The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-26
DISTRESSFUL TIMES
HARDSHiPS THAT FOLLOWED
DEMOCRACY'S SUCCESS.
Lesson that Should BE Held In Vivid
RENE mbrance So that a Repetition
of Industrial Disaster May Be
Averted.

The Inauguration of Democratic
President in March, 1893, marked the be-
ginning of the most distressful times
ever known in this country.
In the preceding November the major
fly of the nations working people had
seen fit to try the experiment of better
ing their condition through intrusting po-
itical power to the Democratic party in
both the administrative and legislative
branches of the government. In ex-
change for the confidence and power thus
given it, the Democratic party gave,
within six months. the working people
of the country the most frightful dose of
general calamity it had ever experienced
Within less than one year after the in
dustriai workers had decided, in Novem-
Der Of 1892, not to let wen enough alone,
prosperity had set like the sun, there
was a vast army of unemployed men,
and starvation and misery reigned among
tens of thousands of previously we'll to
do.
The suddenness and completeness with
which this terrible change in 1893 was
wrought in the fortunes of the American
people furnished fearfully bitter lesson
But it is lesson that it is better for
us to hold in vivid remembrance at this
time rather than learn it all over again
by taking another dose of Democracy.
A search through the files of almost
any leading newspaper in the United
States during the four winters following
the Democratic summers of 1898, 1894
1895 and 1896 would show graphic ac-
counts of the heartrending and awful
want that followed the closing of the
mills, the wrecking of banks, and the
destruction of confidence by the Demo-
cratic party.
Testimony from Union Labor.
The following resolution charging the
Democratic party with direct responsible
ity for the fearful suffering Of labor,
was adopted by the Union Labor Club
of Chicago, and was printed in the news
papers December 10, 1893:
From the midst of the most prosperous
era that the people Of the United States
have ever known. we are suddenly sub
own city 100000 men and women are bat
ting with starvation and cold We are not
aone IN this from every point Of the CON-
woe from freezing men and starving women
and children. Never before in the history
men, women and children dependent on the
cold charities Of the world for subsistence;
never SO many factories idle; never so many
attempts to reduce wages. For these cal
antilles there is a cause to which we were
hitherto careless and Indifferent, but which
ciate. The suicidal policy of free trade
which Grover Cleveland at its head pro-
poses to establish regardless Of the suffer
Ing it mag engender. Is now thoroughly
understood by the working people, and I'M
less we, that are most interested in it's
preservation, awake ourselves and speak
In trumpet tones that policy will be pushed
to the utmost extremity.
w. c. Pomeroy, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, well
coined the thirteenth annual convention
to the Chicago City Hall December II,
1888 in the following language:
I'm the name of the homeless wan
derer, in this desert Of stone and steel,
that wayfarer whose wolfsh hunger
hounds him ever onward, whose sleepless
eyes wildly seek shelter and slumber,
whose black despair grows darker and
darker every hour, whose heart grows
faint for want of food, whose shivering,
shrunken form grows sick at the sight
of his own shrunken shadow, whose soul
is dead. welcome you to the city, whose
motto is, Il will"
A Terre Haute, Ind, telegram of De-
cember Ii to the Associated Press said:
AT meeting Of the Citizens Relief
Committee this afternoon, the subcommt- |
tees appointed to make canvass of the |
unemployed in Terre Haute reported by |
wards, showing nearly 1900 men out Of |
work" |
An Associated Press telegram from |
Boston, December ID, said: "A circu- |
lar was issued to-day to landlords by the |
associations for the unemployed, assert
ing that $4,000 workmen, having as many |
persons dependent upon them, are unable |
to find employment and asking that no
rent be required of such until they are
employed. Another appeal, addressed to
the citizens of Boston, asks them to see
that the city provides work. A move
ant 20 f~~NA o.,
unemployed ON the Common, and a meet
ing in Faneuil Hall next Tuesday"
Sleeping In the City Hall.
Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. Is, 1907
That contingent Of ''the army of the
unemployed" which has found shelter for
few nights in the corridors of the City
Hall returned to it's old quarters again
last night, bringing along many recruits.
The night before, forty or more of the
dodgers thought to regale themselves with
sandwiches, but were set upon by their
less fortunate and famished comrades,
and bread riot was precipitated
winch called forth police officers to quell
t. Notwithstanding this ruction, the
cn.ilea and starving applicant was not
refused lodging room last night He
came up 10 police headquarters obviously,
but was admitted.
At 10 O'Clock the long first-foor cor
ridor from Washington to Randolph
street was covered with men and bows.
fast asleep on the cold, damp pave
ment. Men were half reclining on the
stairways, and the poor wretches ON the
floor had others standing over and about
them, envious of the place upon which
they lay, cramped, drawn up and crowd
ed by others who shared their miser
able bed.
Last night Mrs Helen NJ Cougar
thought to give Editor Stead a lesson i'm
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