The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-04

LABOR DAY.


fered enormously. Between May l and
August OF this year the decrease In the
manufacture OF pig iron has been over "
Per cent The decline in wool consumP-
ton has been more than one-third from
May 10 August IL. The decline IN cotton
consumption Is not known. but over
2,Ooo.voo Of spindles have stopped in New
England alone. The shipments OF boots
and shoes since the end OF May show q de-
cline of 10 per cent. IL Is roughly esti-
mated that In the cotton, wooden, boot and
shoe and iron ard steel industries and IN
the mining Of coal. iron and limestone
more than 400,00O persons are at present
out OF employment. Perhaps the esti-
mate OF 100000 unemployed for the
whole country is rot an extravagant esti-
mate.
These figures are not pleasant to read,
aud yet they are not formidable compared
with the enormously increased capacity OF
the country TO take care of Its unemployed
compared with 1887 and 1857. In New
York city. while there has been recently
good deal of spectacular anarchistic pa
rade of starving people," there Is no
starvation. no restitution that her organ
ICED public and private system Of charities
f. not capable of relieving. No man.
woman or child In any great Eastern city
today need starve even If unemployed.
There is more danger of fostering pauper-
ism than Of ignoring distress. The New
York Sun says:
ssIn the crowded Jewish district IN the
lower part of the town. are the most nu-
merous instances of destitution: but the
Hebrew Aid Society has found no starva-
ton there. Even when the times were
most prosperous, poverty was prevalent in
seat quarter. The Jewish Immigration
has increased enormously OF recent years,
with the result that the demand for the
sort of labor IL furnishes has been more
than supplied. Those miserable creatures,
the victims OF foreign persecution, have
been coming hither too fast In chief part
they have congregated In this city, and
there are too many OF them for the work
they are competent TO do; but such char
ity as they need at this time or at any
other time is always ready for them. In
stead of too little. there is too much Of 1t.
with the consequences that the spirit OF
paunerism Ii cultivated and the stream OF
pauperIsm Is attracted hither."
OF course, If the financial and industrial
situation does not improve there will be
prolonged lack of work aud much suffer.
there IL no danger that this suffering will
not get relief. The American people from
ocean 10 ocean never Jack sympathy with
those whom financial and industrial
trouble has deprived of work and
brought within sight of suffering: bu
The anaronistic creatures who endeavorec
60 breed riots in New York city were no
genuine working folk at all. They wer,
the mere camp followers, maraudeTs anc
gnerrtlas that hang on the skirts of thi
great regular armies of industry and seel
20 kill :he wounded in order TO rob TIA,
dead. These foreign anarchists seem I,
think that freedom of speech includes tn
right TO preach murder and pillage.
on this Coast We have not suffered a
they have at the East. and we are no
likely To. because We have eomparativel,
little manufacturing. aud we have few in
dustrIal incendaries. our working PEG
pie know perfectly we'll that the employer
the present unfortunate financial and in
aastrlal situation than they are for IN
rise aud fail Of the tides: they know tina
no case Of genuine distress need go with
out relief among our people. and the worn
ing people OF our state would not give
very long or patient hearing 10 any ar
archistic harangues seekin. TO breed ba
blood between rich and poor; between en-
ployer and employed.
1t would not be candid today 10 promis
labor an immediate recovery from th
consequences OF the depression of Is9,
We cannot expect such a recovery With
the present year. The existing crisis ma
he fairly said 60 have been aggravated by
prospect Of important II not radical alter
atoms In the tariff, and untR our projecte
tarif reform is actually enacted we ma
iook Ter delay in the recovery OF mAny
featuring industries
The I,isA World recently said that '9t
thirty~sevea years since New York eli,
first witnessed 9 procession of unen n owe
men marching through iis streets for 81
purpose Of directing attention ~ the
wre;chea condition. This Was in ISIS
when duties were cur down - \ figure "a.
permitted foreign competition" II
army Of unemployed IS again msrehin
through thu streets OF New York. an
with mills shutting down and fsc,ars,
saa veskshors closing the number
the doemF Owed Is daily increased. n
New YORK Trihssns recalls the fact Ihl
naay ~ :hea- Ncrktagnen laughed "a
fall a. ;hs ijea shas tie success o. 90
rAFty rstheE than smother could MAI
ANY dserencs In their wages The tssos
a. these workla sEasa VAS that the trss'
uataas eo8.i x thesr wages, and "a
smashing the tar.H ss only roAhsnr e.
'b!osse3 capitalists" ost Of thelr profit
souse day these warktnsmsn viii reae.
that 40 employer pays wages shen he ca
net expees aay profss The Tsss.i
foFefe.v SAYS ~fhe closing Of mill CAT,
saa ssetortes s oasy the scas u tie shoa
fos Cseye1smd.s