Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-05
GIVE US BREAD.

Cold facts, nothing but cold facte will sat
isfy some people. The cold facts are, then,
that we have before US q very cold winter
and there viii be more want and misery ex-
perienced by the poor this winter, all over
this broad land, than during any winter,
probably within the memory Of the present
generation. To general stagnation of BUSH
ness and depression felt everywhere there
seems to be, and is, surplus on hand of
everything and, as strange as this anomaly
may appear, this surplus has, and does, tend
TO aggravate the situation. There is sur
plus of every kind of manufactured goods
conceivable, and also q surplus of all de-
scriptions of products oft the earth, fields and
pastures. The result is low prices for every
thing the farmer grows. the closing Of fac
tories that can no longer find remunerative
markets for their goods and the discharging
of hundreds of thousands Of
their employees and the throw
ing out of employment hundreds Of
thousands of others who delve for the fuel
TO run these factories and Of Others who fur
nish the innumerable kinds of raw material.
OF course there is no chance for the mer-
chant, the tradesman nor the shipper, when
the producers and the manufacturers go to
the wall. So closely hinges each of these
upon the other that to stop one stops all.
In the face of all this threatened trouble and
disaster comes change of administration
and with it threatened change Of govern
mental policies. So we will have hard
times this winter and the cry will every
where be heard for bread. Thin-faced
children will stare at empty plates; the
heart-strings of mothers will be pulled until
life becomes a burthen and fathers will cry
out to God in despair. 'Give US bread" will
be the cry of crowded cities where give us
bread" will be painted on banners and car
ried at head of columns of desperate men.
And sgive us bread" will be a cry that will
be heard in Wichita before spring. A gen.
.ieman who employs number of men said
that within the week past he could
have hired one hundred men at a dollar
iav and winter has not vet set in. Yester-
dav a man came to us, a bright intelligent
man, who has wife and four children de-
pendent upon him. Last spring he with
hem went from an eastern town
put to Commancbe county and
,ook up homestead. Sickness
overlook them and the six hundred dollars
ne had saved up with which to lay the foun-
iat;on for future home soon vanished and
being without anything to eat or wear or
10, in that wild country, he managed 70
each this city to find high rents, no work
md himself pennies. This is but one case
md we could say great deal more of this
me and would but in Difference to his own
ceilings. Organization, systematic organi-
.ation with business head and business
Methods will alone be adequate to prevent
and great suffering. Probably
his is truer of Wichita than any other city |
f this state for the reason that so many hum
lreds Of people have poured in here during |
he summer attracted by the news of our
ity's prosperity. Prosperous we have been
nd so were the penniless newcomers so
ong as there was nothing but warm days
nd plenty Of work. For the sake of limo
ent children and helpless mothers, for the
AXE of our good name, Of our own con-
ciences TO say nothing Of our own comfort
Bile ones, let thorough and systematic or