The Globe-republican., 1891-10-29
THE TARIFF OF Is46.

THE TARIFF OF Is4e.
What the New York Tribune Predicted
The Sad Fulnllment-Scsnes In 1855 in
New York City-The Whole Country
Prostrated-StarvatiOn and Want on
Every Hand.
The Walker bill, establishing . 20
called tariff for revenue only" passed
both houses of congress on July 90.
1916, and on the following morning the
New York Tribune INDUCED in the fol-
lowing
PREDICTIONS.
The tariff bill of Walker and Mckay
has passed both houses of congress, and
has doubtless ere this received the sig
nature of the president 1t takes effect
December 1, and as the law of the land
it is henceforth to b obeyed by all
We believe the change just made en-
tireiy wrong - fiagrantly. grievously
wrong-yet we shall studiously avoid
panic making"
When the crisis has been met with
manful resolution, we apprehend that
there will be quite disaster enough, suf-
fering enough, because of this great
national mistake. We fear that thou
sands upon thousands who would have
been steadily employed and comforta-
bly, situated during the ensuing winter,
if this bill had not passed, will now be
destitute of employment and dependent
upon charity for bread No. it is not
possible that such legislation as this
should stand. The mighty tornado Of
indignation and injury will resound
from our betrayed and sacrificed labor
ers. will demand the repeal Of this most
impolitic and unrighteous act.
THEIR FULFILLMENr.
From the New York Tribune, January Is, lssa1
Who is hungry? Go and see. You
that are fulfilled and know not what it
Is to be hungry-perhaps never saw a
hungry mango and see. Go and see
thousands, men and women. boys and
girls, old and young, black and white of
all nations. crowding and jostling each
other. almost fighting for a first chance.
acting more like hungry wolves than
human beings in a land of plenty. 1t is
only by the continuous efforts of two
policeman that the crowd can be kept
in order. or made to wait till the food
10 ready for distribution. Such a scene
may be seen every day between II and
o'clock around the corner of Orange
and Chatham streets, where charity
gives dinner to the poor. and soup and
bread to others to carry to their miser-
cradle families.
On Saturday we spent an hour there
at the hour of high tide. We have
never seen anything like it before. Up
ward of a thousand people were fed
with plate of soup, a piece of bread
and piece of meat, ON the premises,
and in all more than 1000. On the same
day /. $50 portions Of soup were dealt
out from Stewards soup kitchen" in
the rear of the great store, corner of
Reade street and Broadway. At the
rooms on Duane street for the relief of
the poor, on the same day, they gave
food to 2, 256 In the Sixth ward alone
over 1000 persons were fed by charity
on Saturday. January Is. And this is
only one day in one ward. Meanwhile,
scenes of like nature are being enacted
all over the city. A procession of sew
eral thousand persons kept marching
about the streets yesterday. with flags
and banners, which bore such inscrip-
tons as: Hunger is a Sharp Thorn"
The Last Recourse" Live and Let
Live" I'VE Want Work." etc
Such ere the scenes that are being
enacted daily before our eyes while the
cry of hard times reaches US from every
part of the country. The making of
roads is stopped. factories are closed
and houses and ships are no longer be-
ing built Factory hands, road makers,
bricklayers and laborers
are idle. and paralysis is rapidly en-
bracing every pursuit in the country.
The cause of all this stoppage Of circu-
lation 10 to be found in the steady out
how of gold to pay foreign laborers for
the cloth. the shoes. the iron and the
other things that could be produced by
American labor. tut which can not be
20 produced under our present revenue
lJstem. Tho CONFUSION would have