| Show I THE TAIUFi AND WAGES Senator FAULKNEiiof South Carolinade livered an exhaustive address on tho tariff a few days ago in which he showed that wages in tho protecte industries have declined de-clined Under protection i while wages In tho unprotected Industries have advanced without protection As a rule the protected pro-tected Industries pay loWer washes than toO unproiejted It should also be borne in mind that only five per cent of our Work insj population arc protect While ninety live per cent of oar workers aro not protected pro-tected that il about 800000 ate engaged i I in tho protected industries while Over 11G I 0 1000 > aro employed in industries that cannot be benefited by tho tariff This I was tile substance of the r port made by Foun ELLIOT and NEU COMD the mathe matical exports engaged by the secretary of tho treasurv in IbSS to ascertain the respective numbars of the protected and unprotected laborers in the United States Senator FAULKSEU handles the subject from a different poiutof view He says ThatanlGcrrotel value to labor is not given by auincease oJ customs duties eve to the workmen in protected industries is clearly shown liy the Durau of statistical nformattou of the 3uto of illluo a I Weekly wjges 11 I Protected Occupations J 1880 lEa l Brush makers SWOO 510 SO 5 Cloak factorywomsers14 75 11 7r 20 Coal mlners 12 XI 800 Confectioners 1SSU ia 14 33 Iron nul steel workers 41 10 3J50 11 Iron moulders 10 UJ 14 41 t3 Organ builders 15 U r li I Ifl 2 Paper mill operatives 1900 10 j Hi Salt laborers 13 20 UJ IU o hhOLraakers 12 0 u I CO 11 liners J 0 H Uo 11 iluc factory men 2 mtl I 15 75 L1 roe above shawl an average decrease of IS per cent This view Is more conclusively demonstrated to be correct when vo lind from the same source of information hat whcieas there was a dicrease betwion IHO and i8t in tho price of wages in protected occupations thero was a lare inciousu or wagt s during the same period in the unprotected occupations ci Weekly wages g Unprotected Occupations lEBO usa nriellJyr and masons U9 iii lv3iO 14 I Elcctrotypers in f10 tJ 15 44 HOIIcamers I 00 11 W Z1 Slate roofers 14 2 1573 10 itI Press Ceedr n 7 IX 8 ro JI I Slalrbulluers 111 t W 157 11 r Stelmth ter helpers 0 00 11 00 33 Stonobloek pavers h In 00 2100 3l Stone cuttersn Ie 00 21 I 00 l Street railway employees 10 2d 1301 i7 Wooden block payers 18 r 0 23 50 O Wood turners 12 OJ 14 10 11 This i5 an average increase of 24 per cent Time commissioner or labor concurs in this view In his report or 1883 in which ho states that In 1873 the per cent of wjges paid to the value of production in over fXX establishments was 24m and that in 18SO it was only 10fiJ a decrease onesixth in five years If this were true of Illinois only the argument ar-gument that a high tariff does not cause high wages would bo less convincing than it is But it Is true of the country as a whole The uunrotected carpenter engineer en-gineer or painter gets higher wages than tho protected coal or iron miner silk factory hand protected quarryman or linen worker I Yet the protectionists innocently assert that the low wages of 5 per cent of our working people in some way force up the wages of the 05 per cent who are not protected pro-tected Itmust take more faith to believe that alleged miracle than to believe any of the fables in the Alcoran or the Talmud |
