The Elbert County tribune., 1904-10-27
DISTRESsFUL TIMES
~HARDoHiPs THAT FOLLOWED
oEMOCRACY's SUCCESS.
Lesson that Should BE Held in Vivid
Remembrance So that a Repetition
OF Industrial Disaster May Be
Averted.

Hc'1tiCahA I'll MINI Gil, 1910. I1dThtu the De
ginning OF the most distressful times
ever kaswn 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-
rtical power to the Democratic party in
both the administrative and legislative
oranches OF the government. In ex-
change Tor THE confidence and power thus
gwen Ut, the Democratic party gave,
WITHIN SIX months, the working people
oil the country the most frightful dose of
general calamity 1t had ever experienced.
Within less than one year after the in
uustlsai WORKERS hhd ueclued, IN Noyem-
Der OF 1877, not to let well enough alone.
prosperity had set like the sun, there
wing . y,st ,r,,y 81 ,,or,,,to,.o1 -,
- a"ny y. unenipo!su men
ana STARVATION ana misery reigned among
tens Of thousands of previously well to
do
nv,
The suddenness and completeness with
which this terrible change in 1893 was
wrou.,ht i'm tho Fortunes er tho An,sr;ca,,
, - - y, ~ n
peoPie Unfinished ieariuly otter lesson.
But it is a lesson that it is better for
~. IN hoLt Il, .-;.;1 .or.,,t.,,. ~. III.
W " ''is Aeine.",anee Ut inns
Tune rather than lenrn it all over again
by taking another dose of Democracy
sa.roh th.S.,,,,,, ~ a.. - -.
$500. eliiouE" t"e nie' VI Amos,
my ituuliiR newspaper IN tile lnlteu
States during the four winters following
the Dapocrat;c sr,,uars ~ teno 1904
100 IN ,eon summers ol 1910, loo4'
1850 ana 1880 would snow grlpmc 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 marty with dire,.t resnonsil,;l-
ity for the fearful suffering OF labor
was arIopted nv the Ifn;,, Labor CInh
of Chicaeo. and was printed in the news
papers December 10 1So3.
From IN. MIDI. =, Tho ros. ,-o.,.-.,,.
ern that the people of the United STATES
have ever known, we are suddenly sub
w eca a, ~ 10 s no., nepens o. DESPAIR. IN our
thing with starvation and cold, We are not
alone In this; from every point OF the com
Pass IN our Iair lann comes the wall OF
and cirIdren Never hefore in the hiStnr,
of orr country has there been so many
men women and children dependent on the
never 80 many factories idle: never so many
attempts to reduce wages For these cal
s stahas tnere Is cause To- which we were,
we now tbo-oncb du ,,dnrs,anh' put wnieh
ciate: The suicidal policy OF free trade
, when Srove, Cleveland at lts head pro
understood by the working people. and un-
less we, onae are most interested In ITS
IN trumpet tones that nolicy win he nnpphad
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.
1893 in the following language:
in the name of the homeless wan
derer, in this desert of stone and steel.
that wayfarer whose wol6sh 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. 1 welcome you to the city, whose
motto rs. i will.
A Terre Haute, Ind. telegram of De-
cember IL to the Associated Press said:
At meeting OF the Citizens Relief
Committee this afternoon, the subcommit-
tees appointed to make canvass of the
unemployed in Terre Haate reported by
wards, showing nearly loo men out of
work.
An Associated Press telegram from
Boston, Dectsmber IL. said: "A oircu-
=" ."s =" ihhuiofos ny the
associations Tor the unemployed. assert
ing that $1,000 workmen, having as many
persons dependent upon them, are unable
to ma employment, and asking that no
rent De required OF such until they are
empioyed Another appeal, addressed to
sne cftiDens OF Boston, asks them to see
thaf the city provides work. A move
hiehe Is on 1914 1or a procession of the
W. On Ine common anu meet
'Ns ." aneaii ihlii next luesday-
sleeping in the City Hail
lChcago Inter Ocean, Dec. ID, 1909 |
Inat contingent of 1.-The army of the