WAGES IN AMERICA.

Evening Star, Issue 7233, 8 June 1887, Page 4

WAGES IN AMERICA.

10 THE EDITOB. Sib.— Allow me through your paper to give • a few words of advice to Mr J. Neil, who came to the front so boldly at the Oaversham meetiDg on Friday evening as the champion of Protection, and, as usual, paraded tba * “1“J Paradise, protected America. Now, I say that Mr J. Neil knows nothing at all about America or its people, or he would not talk as he does about it. It is true that he went to America about two years ago; but ho was only away about six months altogether, and I know that the best part of his time was s] ent in Cincinnati and a few other towns in Ohio. He had no chance of seeing or reading much about its but back he comes a full-blown Protectionist, and at all our public meetings, when he speaks, America is always to the front. Now, that list of wages in America that was published in the Stab some time ago was good as far as it went, but in contrast to the income it should _ have given the outlay. 1 am afraid that if the shop- 4

keepers in Dunedin were to charge at the same rate as the American tradofiVnen do, our wages would not go very far. I have gone out and in of nearly all the sea-board ports and a number of the large towns in the interior of the United States, but I have not found tho working inau happy and contented, as some would make out. On the contrary, I have heard curses both loud and deep against tho powers that be on account of this same Protection that we hear so much about. I say, God forbid that we should ever have to adopt such a form of Protection as is seen in the United States.—l am, etc.,

One Who Has Been There. Dunedin, June 8.