The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-10

suffering. in New York city. the num-
bers out of employment and the rise
in the cost of living. All the news
from Europe presages starvation, riots
! and disorder. A London letter in Har-
per's Weekly gives. the following ac-
count of the situation there:
by all reports and tokens we are
in for winter Of exceptional distress.
Trade is slack and the labor market
overstocked; very general feeling
exists that England has entered the
zone OF severe commercial depression.
Taking London as a whole, the pres
ent lack Of employment, even before
the opening of November, is as great
as. If not greater than, is commonly
the case in the middle of winter. On
this the officials who administer the
poofsssaXs the secretaries and agents of
tho innumerabre~ chaEity societies, and
the officers of the Salvation arfnys rho
know the poor of London as no ulher
church knows them. seem to be IN
deplorable agreement. D.-ring the q
years that have been working here.
writes the vicar Of Piaistow, 4 have
never found SO much distress at this
time of year. have already had to
start the soup kitchen. which is not
usually opened till Christmas time.
have done so because our lady visitors
found the state OF things so bad in
the poorest districts that they begged
for something to be done to provide
food, at all events for the children
What Plaistow reports, Whitechapel,
Stepney, Poplar, Canning Tower, Hack
ney. North Kensingtnn. and indeed
every borough and parish in London
outside the fashionable residential dis
tricts confirm. I was shown the other
day bundle OF correspondence that
has recently passed between one Of the
organizing secretaries OF the Saliva
ton Army bureau aud some OF the
greatest contractors In the metropo-
lis. He had sent out letters asking
whether they could find or promise
work for unemployed workingmen. Of
the 900 replies received only one was
in any degree ssa.afactpry, or held out
the faintest hope. have no deaira to
exaggerate the conditions. but | see
at present no escape from the conclu-
sion that want and idleness are to
hold Lor don in their CHASTITY grip this
winter"
One of the most disgraceful things
that has occurred in politics for a
long time has been the long continued
absence of Secretary Shaw from his
post of duty in Washington 1t is the
first time that cabinet member has
deserted his post Of duty and spent the
whole campaign Spellbinding.
What the cheering of a crowd
amounts to was shown in the demon
stration given Judge Parker at New
ark, N. ]. In describing it, the New
York Times, very conservative paper,
said tie Newark demonstration was
pandemonium, bedlam, raving lunacy,
compared with when the Madison
Square garden affair, great as it was,
was mere hand-clapping in ladies
lyceum. Human nat re. could not Lave
kept I'D such a whir:wfnd of effort
longer than IL minutes. No national
convention, with cheers lasting from
80 to 40 minutes. could furnish the
equal of that scene Men threw them
selves around, shrieked, yelled in their
frenzied enthusiasm as Parker came
on the stage"
That is what the crowd did when
Judge Parker appeared in Newark and
then it wen. out and gave Roosevelt
an overwhelming majority.