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Show I BY COMPARISON, WE ARE MOST PROSPEROUS. The people of the district of Seville are reported prosperous but an average av-erage American would consider himself him-self terribly afflicted if he were transported trans-ported to the Spanish territory and placed on a level with the most pros perous of the middle class The Standard has received a consular consu-lar report containing a schedule ot wages Unskilled male day laborers receive 36 cents a day; bank clerks an paid $9 and up per month A school teacher Is given $180 a year, or $15 a month The cost of living Is not correspond ingly low and as a result a large percentage per-centage of the population can pur chase only the barest necessities We sometimes complain that times are not as brisk as they might be. and that the opportunity to get ahead are limited in the West. A few months' residence In Seville might change our point of view and Betid us home rejoicing that, while other parts of the world present distressing evidences of poverty and offer no hope for the downtrodden, the West Is boundless In Its bounty. A school teacner in Seville Is paid $15 a month He has given yenrs of his youth to preparing himself for his duties and yet receives less than a mesBenger boy s reward for after- school work In this country No wonder won-der tho foreigners from places where opportunity Is so circumscribed feel t h c- hiive won release from bondage when, after landing on our shores, ih' rain regular employment at from five to ten times more pay than they could have expected under the most I favorable conditions In the land of I their birth I oo |