Evening journal., 1898-02-11
HANDY AND PROSPERITY
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"By their fruits ye shall know them
(Applause)
(Here the hammer fell.)


man. | come from a state just across |
the bay from the great State OF New |
Jersey; and the same newspapers that |
circulate in New Jersey circulate in my |
state-the Philadelphia daily papers /
know something about the arguments
with which the honest farmers OF New
Jersey, the honest farmers and working
people OF Delaware were appealed to In |
order to induce them to give this YER
dict which the distinguished gentleman
from New Jersey has referred to. They
were appealed to with arguments which
promised them such an era Of golden
prosperity as they had never known be-
fore. They did give an overwhelming
majority for the advance agent OF
prosperity" and, Mr.. Chairman, II
there be any certainty I'm the political
signs of the times, they are deeply and
truly repenting in sackcloth and ashes
the verdict that they gave. CApplause
on the Democratic side.)
l have in my hand, Mr.. Chairman a
letter dated January 30, from one OF
my constituents. telling of a visit he
recently madeto cityOf Philadelphia
and what he saw there of this glorious
prosperity" which we have been hear
ing about. The other day when / was
speaking about prosperity one OF the
representatives on this floor from the
city OF Philadelphia interrupted me to
notify me that there were 10000 more
men at work in Pennsylvania than
were at work one year ago. This letter
came to me as strang commentary on
that statement Here is what this gen
tlcman wrote me:
! was i'm Philadelphia the next day
Our people go much to Philadelphia,
it is their great shopping place
/ was I'm Philadelphia the next day af
ter Secretary Gage spoke In the Acad-
cmy of Music when ne said there were
millions more men at work now than
there were a year ago. counted on
Cherry street between seventh and
Notice with what particularly he
points out the place; there is internal
evidence of truth In that letter.
counted on cherry street between Sew
cntn and Eighth stretes COINS up "a little
street $40 men, and still collecting more,
in line tQ get Q bowl of SOUP. They would
let Ia eight at "a time. rhis was about
ll.3O o'clock "a. ln. You man Judge how
long II took them an to get their soup.
They an looked like American born
the same number on Brown street be-
tween Third and Fourth streets. 1 sup
post the same spectacle may be observed
az other SOUP houses In Philadelphia.
This can hc seen amy day there al the
places | have named.
Mr.. Chairman, / will give the name
and address OF the writer-Wllliam b.
Wilmer, No coo Lombard street, VIII
mington. On this floor representatives
from Philadelphia talk to us
about the great prosperity in
Philadelphia; yet visitors to that city
can see 240 men in line at a single
place waiting to receive their charity
soup.
The chairman. The time of the gen.
tleman has expired.
Mr.. Handy. ! ask unanimous con-
sent that my time be extended five min
utes.
There was no objection.
Mr.. Handy. Mr.. Chairman. ] do not
want to attack the city of Philadelphia
The lot of her citizens is the lot of my
own people. / want to read from dis
patch which appeared on January % in
the Washington Times from Whining
ton, Del;
Almost half the people In the little towr
of New Castle are on the brink of star
VatiOn.
Mr.. Chairman, "the little town O.
New Castle" having five OF six thou
sand population, is Within ten miles o
my home 1t is beautiful and ancien
little city, situated on the Delawar,
river with good water and railroad
communication; with an intelligent
industrious, and honest people.
The telegram continues;
New Castle has 6.0O0 inhabitants. ncarl,
three-fourths OF whom depend on the
Delaware Iron Mills for a living. Tw,
weeks previous TO Christmas the work.
shut down, leaving the families of so
men without employment The situation
rs becoming alarming, as the idle men arr
becoming desperate.
Mr.. Chairman, ! want to read "a clip
ping from a paper published nearby
The Morning News of Wilmington
Del, the leading Republican newspape
in my state, published within six mile
of New Castle, contained the following
on January %:
There has not been such distress in New
Castle for many years as at the presen
time.
This is the Dlngley bill time, the Nc
Kinley prosperity" time; yet this Re
publican newspaper, printed almost ol
the spot. says that in the little town o
ew Castle there has not been such dis
tress for many years as at the presen
time
There are families by The dozen tina
have felt the pangs Of hunger. The Della
ware Iron Works are stin idle Las
week the night force at the Woolen mill
was discharged and on Saturday mum
Der Of weaVers were laid off The wcaV
ers will so on half time. All the churche
have been taxed beyond their strength
and the hcnchccnt societies have bee
called upon to go down deep into thci
treasures to relieve the existing distress
One case Is reported where a respectabl
woman asked her ncighbors not TO throw
the potato peelings in the slop: that sh
would like 10 have them for food 1911
men are Obliged 10 go on less than hal
food.
Mr. Chairman, more recent newspa
per articles coming under my eye hav
given details how reporters in that cit.
visited working peoples houses. am
those articles have given the names @
hungry men and women; telling abcu
their lhi.dren without focd, withou
fre. These people are forced 10 go on