Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-06-23
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY. go. JUNE %. 1897
Queer Prosperity.

The st. Louis Post-Dispatch re-
minds the Globe Democrat that i'll its
issue OF October 10 it declared that
Immediately after the election bus
mess boom like that which started
with the resumption Of gold pay
ments in 1879 will set in" Another
leading republican editor said: @The
people await the night Of November
3 for the wires to send Il thrill through
the country that will set in motion the
millions of men now idle" How we're
these prophecies and promises fulfill
ed?
For few weeks after election, al
though the wave Of prosperity did not
appear. employers. self ,deluded but
expectant, made no cuts in wages and
kept their forces Of men. Then find
ing that trade did not revive, that
capital did not come forth from it's
hiding places, and that confidence"
had not been restored. numbers OF
employers and corporations began
the process of reducing wages and
curtailing expenses that is inevitable
under the gold standard, and the pro-
cess has been going on ever since.
Here are few of the reductions re-
ported, and that which are enumer
ated by the st-Dispatch. showing
"how prosperity came"
Beginning promptly with the new
year the following firms cut wages or
shut down their works; in many cases
forcing their employees into strikes;
Illinois Steel company, cut wages;
Horn Coal company, DuQuoin, H.,
cut wages; Mueller. & Henman's Shoe
company. cut wages; Maple Hill
mines, Barton, o, strike; Mas
sillon O., mines, cut
wages; Niedringhans rolling mills,
ST. Louis, cut wages; American rattan
works, cut wages; Bridge & Beach,
stovemakers. reduced number of en-
ployes and cut wages; Tudor iron
mills, East st. Louis shut down; Pan
handle NINE, Pittsburgh mining dis
trict, belonging to Mark Hanna, cut
wages to starvation point; keystone
rolling mill and other plants at Pitts
burgh. in which Mark Hanna is inter-
ested, cut wages; Old Dominion Cop.
per company, Globe, A. T., shut down;
Keb mines, Ottumwa, Ia; imported
colored miners to take the
places Of white strikers; Belleville
nail mills. cut wages; Westinghouse
Air Brake company, cut wages; Ten.
nessees Coal and Iron company. cut
wages: Rockford. ILL.,, copper shops,
cut wages, forcing lockout; jour
neyman horse shoers, Of st. Louis, on
strike for scale wages; building
trades workers of Chicago. forced to
strike; 1000 miners at Jelico, X. {.
forced to strike; $500 mining in Ten.
nessee struck against reduction
Thurmond mines, West Virginia, cut
down wages Of 5000 miners; 22O0t
tailcrs in New York forced to strike
against starvation wages; Sandoval
ILL.,, mines closed indefinitely.
Besides this, on January %, the pc
lice and charity organizations report
ed 10000 men idle in st. Louis and q
least $4,000 in dire need of food
clothing and fuel. The Illinois legis
lature took official notice recently O
the fact that the coal miners. OF tn,
state were starving and ordered al
investigation. And every few day
some poor wretch has fallen out o
the ranks Of the destitute and de
spuir,nR by ending his own life.
This is how prosperity came as TIL
E. result Of McKinley's election. VIVA
would the people not give for anothe
chance at the "Adcance Agent O
Prosperity" - Illinois State Regis
ter.