Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-02-04

CAGO.
York Journal

While the sympathy OF ,he Amer
lean people i. tiowiug through one IA
channel toward the starving people
OF far of India, a portion OF it r
should rush out through another
channel in The direction OF nearby =
Chicago where loo 600 people are
credib.y reported TO he also endur-
inc tie agonles Of starvation. !
It is almost beyond belief ,ha, in "
a county which last November stood -,
by the present state III things to the =
ex,eut OF giving Mckinley q major {
itv OF 64,9-9 there can be such ,
appaIlln. destilutlon, unless tie
amoun, of Mr.. ~Ilanna,s campai11
fluid has been grossly exaggerated.
II tie vote selling business was net
done on q much narrower MARIN
than has been generally supposed,
the profits would surely not be *
haustei within three mouths OF ;he
election.
But such spccnlations, however
: curious, must be o.erpassed In
5 .,derarion OF Tue dreadful fact that
nearly u 10 every ten persons in
the second clty in the United States
- suffering from lack OF tood-acltv
!. winch tour years ago was able TO
E spcnd more than Sl0.oO0,0(O on a
u Worlds Far. It would be bad
i enough if the sufferers were OF the
sort We have always with VI, the M
+. skilled laborer and bis family. But
" ne situation III Chicago is no ordl-.
I" nary situation. Besides tie nnskiiI-
n ed iaborerS there Is WIDESPREAD mis-
a, erv among those who II Europe
40 would be SAID to compose the Md
:, die class. The Bureau ct Assocla
ted Charities reports that 1t has ur-
IL rent appeals Tor aid iron skilled
'a> reu ia all the trades. ":1en who a
OF year aro," say the Bureaus agents,
..nwuea their own homes, sui2li
shonkeep.rs whose stock i their al!
=" and who can. sell neither stock nor
TO shopa-,hese n lhousandsarefor ce1
to ask tor charity to ieep fron
starving and freezing to d'alh. lh'
dull t.mes have co'npellet such cor
noratlous az the Illinois stee. Com
= pany to discharge al ,neliempIoye
u.. but their officers ard -
building contractors can gve no en-
ployment, for nobody hasmoney t
%,nves, IN buildings This's the di'
nal picture painted by q cersyman
at every " one tiod the mos
abjec, MISERY. People crowd
~ our services and beg to- iood K
!, - their children. This is our fouri
nard Winter in successful, ana "
A are no longer able to give lhefe
oled no work that We can get lot u
,aod men. We need outside hell az
we must have il, at once, nfndre(
are SUFFERING and need he.f, ~hil
to my knowledge, there arr maj
out families that may hc sand TO p act
nele ally starving. Oar ~storekeepes ha'
IN li,.,e capital aud cannot cafy II
ID as people. Every day we see It'll
children eating whatever thg G
and p,ck ~ IN our alleys, and we AN
nothing, for their number : 7
great
No wonder the county aSe', :
perintendeut OF charity, fears ore
icine riots # we have any klhd Q .
news weather.
ctr, CHARITY begins At home, ord
no, .o;e We devote our means 70 te
Il,i OF Ln.lands warts IN lndi
as ought TO fiji the empty >iomaciS
,lldl> our own ioor>teps. 1ue sil'a'i
l,lip. IN the United States is not so BAL
.. or. 1t is III I@n,lla, but Ii l. bad ciou5l
, the awaken interest IL the caIsesoi
Flee. uhlle we are mitigating their efe'
ever Ii we haze any blood ~ our n
+. fad ve 9AuulI wake It orr u2>ines
need discover wh, a social system W
,o;lle euaiie> one faulty 10 t"roW S-2f
away on a uall and a supper Sot!
thousands OF other tts:.lat'> e1l'
deserving 10 stlngGlc VITA 81!
:, ion the whole Year runnu