The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-23
Hunger's Night Parade.

are written such column forms each
night at o'clock, children. many of
them, and women with pinched careworn
faces that haunt you for blocks after you
have passed them. Just across narrow
street from the richest, most fashionable
retail store in the world, in the greatest
American city, every night, week after
week, month after month, at IL O'Clock,
the doors of great bakery are thrown
open. and sometimes 200, sometimes 900,
sometimes SOC. men pass in line to take a
dole of bread. ! have watched them on
summer nights, when the blocks around
seemed some vast and strange picnic
ground, as OH curb and step men sat eat
ing dry bread with the sauce oil hunger.
have watched them again when the cold
winds of autumn swept along the street,
and the line. as it waited, chung close to
the shelter of the towering walls; and
again when the winters snow fell like a
white winding-slIeet, and the waiting
wretches slluddered and crouched.
The l'dead- beat and the 'rounder'
were there beyond question; but there
we're others Men whom the world had
gone against men whom week or
two weeks of sickness had thrown out OF
d JODy iiCl WHOSC tIllii SHUT QOWn anu
never started men whose boss died and
the business was abandoned, men for
whose trades there don't seem to be any
call any more anyhow'-all there, and all
hungry.
Faith. and don't see, indeed, why a
man should be waiting here in the cold at
this hour of the night if he isn't hungry,
said pinched faced Irishman of whom |
asked questions
Each man with his generous cutting oil
bread, they turn away from the door.
some to hurry away, perhaps to carry it TO
others who can bear hunger less we'll than
they, some hiding the bread under their
coats as they pass the glare Of the street
lights, and others eating already, tearing
the loaf into great wolfish nouthfuls
Nor are these alone hungry. Across
the street stood Waterman of street
railway. and with him. too, i talked He
too had known what it was to walk the
streets of New York. day after day. with
out job and with the wolf night by
night bowling nearer and nearer the door.
But colld never stand in that line,' he
said. I could starve first yes, would
steal sooner than do that
He represented another patti of the great
army of the unfed, usually the recruits
who are too proud to let their hunger be
known.
Nor do these classes contain them ali.
Besides these. Ill the proud great cities Of
America. there are fathers who, night
cot the last crnn,b e,;i, ,nsa,; ,,f's 4
mothers who 90 hungry that their chill.
dren may be fed; children who even thus
aie unie', " poorly iea ana thousands O
horest rother tI,o, - ,,s i,,,. ~ ~ w
embrace vice rather than endure famine
Besides them there are thousands still
VINO .oli LOT q wage thar Keeps starvation
If emrlovars ard a.
ed with burdens of debts and bounded by
the sleepless furies of shard times, ever
WINE tqe prihting-presses OF the govern
how oraat ;s ,rosrar;,, - 'Ae psop'>
Does any one know wbv all this is ; Re
patient. will tell you some of the
reasons,
Inc ABOVE quotation IS IRON leafie'
circulated oy Inc prohibition party, anf
the reasons the writer gives as the
cause OF TINS frighttul picture OF oul
CHRISTIAN civilization are all traeeable te
the demon of drink or the liqnor evil
Miss Willard. as ardent nrohib;t;o,
,.~l EN-. .,l..,-,-.
W. % '.e vas i'nai'y eAho"ie''se'
lhat drink IS not the cause OF poverty
more than poverty is the cause of drink
Poverty. drunkenness crime DEGRADED
~, - ,,a,a.,,o.a a:a
''a' any "o'a''i'o' "'sease' INSANITY
are Almost all results OF the ripened frui
of great evil which is fundamental il
our system of DELEGATED oovernn,ert
r, Or
'"e Peop,s az "e.seu oii .'o'i TUG power
70 control and shape their government
An intermediate, delegated power con
fined to verv small nercenta.e of the
1870 ~. 49, :. - -,
peopie 'na' piaesn ~ 'heil nan's .hs
entire sovereign power of this great
nation. That small number clothed with
The sovere;optv of oovernrert bas fo,,er
e. 80,
P'ey " TUG 'e"iP'a'ions VI Tue money
power, more cunning, more patient, more
heartless than Lucifer. This small dele
mated ro,yer bas cold 70 ,,,a .o,a o.,a.
- p - - po"e'
ALMOST every irauenise' every prerogative'
every inalienahle right Of the people
The money power has dispensed these
privileges amongst its satraps, the cor
porations, trusts. syndicates, stock gam
blers. All these act as feeders and instru-
uients OF the great money octopus. All
are under its control They gather uotir-