The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
TERRIBLE STATE OF THINGS.
WRETCHEDNESS IN EUROPE
AND AMERICA.
The Employers Decree that a Mil
lion Human Beings Shall
Starve.

Read this, from the st. Paul Dis
patch. Republicans:
ION Saturday of this week. the 10th
instant, it will not be the most gigan-
tic strike ever organized, but in the
nature CT an enormous lockout in
Englan |. On that day the entire boot
and shoe manufacturing industry will
come to Il complete concert OF action.
have oICcrcd an entire suspension of
work for an indefinite period The
number ( workmen who will be thus
thrown out OF employment is eSti-
mated at 100000, and with those di.
rectly dc! endent uron the operatives
we'll onto 10000 OF persons, about
one-thrtieth Of the total population
of England. The cause of the suSDen-
sion is no. clearly stated, but it grows
out OF Gn Hort to reduce wages owing
to the stagnation in trade and the
general deprc 5sion in all branches OF
business The manufacturers, ac-
cording to the statements by cable,
utterly refuse tOSubmit the queS tions
involved u arbitration, as they have
heretofore been accustomed to do
ing"
Dreadful dreadful.
One million human beings turned
OF lowering wages.
A few hundred employers having
this terrible power over their fellow
Neutrality-suspicious. ians; in this
latter end Of the nineteenth century,
This is the kind of work that makes
anarchists.
1t would make anarchists of you,
good readers; to be denied work when
you were willing to work. and have
your wives and children starving
around you.
And this is another of the results Of
the contraction of the worlds money
by demonetizing silver. He'll will
have to have an annex, to provide
quarters for the scoundrels who have
brought these miSerieS on mankind.
And here in America we are going
the same gait. Read this from the
Coming Nation:
Rev. John A. B. Wilson, 305 w 18th
street, n. y, spent a night on the
streets OF New York, and says that at
least 10000 men walk the streets to
keep from freezing and that their
condition is simply more horrible than
tongue or pen can picture. He says
they are not trampS and criminals
but are willing to work and can get
nothing What picnic they would
have been in the slavery dayS-1O, coo
slaves anxious to find master! No
slave-owncr ever had SO many nor so
skilled. What if these 10000 men
should get desperate? The Rev. Will
son says they could all be housed in
~
that have been erected to kill them if
they murmur at their lot. That SO
many ministers are awaking to the
conditions and causes is one of the en-
cOuraging signs Of the times"
Yes; every preacher who prays every
day" Ihy Kingdom come on earth, as IL
is an Heaeen," should get out and hus-
tie to make it come. Now too many
Of them stand idly by, and see the
wretchcd populace forced into such
evil conditions that they are only fit
for the internal regions when they get
through With this earthly Sheol.
To draw d salary and talk about
things that occurred 1000 or 5000 years
ago is not ''tilling the bill" 1t has
about as much to do with the progress
of mankind as a disquisiton on the
carboniferouS era.
Rouse up, rouse up, oh preachers OF
the gospel, and look around you, and
behold your fellow creatures perish
ing, while the Devil takes possession
of the world Christ did not come to
talk about things in the days of
Abraham; he preached about the
things OF his own time and he de-
nounced the sinners and oppressors
around him.