The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
DIsTREsSFUL TINES
HAPDSHIPS THAT FOLLOWED
DEMOCRACYs SUCCESS.
Gesson that SIronid BE Held In Vivid
RENE mbrance So that a Repetition
of Industrial Disaster May BE
Averted.

hC VI "a
President in March, 1893, marked the be-
ginning of the most distressful times
ever known in this country.
In the preceding November the major
ity OF the nations working people had
seen fit to try the experiment of better
ing their condition through intrusting po-
fitical 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
dustrial workers had decided, in Novem-
Der Of 1892, not to let well enough alone,
prosperity had set like the sun, there
was a vast army OF unemployed men,
and starvation and misery reigned among
aens Of thousands Of previously well to
do.
The suddenness and completeness with
which this terrible change IN 1893 was
wrought i'm the fortunes of the American
people furnished a fearfuliy bitter lesson.
But 1t IL a lesson that it as better for
US to hold in vivid remembrance at this
time rather thar 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 summer of 1893, 1894,
1895 and 1896 would show graphic nc
counts OF the heartrending Inc 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
fay 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 I'm this; from every point Of the COM
pass In our fair land comes the wall or
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 subsistence
never SO many factories idle; never so many
attempts 60 rruurp wages. For these cal
antilles there is a cause to which we were
hitherto careless and Indifferent, but which
we now thoroughly understand and appre.
ciate. The suicidal policy Of free trade,
which Grover Cleveland at Its head pro.
poses to establish regardless Of the suffer
ing IL may ~engender, Is now thoroughly
understood by the working people. and I'M
less we, that are most Interested I'm its
preservation, awake ourselves and speak
In trumpet tones that policy will be pushed
TO the utmost extremity.
w. G. 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
bounds him ever onward, whose ~sleepless
eyes wildly seek shelter and slumbcr,
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 ID TO the Associated Press said:
AT a meeting OF the Citizens Relief
Committee TINS afternoon, the subcommit-
tees appointed TO make a canvass of the
unemployed in Terre Haute reported by
wards, showing nearly 1900 men out of
An Associated pras. 4oarr. 49,