The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-02

are filed 10 overlooking with food products
We are told that forced economy" has re-
suited In balance OF trade In our favor OF
more than $4oo, 0oo. 900. Notwithstanding all
this, there are business troubles, financial
distrust, industrial prostration, forced idle.
ness, gaunt poverty, and for the first time In
the history OF the country bread issue In
politics. We are we'll aware that In the par
lance OF the rostrum II Is termed the
money or the financial" issue, but these,
analysed, mean 10 the working people OF
the country bread. Thousands OF them are
out OF employment, and are without means
TO supply those dependent upon them with
bread. The rounded periods employed by
demagogues TO please Shylocks and bond
holders when telling OF the reduction of the
public debt is not music I'm the ears OF men
who have nothing 10 do, whose wives and
children are half naked, and who are suffer.
ing the pangs OF hunger, with their pros
poets steadily growing darker.
From 1866 10 1878 there was work for all
and bread for all. Since 1873, when the bale
full effects Of the radical Shylock policy was
felt in the destruction of business, there
has been In this country struggle
for bread In which millions OF people have
been engaged. The radical Shylock policy
throughout has sought TO conclliate the
money power, regardless of the welfare of
the people, hence We find the rich. the nom
producing and interest receiving classes,
happy, contented and prosperous, while the
working people have been made poorer, more
wretched and more dependent, until, finally,
the question of bread looms up with start
ling significance. In discussing money, men
are agitating the bread question. for with
thousands money has no more vital signifi-
canoe than is found In the word bread
These millions of working people are not
thieves. They do not steal bread nor
money. They prefer to work for their
money, and like honest men buy their bread.
They remember that when there was plenty
of money there was work and wages, food
and clothing, happiness and contentment.
They remembr that as a result OF contrac-
ton they have endured forced idleness, pow
erty, want and hunger. They know that
the radical party, by ITS cursed financial pol
icy IN the interest of the rich, has reduced
them TO their present deplorabIe condition,
and therefore they are everywhere breaking
away from its ranks. 1t is this radical
financial policy and the causes IL has
entailed that has made it possible for such
men rs Kearney and Cohen TO obtain vast
audiences to listen 10 them in all sections
the country. Call them ignorant, communists,
socialists, exhaust the whole list of denun
ciatory epithets upon them, still the fact re-
mains that the people turn out to listen to
them. Why? Because they denounce q
policy that makes il possible for men TO
starve in America. The men who go to hear
these sgitators are those whose homes are
darkened by want, whose wives and children
go hungry and whose clothes are rags. They
are told that for years the republican party has
legislated against them and in favor of the
rich, and they are told the truth. The de-
mand is bread. The possibility OF starva-
ton in America must not exist. The rsdi-
cal party has brought the people to this
verge of despair. A mighty reaction is tax
ing place. The industries of the country
must be revived, and there must be money
sufficient 10 transact the business of the
country. The democratic party is pledged
to these reforms.