Labor And Protection

Below we append a table showng the price of labor in' several of he more prominent trades in low arifFEngland and high tarifï Germany, as compiled from the consular eports. For convenience of comjarison we have reduced wages to ie price per hour in the respective ountries. This was neeessary. Sfeither wages perday nor per week would give any data for comparison as in Germany all classes of wage workers are employed from sixty hours toscventy-eight hours a week, wliile in England from fifty hours to fifty-four hours constitute a vveek's work. It is not necessary for us to add any argument to these figures for they teil their story with sufficient force and clearness to satisfy the most skeptical. The wage wolkers of America can here see what would be their condition if population was as dense here as in Germany, and f the great plains of the west did not annually absorb the surplus population from theolder states. We commend a careful considerador! of this table to those who have Dased their argument for high tarifF n the United States on the difference oetween wages in this country and