotton, silk wooled kuit. goods, iron steei and Iron mining which enjoyed the greatest protection. Th'- average daily wages paid the operatives of these industries daring the same year was 81 cents, $1, 17 cents' sl.Bl and sl. The protection given to the latter anring the year, ranged lrotn 45 to 90- per ce> t' aud yet the wages of operatives in the former were 50 per cent, higher Mr, Frank Gessner, secretary of the wlndonglas« workers’ branch of tho Kni hts of Lahor at Pittsburg, in January, said; "Last year tne average monthly wages paid in Belgium were SB6-87. They have been in New Jersey as low as s6l, and if the present reduction of wages ie accepted iu Pennsylvania the men here will earn about S4O per month. About flirty men bard returned to Belgium in the last few mouth u der guarantees from the govsrnraeet that their wages should be higher than they are here, i hey can actually make hfgner cash wages today In Belgium, in the glass Industry than tli. v can here with a protect vc tiiriil of 4f per cen * Addition pioois could he furnished that the firuiended Interest o. maiiuta tales Am rican abor is hypocritical and mercenary. They care nothing fer the benefi of anyone except themselves. They employ st the lowest wages and oprrate their mills with the cheapest* labor. Where boys will answer they will uot have men; where women ane girls can be used, at reduced compensation, men, aid even boys, may beg iu vain for work. Now and then one may be found with a generous and warm heart, but as acl »a they are cold, selflsh and ext cting. Motry-mak-ing is iheir business, and they calculate their profits and losses with an interest and anxiety that are seldom displayed by any other -class. They have, with’ their contests In labori lc the las: few years, given some proofs of their real sentiments and feelings and some evidences of theirjrifection for Amer can labor. A lew years ago the manufacturers of lumber in Michigan reduced tne wages of their hands, notwithstanding ‘.hey were protected to the ex tent of $3 per thoramd fe< t. Their laborers

would not submit to a reduction, and a strike was mane. The mauatactan* at occe went over to Canada and Imported from the lumber regioas of that Dominion the very labor which they were protected against to aupply the place- of the strikers.

Mr. ltankiu the head of ihc Kplgfcts of Labor organized in the Pittsburg district, in antwer to an inquiry from a Sew York Herald rep rter, said: -Some years ::go a cutlery mill was start ed here, with several hundred imported English operatives. The manufacturers n. d all the protection they wanted, anti imported their labor besides |lt mouths, however, before they proposed to Cat down wages, and the eu.- , ployes struck, and what did these protected proSrietors do bnt go and get about four hand ed hinamen to flllihe r places." Hon. W. P. Fishback. a leading Republican of Indiana, in an open letter to Hon S. J. Pecle, member qf Congrass from the Indianapolis district, last Jnlv, said: ‘The Fourth of Jttlk dispatches from the vlllege Suncook, X. H , weie edifying. The owners of certain infant industries in the rillege of Sunhook have recently imported by the Inman line # steamers several hundred Swedes, who are described In the dispatch as paupers and jai! birds. These ‘paupers and jail oirds’ were brought to this coin try to take the place of American workmen, for whose protection certain ,awe have been enacted. Thesese ‘paupers and jail birds’, snltln? the air of the Fourth of July breeses and not content wi»h tne very low wages paid them by the owners of the highly p-otected Industrie-, began tofleave the villege otonucook, turning their laces westward: when lo! their tasK-masters sloaed them, kept them imprisoned, and drove them to their work as black men wore driven to lo the cane aud cotton fields before the war. * * * Another interesting fact has come to light. The town of Liverpool. 0., is the seat of a great crocke y ware iudnstty. By the recent law you raised the tariff on the ar‘icles made there. Tbe increase was demanded and "raided-iu behalf of American workmen. The owner ofthe crockery industry have adopted a method of dealing with their dissatisfied employes which is said to workwell.Tncir laborers are required to rent tenements owned by the monopoly, which are occupied as so g as the workmen remain in the employ of their propri tors. When tne workmen ask for higher wages they are promptly ejected from the tenements to make room for chei-per .workman. So, when it was settled that the tariff would be increased, the patriotic owners of the protected industry * discharged their American workmen, drove them from their homes, and supplied their places with cheap foreign labors imported for that purpose." Wlion the eleven associates purchased of Bessemer *he exclusive right to use his new process for making stoele, by which the same was made, as cheaply as iron, they immediately secured by some infillenc«, a protection of 100 per cent , for it was said, the benefit of American labor. In addition to this they secured the tucorporati n of a provision m the pacific Railroad charters that the same should bj constructed with raiis of American manufacture This, too, it was said, was to give employment to American labot. But no sooner had the syndicate commenced tions than they iouud tliey could import pig iron and old rails cheaper han they could purchase them at home; so they rielibeately turned their hacks an their fe low American iron miners aud pig metal smelters, and proceeded to take advantage of the pauper labor of Europe by importing their iron. During the construction of some of ti.e roads. American labor upon the Pacific slope, was entire y supplanted by cheap Chiueoe labor. It is not sought by the recitatiwn of these tacts to array labor against capital, but simply to tear the mask of hypocrisy from the faces us these monopolists, and revea 1 to American working men their true leatures and natural characters. It certainly requires no argument to convince laboring men that capit 1 purchases labpr the same as any other 'ouimo-" dity, at as low paices as possible. D es any laboring man know ol an instance \vh re the wages of A merlcan laborers were raised above the price* paid in other trades-, by manufactures, or. Bccon t of the tariff: fur. Brassy well says: "There i* a maximum limit above which wages can not rise, aud a mimimum b low which they can not fall The minimum is determined by the coat of living arco-ding to the standard adopted by the people." That American labor has reached the minimum there can be but little do bt. In fact, it is usurious question bother our wonting men will be abje, at present, prices, long to support themselves and their families according to the present standard oi living.

Fashion-Hints from Peterson’s Magazine for August.

Gathered bodices are very popular, especially for slender persona; for them, th ■ gathers may extend from the shouMior to the waist; for stouter persons, there should be but few gathers at t e waist, aud none from the shoulder*;. —Paterson’s Mag aZINK. Many new dresses have the sleevof a different material from the bodice. but always of a mateiial which is employed somewhere on the drsss, either for the tunic or the trimming. —Paieksos’s Magazine Bonnets show a decided c' ange at last. They are both high and narrow. From ajfront view/scarcely any sides can be seen so closely are they pressed in against the head; but the trim* mlnge are quite high.— Paterson’s Magazine . Shot silks, figured with small velvet spots or flowers, are a good deal worn.—Paris letter in Peterson’s Magazine. Tarletane for evening dresses is again becoming fashionable.—Paris letter in Peterson’s Magazine. In overskirts, the straight full folds,falling to ihe hem at the back, and combined with short panierdranerits at the sides, are the most popular.—Paris letter in Peterson’s Magazine.

Peterson’s Magazine for August leads of with a capital steel-engrav-ing, “Meetin’s Out,” from tho original picture by E. L- Henry; cne of the very best things we have evej seen, and thoroughly American. The tales, sketches etc., etc., are all ori<* ginal, and usually good. “Some Creole Blossoms” is a story of re* markable originality and power. “Lord Avalon” goes on spiritedly, and so doe<* tbe novelet by Mrs. Stephens. We have often said that every lady of rest ement should take this magazine, and we now repeat tbe advlee, The price is hut two dollars a yew. with great deduce tlons to clubs. Address, Ca arles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Fa. Tbe Times seems ambitious to succed Secretary Chandler as tbe mingled victim « f Mr. Hendricks, i .charges him mis morning with haviug refused when governor to take notice of accusations against a democratic state printer, whom his law firm defended. As tbe jharges were m ide ia 1871, eighteen months before Mr. Hendricks was made Governor, that gentleman will have no trouble iu again mopping the earth with an antagonist, whose zeal far outruns its discretion.—lndianupolis News (Hep.)

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