Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Wages in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Wages in Germany.

The report of United States Consul Warner, at Cologne, Germany, recently received at the Department of State, contains some interesting statistics on the wages paid in various trades in that country last year. The telegraphed summary says: “The statistics collected embrace replies from 906-cities and 924 unions. The figures show that the wages have increased dn only seven cities, in 229 they have declined, and in 670 they have remained stationary, while food products have been dearer. Only 211 cities of the whole number visited showed full employment, while in thirty places almost complete stoppage of work existed. In Germany the head of the household alone cannot earn sufficient to support' his family.” This is the condition of affairs in a European country having a high protective tariff, copied from that of the United States by the great Bismarck, who thougt to reproduce in that old, thickly populated, army ridden, monarchical country the prosperity enjoyed in this newer and freer land, with Its boundless opportunities and wonderful natural resources. When Protectionists talked of “pauper wages” and hard conditions of life abroad, during the late canvass, they fought shy of protected Germany and quoted free-trade England, where the wages are higher than anywhere else in Europe.—New York World.