The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-02
THE WOLF.

THE WOLF.
Csuduion Of Cincinnati Working
men-Meehanies and LabOrers
Praying for Work.
From Sundays Enquirer. M,
People OF Cincinnati, people OF ohio,
citizens of the United States, perhaps 1t
will be wholesome for you TO look on this
picture of Old England, drawn several
wears ago by the master hand OF Thomas
Carlyle, and considered whether it does
not picture the condition of the great
manufacturing and mercantile communi
ties of the United States at the. present
moment:
"England (the United States is full o.
wealth, of multifarious produce, supply
for human want IN every kind; yet Eng
land 1.-THE United States is dying of in
snition. With undated bounty the land
of England [the United States blooms
and grows, waving with yellow harvests;
thick-studded with workshops, industrial
implements, with fifteen millions OF
workers, understood to be the strongest,
the cunningest and the williagest our
earth ever had; these men are here; the
work they have done, the fruit they have
realized is here, abundant, exuberant on
every hand of US; and behold some hate
full flat as of enchantment has gone forth
saying, "Touch it not, ye workers, We
master idlers; none of you can touch 1t,
no man of you shall be the better for It;
this is enchanted fruitW On the poor
workers such Hat falls first in its rudest
shape, but on the rich master-workers,
too, it falls; neither can the rich MASTER
idlsrs nor any richest or highest man as.
cape, but all are like to be brought low
with it and made poor enough in the
money sense or Tar tataler one"
Let US look at Cincinnati through the
eyes of men who are compelled to see the
situation. ut makes me sick at heart
my experience today" said Chief Civil
Engineer Anderson yesterday, and added,
"Why, not less than a hundred men
came TO me to. day and plead tor work
urged me TO make haste and 60 Oh with
that Park avenue bridge-begged for
work, saying their children were hungry
and their hearts were broken because
they could not give the little ones bread
when they cried for it"
Said Larkin McHugh, the Superin-
tendent of Street for the Board OF Public
Works: IL never saw the evidences Of
suffering l see now. We advertised for
sixty hands to work on Columbus ave.
nue., and when went out on the ground
q thousand men stood waiting there to 60
to work. We had to employ two hum
dred of them. Every day hundred men
come to me to inquire if there is any pros
pect OF getting work, and they keep com.
ing. 1t is enough to give one the blues
TO hear them tell their stories. l be-
iieve they say the truth Of their destltu-
ton. The river and the railroads that
used to employ so many men are not CIV
ing work to any body, comparatively,
now. The pork season will not be here
for several months, and the shops and
mills that employ thousands are still
have been still for months, and Il o sands
Of little mouths cry daily for bread, and
get none, because those whose place it is
TO provide them bread can not get it for
work, and they have not the wherewith
to buy. l met man only to-day, a good
mechanic, leaving the city with bis bun
die under his arm. He did not want me
to see him, but spoke to him. He told
me he was going West to try to get work.
am of the opinion that the mechanics
are suffering as much rs, if not more than,
the laboring men. sec good mechanics
every day sitting on barrels IN the streets,
looking down, ssying nothing and Twill
ing their fingers" How like the power
full description by Carlyle Of the "Master
ldlers" of England. "In the eyes and
brows of these men hung the gloemest
not of anger, but OF grief and
shame, and manifold, inarticulste distress
and WEAKNESS"
An Englishman and laborer, who has
been hero twenty. mine years, speaking
Yesterday 70 an Enquirer man, said: "On
the 18th day Of February, 1855, / was in
Liverpool, whittier l had come from Bris-
tol, on my way TO America There was
great distress among the poor there at
that time. / saw an immense procession
of these men marching through the
streets with loaf of bread dipped in
blood and elevated ON pole Along the
streets where they marched business
men made haste 10 close their doors and
windows before they came, SO they march
oil through desolste, silent streets. 1t
WAS not safe for the police 10 resist, tor l
tell you hunger is q sharp thorn-Ive
felt II myself-And these men had stood
hunger themselves, but the cry of their
babes for bread had msddened them.
They were given work; work was provi-
dsd, and the Mayor rode before them and
broke the news to them, and they dispers-
ed. I'm afraid if help doesn't come in
some way before Christmas We shal! have
the same state of things here for the first
time in the history of Cincinnati. I've
got along myself. l came here twenty
one years ago, and worked for three dol.
lars a wsek and my board, and kept my
family a wife and two children. 1tstrue
q great many will suffer in spite Of the
times-sutier in good times-but there
are . great many, who are honest work.
ers, who feel the pinch Of want now and
can not help it-men who are doing their
best, but they are men whose best never
would be much. Yet they are men, and
l pity them. 1 don't pity men know
who 60. ten dollars week twenty years
ago and wasted it. / would not care
much TO see such men pinched little
with hunger. but i can't stand it to see
their children suffer. l can't get steady
work by tho day, and I've bought horse
and wagon and I'm going 10 peddiing. l
must do something"
Now We have given a glimpse Of the
situation. We have seen it ourselves, but
preferred TO show it IS seen by the eyes
OF others. Witnesses ad ii6it,am may be
multiplied, but we have given a part Of
the testimony Of only three. This article
was intended 10 be merely suggestivs-it
could not be exhaustive. Now comes n
onoation for thraa IN ansWer who have