Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1888 — Wages Per Week. [ARTICLE]

Wages Per Week.

Workingmen, cut this table out, paste it in your hats, and when a mouthing protectionist asserts that protection makes wages higher, just show it to him and ask him why wages are nearly twice as high in free-trade England as they are In high-tariff Germany: WEEKLY WAGES IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY. Free-trade High-tariff England. Germany. Bricklayerss7.s4 $4.21 Masons 7.68 4.07 Plasterers 6.80 4.43 Carpenters 7.26 4.11 Blacksmiths 7.37 4.00 Cabinetmakers 7.(W 4.25 Cigarmakers6.W 3.58 Coopers 7.50 3.07 Laborers 4.80 3.11 Saddle and harness makers.... 6.63 3.53 Tinsmiths 6.56 3.45 The “Henry of Navarre” of the Republican party says : “I say here that the wages of the American laborer cannot be reduced except with the consent and votes of the American laborer himselt!” This is a piece of important news. The American laborer will be more surprised than any one else when he reads it. According to Mr. Blaine, whenever there is a reduction of wages for the benefit of some rich monopolist it is done to oblige the American laborers. Either this is so or else Mr. Blaine is indulging in a very reckless assertion. However, he is not a stranger to this kind of campaigning.—Detroit Free Brest.