The sun., 1898-01-31
Letters From The People.
r. TIE EDIroR or TIE Stv:.


Yonr nenc columns on Friday and yc,
tcr.!ay contained columns. such hurrihi,
new. of the condition ii some eight r
mirc hundred families in New Castle
Del, tia, ice, impe.Ici t. b.g -nor'
-p2c" IL your v"laahlr I1rcf t. review
thr-e facts
Tie pcop.r "ho are how on liz very,
of starvation, sDr.." - whom may haY,
already died ~ nay in tie near iGlHr
die lrrIn Ill" ,ffrrt- II -'ir. lrivafiDre Il.
they arr nn" rMdr,r.ug, are not Niat ar,
pritrar. y tr.Hn.i traupsinr h"gEar-. n.
are tnry l"'n" who are unwilling II
work. tt.t ar" lr"p," who do work wh-m
W.rl caI hn iad and Il" Gouht a." a,
~aVIl. ~ 'uc average families ui til.
e DVItt|. lIn'n your cniumn. / s"r that
Ia" cht'!'1r.y in 'iin'd ritjZ NJ, Trustee,
u, tic Ip"r ait pvyanlzr4 charities arv
aI..n! Ill rv way tlcy know how and
u-jng al tie tmIde at iIrir command l..
relieve III" SIit'rng and if ppS-ibi" pre-
vent ,taryatipn but i -"rlu- t. me that
peop.r "ho har" enough sympathy in
thor uc&rtS - help tigs" sufferers ought
t. have ,ris" enough IL their heads to
=" that the great army Of working
p'np.o al over 4H,riOa air practically
IN Ii" lc~r verge Ol starvation even
when al Hrk: Tor thcs" people in New
ta-t." Lay" been ont Of work only a
-h"rr time. and ~. know ti.al ct her
ImliI- and factories IT III" country often
find themselves in tie -ane condition
that IT," Delaware Iron Works are now
o. t,I.tt u nj
~and working people III the New Eng
laHd states are now out Oi work because
the employees were forced by cympet-
tlon and paUprr labor in thc South and
- called oyerprOdUctiOu t. reduce wages,
which were already bpiow what wus
necessary T. !! bare existence, to = still
lower level
We are told that the people working
III cotton mills in the southern States
g"t s,l.l lower wages than people in the
Northern and Eastern States. 50 they,
too, must be starving slowly, by inches
as It were, while they work; for any
sane man or woman know. that no
man can feed himself and family at the
rate Of one cent per meal per head;
Mr.. John : Ros.cil, Of the Associated
Charities, to til" contrary withstand
Ino but that Is What the present rate oi
wage means.
\ man working at the present in
creased tate Oi wages now being paid in
the J v. x y. X. Il. shops must, if hc
iIas l.lully Of five to feed and cothe,
feed them on meals that cost not over
nns t" one and & bali cents each for the
wage he gets viii not justify Il more
oXp"n-IV" menu.
II yuu knew a dog who daily caught
many rabIt~, lut whose lean, hollow |
eyed, hungry lork showed that he was
not getting enough to cat, what would !
you think? WUuld it require a Solo |
mon IT, see that the poor dog was getting
fpbDcd II We see farmers burning corn .
Tor fuel for want Of coal and feeding |
"hcat t. pigs because there is no sale for |
It,, yet naked Ior want pi clothing, living
III hoErIs, 1rczjng and coal miners ont
'l "u1 X starving splnnors and wcayers
starving for the very things the farmer
cannot s".l II any price, and railroad
men being constantly laid off for want Of
haNUn1 to DO. does it require u
Solomon to tell IL that something j.
wrong in the construction of Our social
>rsirnH &ud j. il not our sacred duty |
amt especially the duty Of those people .
"hp cal th"usoIyc. Christians to In
rHl where this wrong is and find Il rem
'dF for it? il one man, woman or child
III New Cast!" StarVCs or dies OF disease
brought on by hunger and exposure to