Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-22
Facts for a Blaring DemagOgue.
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Roger @. Mills, of Texas, Demo-
cratic candidate for the Speakership of
the next National House of Representa-
tives, stood up before an audience in
Mansfield, o., September 20, and gave
the following gloomy description of the
industrial condition of The country:
In every part of the land-north, east,
south and west-there is widespread dis
content and every manifestation of unrest.
The complaint is coming from every
quarter that the life struggle is growing
harder and the way is growing darker.
Labor complains of enforced idleness, and,
even when employed, that it does not re-
ceive just share of the wealth it earns.
Millions are in debt, homes are mortgaged,
and labor is powerless to pay the debt or
save the home.
There is not school boy in this broad
land who does not know that this is a
gross misrepresentation of the facts. 1t
is impossible to plead ignorance of the
true condition of the country on Mr..
Mills part. He has recently been in the
Northwest, and must be aware of the
great prosperity which has come to that
region through the abundant crops of
this year. Even while he was delivering
his doleful speech preparations were 60
ing on in Minneapolis, Mimi. for holding
a great harvest festival and returning
thanks for the abundance which has
blessed the husbandman. The festival
occurred September "a, and was one of
the most memorable events that have
happened in the Northwest. The streets
were decorated with arches, the build
ings trimmed with flags and streamers,
thanksgiving services were held in the
churches, a solemn high mass was cele-
brated in the Cathedral of the Immacu-
late Conception. and a procession paraded
the streets carrying at its head a huge
banner on which was inscribed the Dox-
ology.
This occurred only four days after the
Texas demagogue drew his dismal pic
ture. But if Mr. Mills cannot take this
harvest festival as proof of the falsity
or his statements, perhaps he may be
willing to listen to the utterances of
paper of his own party. The st. Paul
Globe, the leading Democratic paper
west of Chicago, has this to say on the
industrial situation in that neighbor-
hood:
At this hour the only poor who have the
right to uttera bitter rremonstrance against
their fate are the poor who are also sick
and weak For the strong of every trade
there has been during the past year, and is
today, an opening for their skill and power
At no time during the twelve months now
ending have the railroads Of the Northwest
been able to procure half the hands they
could have used At no time during the
past two months have the owners of farms
found a force available to meet theirneeds.
If there are mechanics out of employment
or tradesmen looking for a job let them get
ont into the land of wealth, where the
golden crops are calling for their services
There is a loud cry for help from the prai-
ries Let it be answered promptly by a
host of willing men.
The situation is no more promising in
Minnesota than it is elsewhere. The
same good fortune that has blessed that
State has smiled ON the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Wisconsin. Michigan and Ohio. And
yet Mr.. Mills could stand up in the
midst of this plenty and deliberately
utter what he knew to be false, in order
to frighten his hearers into voting the
calamity Democratic ticket. 1t is ep-