Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — Wages and Land. [ARTICLE]

Wages and Land.

in the United States' "there are 32.7 -acres per head of the entire population 1 , while in England, Germany, France. Italy, Ho Hand and Belgium, the average is*only 2.3 acres for each person. In EurbpW the number of people is so great that competition for employment is neq•essarily very sharp, and this reduces wages to the lowest possible figure. That ds why there is a great stream of European laborers coming to our shores every year. Here there is more room, and a man can set up on a farm rather than work in at starvation wagest Fdf this" reason the competition in the labor market is less severe with us thap in Europe, and wages have not yet beeii forced down to so low a figure as the European level. _ • It is mainly on account of our 32. p -acres for each person that we have •higher wages than Europe. Protection

has nothing to do with the general average of wages with us. It is well known that the general average of wages in our protected industries is lower thau in the non-protected industries.