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DURHAM, N. C., :SErT. t)th, 1884.
What Makes the Rate of, jWages.
Edward Atkinson of Boston, last
week read before The British Science
Association, assembled in Montreal a
learned paper upon the alove topic.
He demonstrated that the proportion
of wage earners to eihployejra was 15
to 1. and after touching lightly upon
the dogma ofexcelsive population; con
tended that laboij and capital combine
to produce the annual product of indus
try, and that in the last analysis char
acter determine.'
the rate
of wages.
He assumed that in the United States
on capital
and that
the maximum rate of profit
t he overwhelming mass of annual prof
it is shared bytliose depending on
work for snbsitencc. He aVgued that
the relative share of wage-earners
must be determined by. the competition
of the laborer with laborer. Their
share was the increasing1 art of an
increasing product. In the long run
the wage-earners must get pO per cent
of the annual product. High wages
.were equivalent to low cost of produc
tion; low wages' implied high cost of
production: These pointy Mr. Atkin
son illustrated most forcibly. One
man's labor in
Winnipeg
net of this country represents the wage
of laborers, it will be readily seen why
labor favors a protective tariff.'-..'
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SCALES ANDiYORK.
Scales land York will still continue
to discuss-jointly the political situa
tion and since democratic Journals
supporting Scales have quiet ; plainly
vised jhim that the language used
him tdward York was both improp
and unwarranted it is presumed
that we jshall hear less of disturbed
meetings, and have more harmony- and
political decency. It is evident that
there is some breaking avay from
Bourbonlsm in the AVest that is not
pleasing to Scales and his friends.
We do hot now remember a time in
th!e history' of our State w hen there
was so much ill feeling and bad blood
as! has characterized the Mountain
canvass.! York has been belittled
to no avail, as it is now recognized
that he is at least a match in joint de
bate for jhis competitor.! JWhen they
gijve Durham a visit we hope to have
an opportunity of judging the r merits
ot these candidates fQr ourselves..
or Dakota
gave him an annual surplus of 1,000
barrels of flour to send to market.
Delivered in New York the ilour rep
resented four men's labor fur one year;
baked into bread it represented seven
men's annual labor; and it would feed
1,000 men for one year. This and
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kindred facts led him sometimes to
think that Mr.
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Yanderbilt was the
chief communist of the day; since he
had saved a dollar for his -fellow men
for every cent lie made, through the
consolidation of j transportation. Mr.
Atkinson gave the results of the man
ufacture of cotton sheeting in the Uni
ted States during fifty years, showing
that for that fabric wages iiad increas
ed 04 per cent; that the cost to consu
mers had diminished 22 per! cent. The
were only
11 Cty years
steadily' di-
profite in manufacturing
one-half what they, were
ago, and, while they were
minishing, the wages of workmen were
advancing.
When it is pretty clearly demonstra
ted that 90 per cent of the annual prod-
POLITICAL INDIGESTION.
A correspondent of a city coiitempo-
rarv has evidentlv attended a "free
barbecuef7' and while suffering: from
serious indigestion has advertised him
self as a Bourbon in whom there is no
guile. We Mid not imagine that so
niuqh spleen and ill feeling could exist
in any heart, much less in the heart
ojf one so deej)ly imbued with the
Spirit ot his Divine Master.; That
charity that covereth a multitude of
sin seems to have no indwelling in him.
The editors ' of the Republican unfor
tunately lhave no great amount of re
ligion tq speak of; certainly none to
advertise!, but they arefat least toler
ant of the opinions of others. For
I iourbon intolerance proscription, prej
udice and pretty uncharitableness the
communication is certainly remarkar
Lie. "Carpetbagger," "Scallawag,"
II vile scum," "slime of society, J "pot
l ouse political filth" &c, &c, are his
pet expressions. We beg to advise him
in all kindness that we never feel quite
elasy unless we have a blanket of these
highly j re ligio-moral epithets to
cover us at night and that nis contri
bution is appreciated.
POLITICAL
Cleveland hasniissei
and the free-trade calf!
SMALL TALK.
1 both theprotectiori deer
Syracuse Standard.
The democratic party is no hog,- but jt lilies to
hear from its Candida
ville Times. J
cs jioccasionaily.-4- Louis
The lack of Democratic harmony is explained
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by the fact that the party
the campaign.
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The Lancaster
lias lost the keynote or
hands who
Examiner cautions
may be employed to serenade Cleveland that all
such .tunes as 'Nancy Lee" and. "The Cjirl I
Left Behind. Me? arc not appropriate-
The democratic candidate is a man with ft 1GJ
collar, . ja No. " hat, k No. 11 lootj a bachelor
upon the huropean plan, with his do
relatibns; served a la carte. rEinofv A.
marnei
mestic
Storrs.
erajlly
circles.!
The tumor that Bil
y English will contribute
$ 1.-j0 to the Democratic; campaign funds is gen-
iscredited in t
Illinois Suite ' Journal
We advise him to' run down there nex
and see Blaine inaugurated
iebest informed financial
Gov. Cleveland has never visited Washington.
The (Democrats arc boasting that Governor
Cleveland's neck is t
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March'
icker than ever, Jjut
they
don't say anything about the -condition elf his
head.
, ThejBoston ljerald rejoices to think thaj. "the
siient vote will be largely castfor Cleveland and
Reform." If ajmaniis so far gone as really to
identify Cleveland with reform he. would natu
rally keep still about it. 1
' . .j; - -i ' h "" ! ' '
"Twenty Years of Congress," is a. bri
weighty, durable production. , No jtnan wh:
not read this history
1 1 t
thoroughly knows Mr. Blaine, and none
goes for knowledge of the
tjmd
errate his i
will
magnaninrityl-M.
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author to these pages
htellect, his candor, or his
to death. Newark
liant
o has
can affirm that he truly and
that
W. Ilazeltine
It would be an interesting thing to learn where
in The
Senator Hawley busies the men whom he
News.
Democrats j oiighl jto know where their
candidates are buried: General
'talked to deaih"
Cleve
wishes.
and can make arrangements now,
Ilftwley has
several of them, and Mr
Sun,
talks
own
if he
that
Mr. CHeveland read in some school book
the President is an executive offices, anl be put
it in his letter of acceptance. The Democratic
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thought that they are beside Uremselves wit j joy.
"Hear hi mtalk""tii ey My. lie's no sloach."
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The Democratic papers are complaining bit
terly that Republicans are trying to belittle! Mr.
Cleveland's letter of acceptance. .The fact is the
Republicans couldnlt make it any littler than it
is already.