The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-02

Michigan, which. after the hottest day,
make sleep possible and the warmth or a
blanket not only endurable, but desirable
NO PLACE FOB THE POOR.
Chicago is not a place for the poor. Chi
cago is overpopulated. 1t hasn't work
enough for its men. 1t is confronted by
serious trouble in the near f~uture-trouble
which 1 fear will be quite as serious as
that of the recent past. through which
nothing but the firmness of the general gov
eminent and the presence of the United
States troops, with the one and only nag
in the van, enabled it in safety to pass
through. 1t seems to me that lessons
taught by incendiarism, assassination and
riot ought to make deeper impression upon
Intelligent communities than they nave
+ made upon the people of Chicago
In some respects they remind me OF men
who, when very dangerously i'll. cry anX-
iously for their physician. but as soon as
well and restored to health, forgetting the
past. with its perils. begin again the course
their serious illness. The conditions which
permitted a Debs to initiate himself for a
few brief hours are there now. Labor is
restless, confidence is but veneering. Inc
demand for work is infinitely greater than
the possibility of supply. A hard winter is
before them. and thousands upon tnou,
women look anxiously to the coming OF
the cold weather. wondering what roofs
NIL aUOru them ShciltT, WHdl SONiCty win
clothe them. from what fund they shall
be fed.
To an observant eye the wreckage. in
Jackson Park is apt application OF the des-
titution in Chicago's self. 1t isn't a CUES
ton as to whose fault it is, nor who is TO
blame, nor on whose SHOULDERS eensaae may
staring fact is, that as the wasting IRE
has destroyed the beauties OF the fair, SO
brought thousands of Chicago's people TO
the very verge of restitution, to the very
threshold of despair.
it with the human debris? 1t will require
ingenuity. patience; many men, muen our.
lay of strength and thousands Of dollars a,dl,im to
beauty as a popular resort. 1t can be
done, however. and before next. spring
every vestige of all this desolaton ana
with suffering humanity. Not so with the
starving poor. Not so with the foolish men
v wh9 had Of and gaHs aRR Tors ana a. W sne : sasi
Debs. Not so with the hundreds and hun
dreds of Columbian Guards who are
stranded in the Windy City, no work. no
prospects. no money and no friends. What
will be done with them? What can be done
for them, and for thousands of others who
went TO Chicago during the fair days an
ticipating profit and were forced to be con-
tent with existence, is a problem that
with certainty confronts the autnorltles Oh
that unfortunate city.
WHAT WILL THE END BE?
All luCd VI IL VI
listing there among honest industrians may
be gathered from the fact that when a
railroad company only this last week
wanted men to the number of fifty or a
hundred, the crowd Of applicants answer
ing the advertisement was so great, run
ming up into thousands, that the aid OF
the police was invoked to keep the men.
eager. anxious for work. away from the Of
fees of the company. For every JOB where
one man can be employed there are a num-
dred applicants. One alone. can succeed:
What becomes of the ninety-nine who fall!
large; greater, indeed, I imagine, than is
absolutely necessary, in pursuance OF the
programme of helpfulness which the kind
hearted authorities have adopted. But in
the first place there is a limit TO the work
to be done, and in the next place there
is a limit to the number of men who can
be employed profitably, and last, but by
no manner Of means least, there Is an
end to the appropriations which can be
used, and that end is now liz sight.
/ tell you 1t is a problem recurring the
most intelligent consideration of the sober
est and most discreet of men. The situa-
The solution of the problem may require
not OILY the sympathy of the people, but
the strong arm of the government.
Meantime, the fair is a thing of the past.
It's glory is gone. emphasized in our mem
the ruins. the blackened. charred distor-
tions which cover hill-high the vast spaces
| so recently populous with admiring crowds;
| beauty. in structive in its wonderful un-
foldments of progress aIong the lines of
science and art, and entertaining in a thou
sand ways, not alone to the ordinary
thought and to women of refined instinct
and laudabl desire