The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-01


40, distributed as follows:
States unemployed. dependent.
New New h 9ori and New %. -N lo'''O'
| Jersey .., 800 $50 sos, ~
Penn ylvana. .. lo, 30 49,2t
Central Yves ern .,.. ,.2I.Sio 4i3,slo
Paci1c Coast 500 1900
southern. 4?,O66 1880
Total ..........S SOLOS 9b6, l10
The West, il will be seen, is
bad sutl' arei, because its urban pop.
ulation and the number of those
employed in factories is not large.
The showing for New York, Penn.
sylvania and New Jersey is nearly
as bad, nearly one-thirteenth of
their population being in distress.
The South appears to great advant
aye In comparison. With total of
5 100000 of workers only AZ ,065, or
less than / per cent, are unem.
ployed. Ii should be remembered,
however, that these figures are for
the cities only, SO that the urban
slb ldllOu III lllc oQulu 10 SOll6 udt
worse than they would indicate.
There is, however, bright side
to the picture. When the crisis
came, and with it the closure of
thousands of factories and throwing
out of employment of hundreds Of
thouaands of workmen, there was
great fear lest the amount of aid
and Clarity required would be
more than the country could give,
and thst there would be great
deal of suffering. The sutf ering
has been fully as great as exp ed,
but the promptness and eflici ency
Nth which measures of relief have
been carried cut has greatly miti
gated tue evil.
AS wehave noted, probably the
worst condition Of affairs has pre-
vailed il the Gogebic mineral dis.
tricts, where the closure of the
mines hs thrown tens of thousands
Of mines out of work, and where
in manyof the towns three-fourths
of the ppulation are out of work.
The appeal made for food and
clothing for the miners by the
governos of Wisconsin and Mich
igan called out, without the inter
yention of state help, such an
abundare of supplies from volun
tary giVrs that all distress will be
provide for. AT Pittsburg the
amount of money needed to give
work ad help to the unemployed
had scapely been made known be-
fore it vas subscribed. And 1t is
much tie same story everywhere.
Wherein the problem of the I'M
employees has presented itself there
have ben prompt measures of re-
lief proposed and the liveliest in
terest shwn by all. The problem
was mos difficult in Chicago, WI ere
the number of the unemployed
was exceptionally large after the
closure q the Exposition, but Chi
cage wet vigorously to work. The
churches were used as dormitories,
the vast lumber of the Exposition
distributed among the poor as fuel,
while thre were such liberal con-
tributiog of food that fears were
entertained that it might have a
demoralzing effect. The Chicago
central nlief committee has asked
for the SIM of $1,000, 900, which it
declares will be actually needed to
assist tn, poverty stricken through
the winter, and it asserts that there
are man, more families needing aid
than is generally supposed. There
is every reason for believing from
the contributions already made that
the entin amount needed will be
obtained
1t would seem from these facts
that even if the United States is the
victim If great industrial crisis,
and has hundreds of thousands of
unemployed workingmen thrown on
its hands to care for and support, it
IS able 10 provide for them without
resortine to the extreme measures
demanded of Gladstone by the un,
employed workingmen of England
that the government should sup.
ply them with work. New Orleans
Times Democrat,