The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-06-18
STARTLING SUN TOTAL
Assignments, Foreclosures and Property
Transfers in Ohio.

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his great fight for the dictatorship
of Ohio politics, and that before the
end of the month he will be in su-
preme control of the republican
state organization. Nothing but a
democratic victory at the polls can
prevent him from being the most
powerful and irresistible man in his
party since the death of Mr.. Blaine
His friends and lieutenants are car
rying all before them.
1t is political miracle, like the
nomination of Mr.. Mckinley. Sen
ator Foraker has been completely
our-generaled. The influence OF
: the president and of the republican
national committee has been too
much for him, yet what a situation
confronts the new Warwick.
OHIO FILLED WITH DISTRESS.
Cries of industrial and CONNER
cial distress 60 up from every coun-
ty in Ohio. The whole common
, wealth is prostrate. In spite of the
: absolute certainty that the tariff bill
will become a law within a few
weeks, the times are growing worse
t instead of better. Everybody sees
: that the new tariff will help the
sugar, trust and kindred forms ol
combined and rapacious corporate
wealth, which are already powerful
enough to write the laws and die
, tate to the president, but nobody
sees how the agriculture, industry
or commerce of Ohio is to be helped
1t is impossible to exaggerate the
distress in this state. Farms have
actually shrunk to half their value,
and figures show that since Mr..
McKinley's election values have
shrunk not less than 10 per cent.
The depression is so terrible that the
loan institutions are holding thous-
and of overdue mortgages, which
they do not dare to foreclose, be-
cause prices have sunk so low that
farming land frequently fails to
bring the price of the mortgage at
auction.
A STARTLING SUN TOTAL.
From the figures already in my
possession, | 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 dollars for
each of the counties, and that the
total for the state is more than $50,
600, 600. | give in this Dispatch
the official figures, so far as they
are obtainable, for President Nc
Kinley's county.
But shocking as they may be, they
only family shadow the real situa-
ton. Wages are being cut down in
all directions, factories are running
only part of the time and usually
with reduced forces. Thousands of
idle workiagmen join with the ruined
farmers in their cry for the prosperi-
ty which was promised. The free
silver movement is increasing by
leaps and bounds. Everybody
knows it. Nobody denies it.
HARD TINES FELT AT CANTON.
| was at Canton to-day and walked
the very spot where hundreds of
thousands OF workingmen heard
Mr.. Mckinley proclaim from the
wooden stage erected in front of his !,
house that the defeat of Bryan
would reopen the closed factories,
raise wages, give everybody work,
restore the days Of plenty and Sc
,urity to the farmers and give the
merchant a chance to live. | talked ..
With many representative citizens,
md they all told the same story
lard times, suffering, bankruptcy. L
"There has never been anythingIC
ike this in Ohio before" said 4
Mayor Rice of Canton. "ThereIt Il
ire hundreds of families in Canton I
o-day who are suffering for want of "a
ood and clothing. Things are get .
ing worse. In three months thisIi
year ! have spent out of my private
)urse for food and clothing to give .
AWAY more than my years salary as |;
mayor.
"The factories are cutting down.
wages and reducing their forces.
Many OF them are not Operatingl
more than three days week most
# them are running without profit.
Farm land that has been worth a
dollars an acre cannot bel
old for $50 an acre. 1t is almost
to borrow money on real r
state, because prices sink and sink =
md sink.
The farmers and working menareI;,
leserting the republican partyli;
Wholesale. The republicans can !
,of hide fba aviIancao ~ l;otraool,,