Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-29

operations. Similar announcements
come from ali directions. The unem-
ployed laborers Of New York have held
several meetir IS in the park, at which
foolish and infammatory speeches have
been uttered, but have signed rea-
sonable petition to the city govern
ment asking that they may be employed
in the prosecution of various contem-
plated city improvements. At the BOS-
ton soup house, just opened in the Pub
lie garden, eighty pounds of meat are
boiled in fifty gallons Of water, and the
liquor, thickened with rice and crushed
barley, makes q very hearty soup. 1t
is supplied between 10 and to all who
apply, in quantities from q pint to
gallon. Neither the Boston nor New
York soup houses are opened on Sun
day, when we suppose the poor are ex-
pected to live on spiritual food and
the fortunate to exercise only faith and
hope, reservirg charity for week days.
With the anonymous liberal contribu-
ton Of $500 to the poor Of Hartford the
donor sent the appropriate and just
sentiment:
CHARITY has been aptly compared tc
the person who from his lamp has
given light to his neighbor. His own
shines none the less
Horace Greeley and the New York
Tribune were not the only ones calling
attention to the distress of those times.
The following news item appeared in
the Springfield Republican of Jan. 10,
1855: u
He CRY FOR BREAD AND WORK.
Tie committee of the unemployed
wOrkingmen of New York have adj
dressed a second memorial to the city
government, calling urgently for relief
measures and threatening that unless
something is done ''they will be direct
ly compelled to throw off all RESPONSE
bility as to the results now looming,
like the dense precursor of hurricane
of death, over this unhappy city" They
state-exaggeratingt the fact, we trust
that there are in New York 10000
ablebodied men, $4,000 women and 10,-
900 children out of employment. upon
whose labor are dependent $4,000 9th
ers making a melancholy aggregate Of
1850 suffering more or less severely
from restitution, having disposed OF
their small savings and in many cases
of their furniture TO supply their press
ing daily need. To feed this host of
the perishing, at least 10 cents worth
of food per day each is required, which
will demand a daily expenditure of
S19,50O The bestowments Of public
and private charity, liberal as they are,
are totally inadequate to supply the
vital wants of the suffering working
classes, and now deep murmurings are
heard all around the cherries hearth
stones OF proud, stern hearted men,
who would prefer death to the crouch
ing supplications of repulsed beggar.
The workingmen ask the city govern
ment to furnish labor to the poor, and
the government has already responded
by employing some 80 men in taking
down and removing the ruins Of the
burned city hall. The men agreed that
new set Of $50 should be employed
every day until all applicants had en-
joyed the privilege of days labor.
A person writing of the numberless
applications for work says:
ITO try one of them 1 asked her-a
stout, heavy girl Of twelve, to whom
was contemplating the donation of a
copper-how long she would work
washing my floor and stairs for three
cent piece, to which she responded,
with a burst of nature, All day, sir,
and all winter at the same price,"