The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-26

1t is wonderfully suggestive. A man on the
street suffering the pangs of starvation. Hon.
est, temperate, frugal, willing to work
pleading for work; his own hunger pangs
intensified by the knowledge that in howell
near by a wife and children were dying of
starvation. In a moment of desperation,
when hunger had dethroned reason
he steals-steals to save the lives of those
for whom he would willingly toll; but there
is no work-would do anything for bread.
Oh. God, see the accumulations OF bread.
You can not get beyond the sight of bread.
Ships are freighted with bread railway
trains stretch across the continent loaded
with bread; elevators are full of bread; and
bread isgrowing in fabulous abundance from
Maine to California i'm thousands of fields.
Still the cry is bread-men willing to work,
pleading for work, who instead OF commit
ting suicide. or lying down until starvation
has done Its work, go forth to steal, steal in
broad daylight, forgetful OF law and its PEN
alties Driven to madness, they, like Hollis,
rob, drift into the paths of vice, and swell
the army of criminals forever tramping to-
ward penitentiaries. All over the land
Starvation is producing pictures like that
which the Tribune presents. They are in
creasing in number and haggardness. That
such pictures should be production of
America is marvelously strange-food and
starvation side by side; bread and meat
without buyers and furnishing thousands
without work. Such are the curses of rsdi-
calism. The radical party is the author OF
Americas shame and restitution. 1t has
filled the land with crime and poverty and
misery. 1t has proved to be the most mon
strous curse that God in His inscrutable
providence ever permitted to visit any land.
1t will be remembered that the silver bill
was brought forward in congress
a measure of relief to business. There
were hopes that it would help to revive the
industries of the country. Please observe
that when this benificent measure reached
Hayes, the fraud who occupies the office of
president, he endeaYored to kill it. And
still the radical party indorse Hayes. The
early repeal of the cursed resumption law,
that contraction might cease and that indus
tries might revive, was sought by democrats
Try at heart. But radicals, in the Interest of
Shylocks, postponed action, and Hayes
stood ready with another veto to defeat the
will OF the people. As consequence bust
ness is depressed. industries haven not revived,
and the poor are starving. The cry for
bread coming up from hungry thousands is
terrible, worse than a midnight alarm of
fire. 1t would be supreme folly to ignore
the terrible fact that poverty, destitution,
hunger. starvation and crime, as the direct
results of radical supremacy, are fearfully on
the increase. Men and women and children
are enduring the Undesirable pangs OF hun.
ger in thousands of homes in all portions OF
the country, and still the radical party, with
its crimes and curses. its frauds and perjuries,
asks for new lease of power. To release its
grasp upon the government is now the su
preme demand, and the calamities it has
forced upon the country will be likely TO
contribute their full share in bringing about
the desired result