New Jersey .......... ................. $1. 00 Illinois ......... ............1.62 N rk. .. ............... 1.08 Indiana ....................................... 1.08 I N orth Carolina ........................... .75 lassachusetts ............................. 1.28 I V erm ont ...................................... 1.17 cnnsylvania ...........1.85 Connecticut ................................. 1.16 According to the United States consular reports the earnings of woolen weavers in England vary from $3.50 to $11 per week. If we keep in view the relative productivity of the labor of this country and England. we can not avoid the conclusion that the $1.50 per week in North Carolina is below the lowest of England. and does it not prove that the American manufacturer gets his work done cheaper than the English manufacturer. and that therefore the wages of labor do not and can not find consideration in his cry formore protection? It also proves that we are brought into deadly competition with labor in our own country that may be as justly called "pauper labor" as that of Europe. It further proves that the tariff has not even preserved to us our just share of the natural opportunities of the country. that it hasonly been instrumental in building up colossal fortunes for the few. and that a continuance of it will end in our degradation to a condition of serfdom. There are a number of mills in and around Philadelphia where $5 a week are considered very good wages now for a weaver. and there are any number of mills in England where these would be considered starvation wages. and whenever the employers here offera reduction of wages they set up the plea that some of their neighbors are paying less. and hence a reduction is necessary in order to enable them to compete.
Identified stereotypes
Implies English weavers are 'pauper labor'.