The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-15
New York Journal, who writes his paper
from Canton. Mr.. Creelman says:

AfO1n Canton. Ar. CTeclfn1n says: a.tz1s& Is.
Ordinarily, Canton IS a very pros
porous town. Butt:here J., small content
ment In Canton now. Mayor Rice says
that hundreds of families in the town
are suffering for want Of food and cloth
ing Times are getting harder. In the
three months Of the present year the
mayor has given away in charity out OF
nus private purse more than his years
saiary. He says that most Of the facto-
rles are cutting down wages and reduc-
ing their forces. Many OF them are not
operating more than three days week.
Those that run make no profits"
The reader will bear IN mind that Can
ton is the home Of President Mckinley,
and in the rich and populous State Of
Ohio, and it Will be well to bear in mind
also that Canton Is not an exception.
Mr.. Creelman says further:
TT Is impossible to exaggerate the
distress In this State. Farms have ac-
tually ehrunk to half their value, and
| figures show that ever since Mr.. McI<in-
1cy's election values have shrunk not less
than 10 per cent. The depression is so
terrible that the loan institutions are
holding thousands of overdue mortgages,
which they do not dare TO foreclose,
because prices have Shrunk so low that
| farming land frequently fails to bring
the price Of the mortgage at auction.
From the figures already in my pos
session, l am satisfied that the list of
assignments. foreclosures and transfers
of property for debt since the beginning
| Of this Republican year Of prosperity in
! Ohio averages more than half a million
| Of dollars for each OF the counties, and
| that the total for the State IS more than
| fifty million dollars
Hear also what Colonel Alfred. Lewis,
of PittsburG, Pa, has TO say on the CON
dillon Of affairs in his section:
! Mckinley was the advance agen; OF
prosperity. Mckinley, SO he said,
! would start the manufactures OF the
country rather than the mints' I am
| here In the hotbcd or manufacturing
| and labor, and bear witness how well
| he has not kept his word.
II find work scarce and pay small, and
many idle men. No concern is crowded
! with work. Some have no work at all,
In the best and bris1est pay is small. for
there are two workmen to ever one days
| work. Times among the work
people, as Well as among their employers,
are worse today than they were prior to
the election last November; worse than
| on the 4th Of March, when the advance
agent OF prosperity was inaugurated
worse, indeed, than month ago, and
alfaira are on the decline. They grow
bad. not better, as this is written"
| 1t will not do for MI. Secretary Bliss to
| attempt to glinsay these things. when
every honest man who knows any .lt,lrrg
at all about the condition Of the coun-
try knows full well that they are 80.
If the people in Canton, the Prcsi-
dents home, are suffering for bread, as
| lis shown to be fact and when il l.;
| equally as bad in hundreds Of other
cities of the Union, why does Mr. Bliss
say that Wannamaker bases his state
ments upon the conditions which pre-
vail In Philadelphia alone if he did not
seek to mislead the people. Mr.. Sec
rotary Bliss knows that his position is
false one and the country knows it
also