The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-02
FOURTH EDITION
the uNRM PLOYED.
Worlsmen's Wages suffer Under
Cleveland and His Free Trade Ideas.

Worilmen's wages suffer Under
Cleveland and His Free Trade Ideas.
The Edgemoor iron Works have
made reduction ir all OF their mems
wages. ranging from 10 to 10 per cent.
IL Is said n majority of their workmen
are Democrats, and they are busy yet
curslng the management for the big
cut III their wages while others are
more than glad that they have any
work ut all.
The Pussy & Jones Company. Hnr.
lan's, jackson Il Sharp, Pullmans and
every industry in our city have cut
their workmen, giving them Demo-
cratic Cleveland wages. How do the
working people of Wilmington like
ehly Inc foretastd OF what they Will
get before the winter is over?
Hundreds will be thrown out OF
work and will havd to be kept on the
bounty of their more fortunate neigh.
bors. while the very poor will have to
be led by organizing soup houses.
such is now being done In Phlladel-
phia and New DIRK.
Read what the New York Herald says:
: All lnterestB-indu strlal. mercantile
ana speculatlvo-aIh kept In suspense
hy the Senate's delay in passing tho
Repeal bill.
Fall trade Ia benumbed and mer-
chants whose notes mature are obliged
to ask Tor further extensions. In the
dry goods district bno secs only long
faces and many firms will he content
II they can only keep their sign boards
up during the coming winter"
Men who bought prints tat the great
Amoskeag auction sale ara reported az
unable to sell then at even the low
prices they paid. The ability OF the
people to pay for manufactured pro.
ducts and the grea mass OF popula.
ton dependent uIon tho soil is i'm
poverished by moderate crops and low
prices,
The demand for goods Is lessened
also by tho vast number OF lido men
ana the reduced wages paid to host
OF those who are etlll employed. The
poor are, therefore, Obliged to forego
comforts, and the we'll to.do having
been hurt by the panic and the stag
nation OF trade arc forced to econo.
mize. A Rroat muny men are over
hauling last years dvefcoats,
Manufacturing jewellers report that
they are not producing any novelties
this autumn. and dealers In all arti.
Giles OF luxury report stagnatlon. The
panic, oil couree, not only hurt the
poor, but ruined multitude of
wealthy people and cut down the in
comes OF all.
The Philadelphia Inquirer this morn
ny Prints the following:
On the verge OF stnrvation--Dis-
tresslng condition OF the once busy
mill district of the great manufacur-
lug city ensingtdn idle Thousands
dread the coming Of the morrow-No
money to buy bread Nothing with
which to procure medicines or bury
the dead-On the eve of winter opera.
tives see nothing but starvation and
eviction ahead OF them-Forty thou
sand idle men and women walking
the streets praying and hoping for a
break in the dark clouds.
There Is no money to buy bread, no
money to bury the dead among a vast
number of the population OF the Ken.
sington manufacturing district of the
city. IL is painful TO have to make
| such appalling statements, but they
are in no way exaggerated. The con-
dition of the wage-earners, who IN TO
few months ago crowded the mills
from morning unit night in that sec.
ton north of Glrard avenue, and on
up to anu beyond Indiana avenue, in
the northeast, Is thai OF poverty. There
Is no need Tor oVerd rawlng the picture
OF distress. 1t presd nts itself on every
side.
And the worst, IL Ia feared, Is to
come. The constable has begun his
levy--indeed. there were eyictinna less
than two weeks ago-and there are
those who have boon made homeless
as we'll as left without food. The
pinch OF poverty Is concealed in many
breasts-munly brtlsts-but there Is
the wall OF the child and the suffering
OF the mother that cannot he hnahe1
and hidden. There have been 60 900
people, gay OF heart, cheerful through
anu AFTER labor in these heretofore
busy hives OF industry, living with
most al the little cdmi Orts that make
the hearthside huppY-to.day there
arc running from 81, OOO to 40, 900 hands
mat nave no earning opportunity, no
looms or other Instruments of manu-
tacture waiting thoIr mnrnlng touch.
The above AFRO facts aud not cam.
palgn scares. II you doubt IL go and
visit .the Kensipgtbn District in the
city OF Philadelphia,