The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-27
DISTRESSFUL TIM S
AAROSHiPS THAT FOLLOWED
peMOCRACY'S SUCCESS,
r.on that Should he Held in Vivid
Remembrance So that Repetition
If Industrial Disaster MAY BE
Ayertcu.

| NM, inauguration OF a Democratic
President in March. 1888. marked the be-
| Ginning Of the most distressful times
over known in this country
| In the preceding November the ma jor-
;ty of the nations working people had
seen lit 10 try the experiment of better
,np their condition through intrustng po-
| ttical power to the Democratic party in
both The administrative and legislative
hr.n,.1cs of the government. In eX-
| change for the confidence and power thus
| giyeu it, the Democratic party gave,
within six months, the working people
| at the country the most frghtful dose of
general calamity it had ever experienced
| Within less than one year after the III
Aus,rm workers had decided. in \ovem-
her of 1892. not to let we'll enough alone
orosperity had set like the sun there
was a vast army of unemployed men,
and starvation and misery reigned among
lens of thousands of previously we'll to
do.
The snldenness and completeness with
which this terrible change in 1893 was
wrought in the fortunes of the American
people furnished a fearfuly bitter lesson
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 1893. 1894
1898 and 1896 would show graphic ac
counts of the heartrending and awful
81, al
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
merged to the depths OF despair In our
own city 100000 men and women are bat
thing with starvation and cold. We are not
alone In this; from every point OF the com
pass In our fair land comes the wall Of
woe from freezing men and starving women
and Children Never before in the history
OF our country has there been so many
men, women and children dependent on the
cold charities OF the world for subsst ence
never so many factories idle: never so many
attempts to reduce wages. For these cal
antilles there Is cause to which we were
hitherto careless and Indifferent. but which
we now thoroughly understand and appre-
clate The suicidal policy OF free trade
which Grover Cleveland at It's head pro-
poses to establish regardless of the suffer
ing 1t may engender. is now thoroughly
understood by the working people and I'M
,' ess We mat are most Interested in its
nd l.
IN trumpet tones that policy will be pushed
70 the utmost extremity
W t. Pomeroy, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor. wei
coined the thirteenth annual convention
60 the Chicago City Hall Oecember T..
1879 in the following language:
In the name of the homeless wan
oeref, III this desert of stone and steel,
uat wayfarer whose wolhsh hunger
'ouids lhln ever onward, whose sleepless
<les wildly seek shelter and slumber,
nose black despair grows darker and
lurhef every hour, whose heart grows
amt Tor want of food. whose shivering.
'uhAeh form grows sick at the sight
MS own shrunken shadow, whose soul
uead, l welcome you to the city, whose
motto is, L will"
Ierre Haute, Ind. telegram of De
ehber Ii to the Associated Press said !:
AZ meeting of the Citizens Relief
oiiihlttee this afternoon the subcommit-
appointed to make Il canvass of the
eupioyed IN Terre Haute reported by
a'ds, showing nearly 1,5OO men out OF
work" ' ''' VI
nn associated Press telegram from
'oStoh, December 10, said: "A oirc,,-
~ was issued to-day to landlords by the
IONS FOR the unemployed, assert
mat oo,oOO workmen, having as many
ons dependent upon them, are unable
a'u employment, and asking that no
oe required of such until they are
p'oyed' Another appeal. addressed to
H.. ~ehs or Boston, asks them to see
'ne city provides work. A move
- Oh loot for procession of the
a., "p'oyed ON the Common, and meet
" '"heui! Hall next Tuesday,
,o Nieepinx in the City Hall.
nTUn41cago Inter Ocean. Dec. ID. 19O3.)
contingent of 1.-The army of the
ll'yed' which has found shelter for
IN " nlehts in the corridors of the City
=. .etnrned to it's old quarters again
fha "snt. bringing along many recruits
"'she before. forty or more of the
~ Gaought to regale themselves with
but were set upon by their
NE ortunate and famished comrades,
Ib a bread riot was precipitated
'" Gaiied forth police officers to quel
HIM Not withstanding this ruction. the
fnee and starving applicant was not
use lodging room last night He
/. up TO police headquarters obviously.
:, was admitted.
das ~ o'clock the long frst-hoor cor
r.s. rom Washington to Randolph
., vas covered with men and boys.
an. sleep on the cold, damp pave
49, . Men were half reclining on the
nr 'ays, and the poor wretches on the
on, 3hu others standing over and about
or ehVlous of the place upon which
h. Ay cramped. drawn up, and crowd
II. others who shared their miser-
a. ,nas' night Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar
snt to give Editor Stead a lesson in
s,n p,aniem of unemployed and proposed
. Union Of 1000 sandwiches among
his dodgers at police headquarters.
"'S forbidden. as a repetition of the
ois nights riot was feared. and such