The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-12


men c~rowding the colonades and interior
OF the city hall in Chicago, writhing and
struggling like brutes for a scrap OF
bread and a spot OF shelter from the
pitiless storm without, is a sad COM
mentary on the times up N which We
have fallen. These were not tramps, but
honest men who could not get work; men
who a year ago were we'll TODD, happy
and prosperous. They cared for their
families, perhaps, in a comfortable way
and laid a little by for the "rainy day"
that might follow. But they did not and
could not lay up agsinst such a time as
this, when protracted idieness would eat
up all they ever possessed and after
every corner in the station house and
charitable institutions in Chicago, had
been filed to OVERLOOKING be driven to seek
shelter IN the open colonades OF City
Hall. This scene was but a REPETITION OF
what is occurring in nearly every large
city in the United States. Ten thousand
is said to be the number OF idle men in
the iron regions Of northern Michigan
and for whom the legislature OF that
state will be asked to appropriate $780,.
900 to keep them from starving.
So instances might be multiplied OF suf
fering and want. Contrast with this the
condition of the people of South Dakota.
Fuel or fine clothes may be a little ex-
pensive, but of these and all the
necessaries of life there is 6 sufficiency
and few are suffering for the want OF
these things. Good average crops and
and the ECONOMY taught by years of toni
and planning have made Dakota people
thrifty. Their expenditures the past
year have been guarded and though
small returns have come to them for
their crops it has zone far in lquldatlng
their liabilities to merchants and others.
Merchants and bankers on the other
hand nave been as careful in their out
lays and in assuming DBL cations and
they speak encouraglngly. all things con
sidered, OF the measure OF success they
have met in collecting accounts and
meeting obligations. There is still con
siderable gran, stock and produce IL
poultry in the country to draw mo ey
this way and on the whole the oItiool
for South Dakota as compared with
other states is very encouraging indeed
The volume of business being trans
acted daily is a good index of the SAT,
and rosperous condition OF our people
There is, perhaps. moi the usu rush o
holiday trade when money is spent OF
things not necessaries; but the yoium
of business Ia all that goes to make
people successful, comfortab e an
~contented is far better than We near Ie
ported from other states. The though
of the IL erchant and others who empio
men in their business will be to curta
expenses as much as possible after TIL
holiday season is over, and some hare
ship may ensue 20 those thus thrown Oh
of employment. Employers should u
prudence in exercise of economy. N II
ing will hurt their own business or tt
good name of q city so much as the ext
tence OF q lot of idle men. Better
keep them on reduced wages for a seast
and divide the loss with them; it "
thus be less all round. IL will be but
few months till the opening tide
spring sets In and Dakota is a wond.
fully recuperatiye state towards sprir
Capital will begin to flow, business
vive and every thing come back to
normal condition. The time is not
distant and the best of encouragems
Neu hit TO prevail and we believe will p
vail If all keep upthe courage for VIII
Dakotans have become famous.
Have for sale Two residence lots
which | q give very low prices, eitI
Tor cash OF on easy payments. If T. ken
ouce. CHAs. b. KENNEDY
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