The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-12
Parents Are Out of Work and
 Cannot Care for Them
SITUATION IS ALARMING
These Children Have to Go to School in Chicago Many Times Without Food for a Whole Day Owing
 to Hard Times.

ing in Chicago-among the causes. lack of employment of parents. and the constant increase in the cost of living without corresponding in- crease in wages.
 This is the startling announcement made in the daily newspapers of Chi cago and which has brought gloom and consternation to the managers of the republican national committee in this city. They have been preaching pros perity and the full dinner pail" through the continuance of the repub- lican party in power and the mainten- ance of high tariff. The republican newspapers of Chicago without en- ception have given this republican claim the lie direct In publishing with big headlines the report of the special committee appointed to investi- gate the conditions in public schools, they show that thousands of children are suffering from hunger and actually dying from starvation in the great in- dustrial and commercial city of Onl- cago
 Here are the headlines running across three columns of the paper from the Chicago Inter Ocean (republican) HUNGER MENACES 10000
 PUPILS IN CITY SCHOOLS;
 MANY BEG REFUSE TO EAT. Startling Conditions in Chicago Shown
 by Report of Investigating Commit
 tee Who Find Starvation Has Many
 Victims.
 5000 Have No Meal in Morning. Body Asks Food for Children, Some of
 Whom Have Forgotten Taste of But.
 ter, Living on Dry Crusts Earned by
 Heroism of Mothers Who Go to Bed
 Fasting.
 The Tribune heads it's article: HUNGER STALKING
 IN CITY SCHOOLS. Five Thousand Pupils Don't Know What Full Meal Means and 10000
 Others are Underfed.
 The Record Herald und. -RepJ heads it's story with:
 THOUSANDS OF PUPILS SUFFER-
 FROM HUNGER.
 The Inter Ocean begins the horrible story telling of the starving of the little ones in the midst of republican prosperity with the following:
 Five thousand children often go to to bed supperless in order that their chill hool children of Chicago are under fed and habitually hungry. Mothers go to bed in order that their children may dren may have food in the morning. Half clad and crying children have been found on the streets begging dead fowls and rotten fruit to eat.
 These are some of the statements in the report on indigent children flfd with the school anagement commit tee of the board of educa tion.
 The Tribune (Rep) says:
 Many wage earning moth CTS have in- comes of not more than 80 cents a day.
 Summarizing the causes which pro- duce the conditions of hunger the same paper cites Hack of employment" and the constant increase in the cost of living without a corresponding increase in wages" as the chief reasons for the horrors
 Among numerous instances the Trib- une cites the following
 In Armour school district-Fathe out of work mother sick; not scrap of food in the house; five children three half naked and one garbed only an undershirt, crying for bread. For three days they had lived on tea-no bread. milk or sugar.
 In Jenner sch ool district-One mother supports family of four children on s250 a week sewing pants.
 In Drummond school district-Family of seven. No food in the house. Father out of work. Went to lake to commit suicide, but changed his mind and com mitted misdemeanor in order to be locked up and get prison meal
 In Southwestern district-Family of six found hungry, almost crazed by lack of food Had lived five days on bread and water, and last loaf had been eaten for breakfast
 These are only few of the many which the Tribune cites out of the tn ousands reported
 During the present republican panic hungry children have not even been provided with free soup houses.
 Every day there is new concrete argument Tn 1aNOr or guaranteeing bank deposits The latest is the case of William G. Cornwell of J. s. Bache & Co.,. Wall street, New York, who made a strong speech at the bankers convention in Denver against the pro- posed guarantee of depositors Those who heard MT. Cornwell at Denver would have been converted to the guar antee idea if they had known that MT. Cornwelrs experience as a banker af- forded one of the strongest reasohns why depositors who put their money in banks sh ould be protected.
 w. G. Cornwell was the president of the City. National bank of Buffalo, N Y, which failed on June 2S 1901 be- cause Cornwell extended too much credit to the directors of his bank
 Those bankers who have never failed and who are standing against this guarantee of bank deposits, are also opposed to postal savings banks They are making mistake, for the people will have one or the other, and the guarantee of deposits leaves to private initiative the development of the bank ing business and keeps the money at home The postal savings bank would destroy private initiative and would take all the money to the big cen ters.
 The Kalamazoo speech of Hon. John w. Kern. democratic candidate for the vice presidency, in which he arragned MT. Roosevelt for nullifying the civil service laws has apparently borne fruit. 1t appears that the President feeling
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