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the employer oftentimes goes further with him than 

 justice. 



It is often alleged by Northern writers and statis- 

 ticians that the wages paid Southern laborers are much 

 less than are paid for the same class in the North. This 

 is more apparent than real. A Northern farm laborer, 

 with a family, has generally to pay rent for his house 

 and garden, purchase his supply of fuel and pay for the 

 pasturage of any stock that he may own. All this is 

 given freely to the negro farm laborers of the South and 

 they are employed throughout the whole twelve months. 

 In the stemming factories many negro women are 

 employed in stemming tobacco. They easily earn from 

 50 cents to $1.50 per day. 



The wages of a Northern man may be $20 to $25 

 per month, but much of this will be absorbed in buying 

 what the Southern farm laborer has given him, and it 

 rarely happens that he is employed for the whole year 

 at the wages named. The Southern laborer has more 

 money to spend for his pleasures and is rarely oppressed 

 with debt. In the Northwestern States, with the 

 bleak, cheerless climate of that region, the wages of $30 

 per month to a laborer will not provide near as many of 

 the comforts of life as one-half this amount paid to a 

 Southern laborer. .The winters of the Northwest are 

 long and dreary; fuel is expensive and necessary to 

 comfort for at least six months in the year. The char- 

 acter of the clothing also, suitable to such a climato, 

 makes it much more costly than that required by the 

 laborer of the South. 



The great and leading difference between the white 

 labor of the North and the colored labor of the South is 

 this : The first has ambitions, calculates possibilities, 

 and looks forward to the future ; the latter enjoys the 

 present, is indifferent about what is to come, and is 

 utterly incapable of that self-denial which makes thrift 



