Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-26

events which OILY deferred the effect
of the act. but The Tribune of January
10, 1885, "rsc'ibed i" graphic words
y &txt. Of things which has not been
sen ut any time since, as fellows:
"Who is hung'y?-Go aud see.
You that are full fol and know rot
what 1t 10 I" b. hungry-p+rhaps never
-s~ hu'Rrv mango and zee. Go
aud see Thousand men, women, boys,
girls, old and young, black aud white,
If all nations hut one-,hrse are 10
misunderstanding and instling
each Other. almost fighting for q FIRST
chnnce-acting more like hungry
w"lv's than human beings in q lard
ot plenty. = Such scene
may b. seen every day, from IL till 2
o'clock. avuund the co'n-r Of Orange
md Chatham streets where Linden.
muller gives . dinner to tho poor,
and soup aud hr-sd to others to carry
to their miserable families.
On Saturday we spent a. hour there
1t the time Ut high tide. We have
n. YER seen anything like it before.
On Friday upwsri Of . thousand
people were t. d with plate Vi soup.
. p.~co ut br. I'D aud piece IT meat, On
ne premises. and IN I'll upward Of
s,Ateen hundred. On tho same day
ll3U PORTIONS Vi coup were d. at out
tom ot-wsst's soup kitchen i" the
"sr Of the great marble pAIa, Q
store. c.rncr Ut Resde STREET
and Bruxuway. At the
rooms IN duane street ivs the
'sllst Vi the p..os Of thu A,xth ward, ."
t"s same os., they gave tuou to two
Thousand, t~O nunurrd aud fifty SIX.
Al tn. Five Points ti"use II Industry,
y. the ssin~ gay, it " cal.
culst+'t that = thousand meals wese
CIV. n-ssy seven hundred off re",
l'~rsuas I'D. Counting the numher
It thu UId isowery Mis-io" 1t only
half that humber. We have, !" thu
SIX h ward, total OF over SIX thou
.s',.i p-rs.'ns ted b. c,a,it, on Friday,
January ~. lt.cOil ct,
t",s Is OILY one day in one ward"
1t - scarcely possible ny any words
~ ada !" tie force Of this ol,j.ct l~s.
sun. National di-ss,er has come
since t"s protective policy ~as
sdOpted, hut never such disaster.
SHIRT crops, the Civil Wsr with I'll
ITS h"r'o's, ~id~spr. ad commercial
ral~m,t,, have never brought back to
New York the sc~n.s witnessed wh+,,
y "tarf for rev. nue onl," WAS in
force. Merchants AID bXnkers failed
When the Civil War troke out, bu,
the l.borinx millions ~~,e able t..
earn their bread. Misfor,unes hav..
como ri"ce pro'ecti"n began, but have
never reached the lab. r. z millions SO
far that the dist e>s of 1853 und. 2 tue
revenue tariff has h~en --produceh
The generation now living has never
witnessed, hss to personal experience,
of the painful consequence which
followed the r-duc,ion IT duties t. q
revenue b.si. in 1876
Surely n" humsn., no p%tri tito or
rig't-thi,king cit zen will treat With
md ference the lesson viii. h TIL. con-
tract teaches. II = tariff tor revenue
only meant soup kitchens for 5000
people IN n single warh thirty five
years ago. what would it mean now,
when y vast number If xd,it.unA
manufacturing establishments have
h~en brought into exist nee, and been
enabled 10 employ an xrn> OF op-ra-
,iyes nv the protective pniicv il force
si"ce 1861? 1t is not possible tn
withdraw tne d.fen.-s to which great
industries owe their very tx >t-nc- IN
this county Without consequence. 8
which no change Of duties lrier t., the
last thirty wears could have produced
II 10 question which every man NUT
answer for himself. whether he has /.
rpkt 10 bring upon millions OF hi.
f-ll"w citizens such disasters. nv ad
h. ring to . parry which III | 'lindl.
follows it's theories of fiftv years ago,
/" spite Of al the s"fferi' 2 aud dis
t'ess which they have caus. d.