The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-08-26
THE ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED.
4 VAST MULTITUDE WITHOUT
WORK.
Few Citations from the Record Show
the Number to Be 100000. Some
thing Wrong.

thing Wrong.
Never before in the history of this
country has the army of the unemploy-
ed been REINFORCED with such multi
tudes as during the past few months
under the operation Of the single gold
standard.
Only few citations from the record
will be suffiient to make this statement
plain. In Boston there are 10000 la
boring men out of work; in Worcester
1000; in New Haven 1000; in Provi-
dence, $500; in New York city, 100, 900;
Utica, though small town, has 10000
laborers unemployed. In Patterson,
n. j., which is quite manufacturing
center. nearly One-third of the people
are idle. In other cities the number
of laboring men out of employment is
as follows: Philadelphia $4,000; Balti-
more, 10000; Wheeling, 3,OO0;.Cincin-
nati, 5000; Cleveland, 5000; Column
bus, 1000; Indianapolis, 5000; Terra
Haute, $500; Chicago, 200, 900; Detroit,
$4,000; Milwaukee, 100000; Minneapo-
lis, 5000: st. Louis, $4,000; st, Joseph,
1000; Omaha, 1000; Butte City, Mont,
5000; San Francisco, $4,000.
The figures are taken from the La
Dor World, one of the most reliable or
gans in the country. If correct, as
they no doubt are, the number of men
out of employment in the principal
manufacturing cities of the land is
somewhere in the neighbOrhood of
100000. Including the smaller towns
and cities of the country in this enum-
Grafton the sum is likely to reach, if it
does not exceed, 100000
What does all this idleness mean?
That man is hOpelessly blind who, after
looking over the table of figures which
has just been cited, cannot see that
something is radically wrong in the
management of affairs.
In addition to the mills and other
great industrial establishments which
. have already shut down, others are
likely to follow suit within the next
few weeks. If the laboring men them
selves were the :only. ones affected
by the loss of employment which has
been occasioned by the general suspen-
sion of business throughout the coun-
try it would be hard enough, but that
lsnot all. When laboring man loses
his occupation it means privation, sac
PRICE, hunger, perhaps starvation to
the helpless wife and innocent little
y children who are dependent upon his
Earnings.
Such a picture is indeed pathetic.
no one can even glance hurriedly at
he outline, to say nothing Of lingering
pom its darker shadows, without real
zing the helpless condition which such
misfortune entails.
Unless the present financial policy
II the government is changed there
an be no possible relief from the evils
gmeh the laboring men of this coun-
fy have been suffering for years.
lad money been more plentiful they
s2@ ght have retained their places. In
ead Of this, however, they have been
Smssed from work and rudely
'foWn upon the worlds charity. Even
pose who are not altogether idle have
cred such a reduction in wages as
make existence a burden.
Labor will never receive its Just rec
lPense until the time-honored policy
bimetallism is restored, and the du-
OF every laboring man in this conn
IS to put his shoulder to the wheel
~ hasten on the glad day Of his in
atrial emancipation.