FREE TRADE MISERY. Hathaniel McKay Tells of His Tci r Through British Marufac turin? Center?. PEEP AT POVERTY IN LONDON. Working Women at Masculine Labor Stern Facts for Our Wage Earners. Free-trade slavery still exist in the British empire uotw itbsiainling the re duction of the American tariff, which benefits the Kmilish manufacturer, luit does not reach the British workman. Eight years ago 1 visited England for the purpose of studying the condition of Thin "court" h'hp honw-sh.s .attero tic! -ontaiiied H bouses li dwchincs 5 oil olio side ami I oil tile oilier. fclid !iee three . . s t were all there was or this whole ;"iiiiirt.' Hoard aud l.Mttlug. These hovels are ins-i-ted by the e lice. I found a certificate in the hall f one of them dated March 22. I'fiCi. an. I -igue't "A i . V oo!, ch'cf olice super intendent." These certificate are signed at hi- ..Hi. e. mill prot.ahl,v he uever vis its the iilaci-s. One man told rue he had for his hrcak faM bread and butter a lid tea no meat and for hi dinner hn-ad aud bacon, but meat wax a luxury he could not af ford. The tenant lbs-ted around nie by the dozen in Miller's court. I would have Is-eti glad to have taken some pho tographs of these scenes and "courts." but the weather nan too cloudy for any satisfactory results. I pased from thiM court to another, and. going to a disir. I asked. "What do you do for a living?" The man there answered. "1 take in lodger." "What do you charge':" "Fouris-noe its tvntsi per nieht or soveupence (14 cents) a couple." (The man saw there were two of us.l Pas-itig on, we came to the largest of it kind, containing :Ct."i beiis. (in the ChaJnmaken of Cradley Henih earnl'ig from f ! jn 1.50 rer week, working tea boors per day. Taken Aug nut 'b; lw, by X. MrKoy. the working people and comparing their ground floor of thi lod (fin ghotise wages with those of Americana, r our large room for the men to ait TDaPH airn t iti'iiIm m bii.viiuI viutr fnr thft ! same purpose ami on August 1 li. LSlHi, I left New York, for the third time, to make another investigation. I arrived in Manchester on August 21 and there began my invest 'srntioo, where 1 found more deslituth-n ibui. I had ever seeu in any other city. The "Cesspool" of Manchester. Standing, looking no Ansel meadow. graveyard on the left and behind one of the worst "courts." in (Jrest Britain, j public homes of course, and all around i a population Krruggiiiig iu the ocean of ! is a The moral and social degradation, it has been called the "cesspool of Manches ter.'' Its history is a history of dirt. Tile crime, drunkenness, riot, cruelty and robbery. The houses are low and dilapidated, and many are villainous holes, unventilated. unilrairied, corrupt, reeking with suiellx, utterly infamous and sickening faith to body and mind all thin within a few minutes' walk of the Queen's hotel, the Exchange and railway stations. There are scores of rooms furnished kiichca b.low contained a large closed cooking riuge, which was red hot, and the odor of the cooking going on made it anything hut enviable to he iu. The lodg ers all cook for themselves anl have a variety of thing to cook and tbey are not very particular as to how mauy dif ferent things are cooked together in the same pot. We went upstairs and saw .'J!l5 beds, w hich are let at three differ ent prices ti, 8 and 12 cents per night. The 12-ei-iit lodger hag a place boarded off to himself no water, no towel. Wealth and Poverty Miami. Manchest-r, with her 500.000 popula tion, boasts of her wealth and manufac turing resour.-ea ami one would suppose that all of the people alike lived in pal aces; hnt to examine into the exact con dition I find quite the reverse. Thou sands of these people live otj alcohol. When they earn any money, it goea for alcohol chiefly. ( 'oTuitig back to my hotel, the Queen's, facing one of the finest streets in Man chester, is the Royal infirmary, all along the front of which there are Meats which Mrs. Ells Hssd. age , ehainmsker of Cradley Heath. The background shows on the left the vw.v-iu.i.l mvfi uii me riKiu inc noine. ene makes fj.iea week. Taken Auguit 26, 1SS, by N. McKay. with a table, a chair, a thing called a bed and a few pots. These rooms are an I let for 18 cents a night for two size 12 by 10 where people eat, cook and sleep. I entered some of these houses if such a name could be given to the hovels I saw and iu one I asked of a woman: '! you rent this?" "yes," was the reply. "What do yon pay for it?" Fonr and six ($1.08) a week." "Have yon the whole house?" "No, sir: only this room." (Size 12 hv 10.) "Io you sleep in here?" "es, sir: we sleeps, eats, cooks and everything here." "Von have a room above np the stairs?" '"No, sir; that's another par JyV" t'an I go np?" "Yes, I dare say he will let .vim." "Befoie I go tip 1 would like to ask, 'What o yon do for a living?"' "My hn-!'i:d sells sandstone, sand and bine mole, or he gives the stone and geta rags, l-ottles, bone or old iron for them." "AVlat does be earn in a week?" . t 'his niieattou the woman smiled. "Well." It depends sometime more. snniettn' s less. One day perhaps a shil- ! shoddy line cents;, saoiner oay i ana world. (2M rsv ts) sad so on." I sbwuhl say here that the agent finds the put, paaf bed and fire, such as they are, far I wtU nt sfteaapt to de erlbe thn. This I will say no dog of mine sbonld ever he allowed to sleep on wi st is called a bed in Umnh places, The whole oattl was not worth 10 '"'"Msr. mm a tsv.4 rardT "No. sir." 'wlstl kt yoar chwet, then?' are occnpieil by prsir people from the sitima. I was informed that many aat there the whole night, so 1 arose early the next morning and went across to the seats and found that HI), 12 of whom were women, one with a child, had sat there all night because they had not the necessary 0 cents for a bed. The trade of Manchester is very much depressed at present awaiting the pres idential election in the lnited Ktales. The merchants of the United States are making very small purchases now, lap cause they fear a new tariff hill and because American consumption is less ened through the idleness of the people and their inability to buy. The manu facturers and shipiiers here do not want any change in the present American tariff. Bm they say they would rather have McKinley for I'residcnt than Bry an, for if Bryan is elected and a silver standard declared in the 1,'nited States, they cannot sell their goods at all to America. Yet they despise JIcKinley for, as the London Times stmed a few g, "his Infamous tariff bill." Trade I'srsly.l. in Nrwllord. Leaving Manchester. 1 ford, which is the largest woolen ,.,! maniifatciiring district in the Trade is lmralrxed them r.. I as Lniten states shipments are ron. j re rued at present, '('he manufacturers i nre awaiting the election of the Presi ! dent of the United Pt,ncs. to know ! whether he will he a free trader or a nro- (cetionlst. The merchants sre very much agitated on this account for fhev can get hut few orders from file C'nfted Ktales. I said to one of tbera:' "Voti hare now the whole British empire (In cluding India l. with a tKiimlation of al most .flna,uuo rant r;M b her majea tft U Mpplyi wh ar fou aot saUsftail to manufacture vnor go.s and sujij ly your o u p-ode ;" His answer w as: "We want the Anwr icau market. It is the greatest market in the world and during the time the Mi Kii'lcy lull was a law our manufac turers were o,uite paralysed." There was cxned from Bradford during the last nine months of the ex-istciu-e of the M.-Kinley law JI.17H.lMi worth of giusfs. This was frntu Jauiiiry 1. 1VH. tu Scptemts-r .'ill. iM. Iuriiig the -orresKinling eriod of the following year (from .lanuarv 1. lS'.C. to Septein-U-r l, 1S!C,.,. under the Wilson bill, the ejjHirts from Bradford amounted to $21.1Tl.oisi. Five times as mwh under the Wilsun bill as under the McKinley bill. The total exports for the year lstCi from Bradford amounted to (Si.'iTt.ionK These exs(i-ts include thirty-seven items, but consist chiefly of card clothing, col ton gisjds. iron and steel, machinery, hosiery, stuffed goods, worsted goods, yarns, silks, etc. Mr. Meeker. United States consul at Bradford, furnished me these statistics, which were taken from his reports to the state department. We manufacture similar goisla in America, but on account of the Wilson tariff bill we have been deprived of the chance to manufacture them, and the money which should have been paid to our own working people ha been paid to the laboriug people of tireat Britain. Our chimneys have ceased smoking, while theirs are in full blast. Our working M-ople are idle and deprived of a living on account of this iniquitous, free trade, Wilson tariff. Butluess Thrives la Birmingham. I left Bradford on August 24 for Bir mingham, passing through Leeds and Sheffield, whose iron aud steel works are in full blast. Not only in these places, but all over England, this line of in dustry is prospering. And the factories are running full time, and the greater part of their product ia snipped to the United States. And while their works two) and he told me it was bis wife, who was very iuck. All around were signs of poverty. It was n.it hi for hu man beings. It made me chill with pilv aa 1 looked on this terrible scene. lining through a little mint l ut lux Hi feet, iu the rear of this tnw. I caiue to the shop where one of his d:iu:htrr makes chain with another woman. I asked her name and she told me Clara Boxa-y. Her age is 22 years. She has lieen making rbaiu for five years and receives from Jl.". to 2.1'i a week for her work. She insk.-s three eighths inch chain and is paid fl.'C for 112 is. mills. For breakfast she has bread and butter and lea and sometimes a piece of bacon. She t"ld me sh worked from i ocl.sk in the morning until 7 iu the evening; ibal the only rea son she staid there was because sin could not save enough money to pay her fare awar from the tow n. The buildings look as if they had stood for centarios. and as I passed through the little court leading into (he house and which is walled ou every side by houses I counted tiftisn little children from 2 to li years of age playing tie get her in all the filth that could sur round a blacksmith shop in ties district. Across the alb v was iui.it Kir s'oii where another daughter was making chain. She is married, has one child aud uiakci J2.1U iT week. She has been muk.iig chain for twenty vcars. having coinmciu-cd w heu she was 12 ve;irs old. Her husband, a chain maker also, earns from ?i to M..SI a Week. Mrs. Pi.lly 1'ow kes has fmir daugh tors making chain. She is 54 years old aud has made chain since she was years of age, but is now !si old to work at it any inure. Kach of the daughters makes from f.2 to Jl.Tsf per week. I'liey live in a little old hulls.-, with stone flooring. Here they cook and eal ami live in the same risuu all huddled together. The girls are very smart at the forge. 1 set five girls to work ciAotc vTrtw FtCXT Emily lroni, ge 32, Crsdley Heath. Ens.. V) yer s rhsinmkr. Work" ten hunrj per dy sic earnitilsa week. The building Is her b! lomlib shop. TsUn Aug. ISM, by N. Mrkaj. are running full time our is-ople are idle. Today the goods that are being made iu Leeds and in Shcflicld would, were it not for the Wilson bill, be made in the United States. I spent a day in Birmingham, which is another thriving and prosiiemus manu facturing center. Here also the people are very desirous that no change be made in the present American tariff si hednle which would result in depriving them of our market for their goods. The British Chain Ciang. After leaving here I went to Cradley Heath among the women chainmakers and women blacksmiths to witness the misery there which 1 had visited in bboe Worn by Wlgan Women. 18.SS and iu 1S!2. There are women there by the thousands who make chain for a living in old, low buildings adjoin ing their houses. One man, William Boiler, said he was 56 years old and earned 00 cents a day as a laborer, w hen he could work. He has five daughters aud five sons. Three of this daughters are chainmakers and one works in a brickyard, carrying brick. I went into his house. On the lower floor was a room with a stone the blacksmith shop. They worked .'W' minutes and made uie 14 pounds ', three-eighths chain. Each piece wsi over two feet long, and they worked Ilk. Isaveni to see who could make the long est piece. They work fen hours u day I gave them a shilling apiece when the all came into the room, and I asked them how long it would take to earn that amount. 1 hey replied. "It wool' take more than a day" (to earn 2." cents). I thought. "Miserable England: Women foal Miners, I did not visit Wigan this time (.is 1 have done twice Iwforel, but there is no change in Inlsir there; the oorhoiie which I described aud reproduced in l)fi2 still stand. It is a pitiful sight to wit ness the poor women there, half starved and half clad, wheeling coal on the to of the pits for the small pittance ol 40 to .VI cents for ten hours' work. I reproduce here a cut of the shoes thai are worn by the women in these dis trieta. heavy clogs with big nails in the bottom. The situation has not changed yet. Ai long as there is coal in the pit there will be women to wheel it. At one time thii class lived and had their families Ui th coal mines, but Parliament prohibited this, and now they do the wheeling or the top of the pits. With this chesi labor no wonder coal is cheap in thi country. This coal is used on the very steamers and vessels which carry Eng laud's free trade labejr product to Amen ca to compete with our labor and maim factnrea. Charles L. Snowdcn of Brownsvilti Pa., writes me: "We pay our miners 7 cents per ton. or $2.i0 per 100 btishi ! (70 pounds to the bushel). One man i .'i put from l.V) to 2t0 bushels per da; and can earn from to $4 daily. Ther. A soap shot taken In w hiter ) pel. stiowfni bow the poor get their rest. Tsksn August 2i, IMS), t,y a. Mt Kay. floor and an old fashioned fireplace with ovens on each eide and a (dace lor eon! in the midiiV. iinck of this was a little space for a no broom where there is room for only ois .icrson. In the front room all the enokl'itt i. done and it Is also used for a living room and dining room. Upstair is k room Hxl2 feet. As I entered here I notleed a woman lying om the h4 (there wtte are no Kiorhouses in Brownsville st.irlu; these working people in the face. Tloo make from six to eirht times the wn,;. of the poor sople at Wigan. ami tic ' nre no women at woik wheeling coal : t'te United Htstes. funpsra in the llrltlah Knjplre, rnp'ilallon of Oreet Britain snd Ireland, OT.TttMrJ' Pauper. . i., ,(, . ... .., IioHMrjn Os pauper to every 37 nristis Tweoty eifUt pMUT Iu ecrv lew all et.ilia. (.'..( ! uiaiulatu llftc- psiiifer suuusily .'.". siV.tT5 Cost to iiislntslu tlie jueen aud tbe royal f.u.i.v fi!Ct,770 Cust I., lnaiutilill the presldeut sail bis wrrlarim is.'. OCi The lsipiilatk.il of the I'.ritish empire, including India and the eol.mics. is ;Ui. ''. There are .".11 colonies -.nd 4" distinct overnuielits. I.lf lu IRiton. I arrived in London August 3N, aud made a visit to White. Iimh I. I risilcl a hslging bouse on Osls.riie street. I asked for the proprietor and was intro duced to him. They call him "the gov ernor" to distinguish bim from other There are .119 friendly societies of trades union in Ureal Britalu sitli a iiicmisrsiiip ,f Lie).'!.'""! (taken fruui re (sirl of House ef ( V.niiiiotisi. Several of these . M-tie sre l.s-ated in luudon and include some .f ttie trsdi-s enuuicr ated iu the Bith table. The so. wiles control the e of lbr various trades, and were it not for the stand they lake their wages would be reduced by the manufacturer to a lower standard tUn tiny are st present, which is less than one-half of what is paid in America. Higher Wage In America. Our last census report of gsve us 4.712.022 people employed in manu facturing, the average yearly earning of each person being f4Wt. The average iu Daugbten of Mrs. Fokes, chainmakers of Crsdley Heaih, earn II 20 I f s week. a day. Tsaru August X. IB'.s.. by M Mi Ky. Work ten hoar men. His name Is W ildemouth. He lodges imtsous in his house every night. His rooms sre by ft feet am) he receives 12 cents ier night for eai h of these rooms. I went from thereto Commercial street (in liitoohapeli where I saw a place ailed the Victoria borne (kept in the same manner as the one on Oshoriie street 1. where the roomers pay from (i to 12 cents per night. Then I went through the thickest part of Whit.s hsMd an alley called Petticoat lane. I be meat hanging in the stores and on the sidewalks was so filthy that it sickened me and I could not tarry long enough to ven ask the price of it. I asked the nnce of herrings 1 cent each. Bread was 1 cent a loaf, and it was hard look ing bread; potatoes one-half cent a isnind: onions one-lmif cent a pound; ,'1 isutnda of carrots for 2 cents. Such a filthy trading market would disgust a stoic. They live in filth, br.sd iu filth aud die in filth, knowing no' lung else. The 'Casual Ward." Then I went to a public institution known as a casual ward, the same one I visitei eight years ago. 1 foiiej h jhsi as ii was iu i .-vi-- guardian, told me this The kecil... or ! per ward had Is-cft ' of England for each person (taken from reports published by Pariiumciiti is about t2. a difference in favor of America of $2iN js"r capita. Now there arc thou sands of people iu England who do hut receive one-half this Jl'SO. We pay our angle iron smiths r:i er .-cut. more thrui they r; paid in England; our blink smiths. 10'' s-r cent, mote; our boiler makers, 47 ier cent, more; our brick layers. l'Jo iht cent, more: our istjlcr shop helper". !l.1 r cent, more: our carpenters, lisi per cent, mure; our con ductor bm express trainsi. .'il!l per cent, more; our locomotive engineers, llil per cent, more; our uo!i. e. 2'KI s r cctn. more; our telegraph operators. Ki: j,er cent, more; our train lipatc!ier. ::Ki m r cent, more, and our common labor ers, loS p-r cent. more. The difference in all classes (if labor Is the same a thi-se example I mention. The engineers who run the fastest ex press trains on the road ill iighitul get but $1C Sl ier week for ten hours per day. The firemen get ."i.li2 per week or !1H cents M-r day. The gmirds (who correspond with our conductors I get from jM.NO to iftl.72 mt week. Tlie s.r ters i we ei.ll them brakemen) gel $4."! week. 1 Ins is a sample ol the pay English lalsir. Our engineers in in existence for more Ihiin finny year and that there were thirty such plains in Ixuiilon at present. These institutions are kept as public places and are reallr xKirhonses. If a mau has no muv. he can go there and apply for admittance. whicB begets il the place ts not already filled. When received, they are kept in confinement for two nights and one day, America on the expr.-ss (rains receive :il.."l S r week, our eondiicior $211 and our brakenian 513. We pay more than dotibli- the wages paid in England, where railroad fare is higher and the coal che.'tjMT than in America. The following table of wages answers ail the free-trade fallacies of the Demo cratic party and cannot he disputed: .11 aKJWiWon; mmm Mill r n ' ftA-A'DT. i r La- j r j -- .a m i'. i O V. i WJ. ' i i. ' l Mr. Fowkes' daughter work l n bouts mt dav. earn from Sl.m 1.S0 per wsek. Taken at Cradley liusth, A ugiw ISM. it the expiration of which time they ure discharged. Nobody is allowed to come to these , ibices more than un.-e a month, and he can stay no longer than the time pre crilcd. The ward I visited accoiii uiodated fifty-five nieu and thirty-two women. The beds consist of a narrow strip of canvas stretched like a hammock lietwcen two iron rods about a foot from (he floor. The applicants are admitted after 6 p. m. in tlie summer time and after 4 p. m. iu the winter time. As soon bs they are admitted they nre given a bath in one of the six baths iu tin ward and their clothes are fumigated and disinfected. After the bath they have their sups-r of six ounces of bread and a pint of gruel. Eor their tail they are given three blankets. Eor breakfast they receive the same food as for sup per. For dinner, in addition to the bread and grtiel, they are given l',4 ounces of cheese. The total cost for caring for these people, during the period of their rontinemetit, including the five meals, is ') cents each. A.I vice to American. My advice to every American working man Is, as I have said before, to pro tect hia own rights and the rights and privileges of his family and not to fol low the whims, cries aud falsehoods of the free-trade politician who seeks lo have goods imported into the United States which are made by cheap pauper labor laetiu he thinks the goods inn be sold cheaper than if they were made In America. If the wages of the American working men are not reduced to the standard of i hose in England, and the goods are not made in America, he has no money lo purchase these cheap goods with. Be. rng deprived of work, where are they to 'ct their money to make their purchase vith? Kehor In London, The following statistics are taken from Booth's "Life sinl l.aiH.r ol the People TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL 80UHCF.8. Per Week. ts (Is Allele Iron Mill I In. . . , llollermaker. ....... lion ksmii hs Itrb kin vers iiollershop helpers., i'alkcrs. ............. Carpenters, house. ... Csrtteuiers, ship Conductors, express. ( ar .Irlvers. l-.ng. VI hr.. Anier. 12. Kngineers, l.ninkin and .Northwestern and V V. Central Firemen, express If.Mtcarriers. Holders on, boiler shop. Joiners, house, I.lvrroiMjl Laborers In al reels, Lon-i non. , , 'longshoremen, N. Y diM-ks TJl lu toe per hr; I.tidon dorks 12e per ti r Machinists, 1st rfsss.. Machinists, 2d class., . M sons, H hours Mol.lcr. Iron I'stnters , plasterer. Plumber , Platers Printers, Job Policemen. I'M . era Tllveler IMirgcr Xtngc drivers (same lu.ise cr rtrlversi. ... Teiegriiph operators... r.iiiilniol - f London," showing the number of pen- j -i'eriige nrst years serv e empioyeu in uh- mnous iiue in me tv ot ixiiiuoii: Pallors wi.Ti'l os-it and slcs'tiiskers Isi.iiM Hatters " -i N,ssmnssr Ti ItlliMiI'-ra. , , i Milrtmker 17'JI -lachlnUl. . I.rai.er snd hosiers Si.:.i7 ks .- si,.,.,. Cabmen, eoseiimen. nusuien, etc.. ,. viii,i ). Hallway service, moor, eic amen -. -. I ..'t lon'k service, laoor. corn neaver. porll IS. .lrnrri., -S..UI -neriti in'ior. fiictoi' 'shor , if r. . f ' - .-lne driver anil arlNaita 4."i,:::i' Ave' age tea years' serv- c. . . , t , T rain dispatcher Cc 'i.oiou luborcr J j Mortnr umker ., . . siri.Mii t i .. .' Kurj 27.ii 7.ir.-; l!I..Vi: W fli I 14llj IlKSi N 11 X :i sc J ir I2ii :i.iki' k.iu; 7 r' s to 6.W; .17 1 c i.r. .!.". 1 1 IL', 1 ,s. 3.111 fll Wll lO.Wll 17 10! ,(,.! 1H .VI! lll.fs'lj hi.. fi.Olj 7.ltt I lO.ral 7.20! 1 .III 1 ss a.ii l.os ,;i:i Ati T, n't! II to i:: Mi K lit; IV.i! Jl.iiO' 21 (l I2.U0I IS.tKll rsi. i:i .vi' l.r2 I Hon id m 21.001 I0..MI, lll.Mlj 7!'2: II mi H fll! H SSj 7 H2I ii tmi It 721 72 7.0S I00 T.' r. .ot' 4 (XI1 7.2ll l.:is 7'i l ;i7 r.i III 1. v; ,;t5 1 21 2. n 1.77 .81) .41 .3(1 l.tn 1.W 3 PI 1.11 ..Vl PiiglUh sisso drivers work 12 to 15 hour dav; American, 10, Totsl 'II olhef classified eluded above labor hill lu- .1, 20l.2li 711.21' grand total la Loudon , ,, .1,112, 4W I hcnpness will bo still more dearly j '.-ought by the American wave-earner if i we continue a free-trado policy iu Amer- . i(S. I piesent this sLiloiiienl lo the Itcpub i.iin iintioiiiil con. luit lee, free of charge, id trust they will attend lo the diie i ti lloitioll of it. i Nathaniel McKay. Tendon, Kept. 4, IWHi. KVCN.