The Advocate and news., 1898-08-17

lHt OHlCdBO llAueS-I1eTdlu quotes,
approvingly of course, this paragraph
from the Pittsburg Dispatch: "a large
land credit concern, which holds more
than $1,000, 900 Of mortgages on Western
farms, reports that it has only $4,000
to fOrecIose this season. This latter
straw is directly indicative of the course
Of the breeze Of prosperity. It is small
wonder that popOcracy, free silver and
the calamity howl are at discount on
the prairies at this time" You see, the
Dispatch thinks it is doing just the
proper thing And it is really not so far
out of the road. If Populism, etc., are
at discount out here just now it is
because the thing Is getting so popular
that there is an over-production The
POpulists have been tried in Kansas and
Nebraska at the very time of this pros
perity, and they have given eminent sat-
isfaction to the decent citizen. Since
the Dispatch and the Times-Herald ad-
NIT the prosperity to be consistent with
their usual policy they must blame the
Populist administrations of Kansas and
Nebraska for the large share of 1t in
these States There is nothing wrong in
the Dispatch's "stray," for it is a matter
Of course that the breeze Of prosperity
should blow into the Office Of the large
land credit concern. The Calamity
howler" does not deny the existence of
prosperity He is very glad to see it
come, but he is most vigorously opposed
to letting the man who does the least
work have the lions share of it, He
is for a fair division, and he hOwls
against allowing the exploiter and the
least deserving class to gather in the
fruits of prosperity while the farmer, the
wage-earner and the other workers do
the labor and profit not. And it appears
to us that the Times Herald is a trifle
that containing the quotation from the
Dispatch there is this prosperity item,
set in double column display, with a
border, and headed "StOle for Starving
Wife and Babe:
Suffering himself from hunger and mad
dened by the pitiful condition OF his starv-
ing wife and newborn baby, Harold Hum
| phrey attempted to better his position
through highway robbery. Now he stands
| bound over to the criminal court, and his
| family Is in worse situation than ever be-
| fore. Unless the hand of the law Is soft
ened and some pitying friend intervenes to
| find work for the unfortunate man his wife
has nothing but death or the poorhouse be-
| fore her. Humphrey was brought into JUS
| tlce Mahoneys court yesterday morning
! to answer for the crime committed the
evening before.
"I did not care for myself" he said. "I
could stand 1t all right. But when
thought OF my poor wife and infant child at
| home their suffering drove me wild. They
had not tasted food for three days l
could not get work, so / decided to rob,
| steal, or do most anything to procure FOOD
for my wife and child"
Mrs. Rudolph Milde, of 20S9 North Her.
| mitage avenue, was assaulted by Hum
| phrey while walking in Ashland avenue
near Graceland, at o'clock Tuesday even
| ing. The desperate man seized her by the
| throat and wrested her purse, which con-
tanned a couple of dollars, out OF her hand.
In his attempt to escape he was unsuc-
cessful Policeman Houlihan, summoned
by the womans screams, arrested him.
Humphreys wife, a weak, careWorn Wo-
man, with an emaciated baby In her arms,
| was at court when the prisoner was
/ brought up. Look at them" the prisoner
said after admitting his guilt THAT wo-
man starved in this big town for three
/ days. InaJ DaDy mas scarcely any HE leIC
| in it's little body. have tried every shop
| in town to get work. Yesterday went out
to Lake View, but found nothing. On the
way back grew desperate and robbed this
lady. did not intend to hurt her." Hum
| phrey's home was in a miserably furnished
home in the rear of IS Cass street.
The story is made the most prOmi-
nent feature of the seventh page Of the
Times Herald of August IL, 1885, An
editorial on the opposite page says that
"the industrial sky was never clearer
or brighter" but surely it was overcast
and cheerless enough for Humphrey and
his starving wife. But the Times-Her-
aid and the Dispatch belong to a class
that is opposed to the substitution Of a
more equitable system. With them bus