Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — More Machinery and Better Pay. [ARTICLE]

More Machinery a nd Better Pay.

Since the extensive tatradoetim of the sewing machinea we do met tow of the distressed needle wanes at ooe time so prevalent Typewriter* get double the wages they wwttd' get as I pen writers, and they de Me flaw as much work with comparative pleasure and great leisure. Steamships costing millions, equipped with evety knows invention for safe and cdktest service, In six days at a nominal cost with every comfort, take weekly with alas oat unfailing regularity thousands «f people across the Atlantic, where if 1790 It took Samuel Slater, tlr honnrnl fnnuT er of the cotton trade, ufxty-rfx days to cross, and no doubt with great discomfort and danger. Small newspapers cost, at one time, Oe, Se, and 12c, and were loaded with a government revenue stamp. Now a bettor paper can be got for a cent, bat the compositors and printers get much higher pay and have, like the newspapers, btcrcased many thousandfold. So It runs ail .through, and the world gets benefited.—Fibre and Fabric.