The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-25
THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF
DEMOCRATIC FREE TRADE"


of the disasters that commenced a
few months after the Inauguration of
Mr.. Cleveland and continued until the
country was in a state of extreme de-
preston, and until the election of Nc
Kinley.
July IS, 1898: Denver, Colo, four
banks close their doors and there are
runs on other financial institutions.
July 10: More banks close their
doors.
July %: Two more bank failures in
Milwaukee and runs on many other
places.
July "a: More bank failures in the
west.
July 26: New York; two stock ex-
change firms fail.
July q: Ten banks suspend, most
of them northwestern. Other bust
ness failures reported.
July %: More failures and suspen-
sions, including nine banks in the west
and one in Kentucky.
August 1: Collapse of the Chicago
provision deal. Many failures of COM
mission houses. Great excitement on
the board of trade.
August s.: The Chemical bank, one
of the strongest in the country, is I'M
able to fill it's weekly order for small
currency.
August =: Madison Square bank
suspends.
August II: Much excitement on east
side of New York among Hebrew lab
orers. Police called out.
August %: Encounter between an
archists and socialists averted by pO-
lice in New York.
August %: Meeting of anarchists
broken up by police.
August 3d. Kansas coal miners
stree ended with nothing gained.
January Is, 1894: Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle announces his in
, tention to issue bonds.
January II: The Secretary of the
Treasury offers $5O,0O0,000 loan for
public subscription, according to his
announced intentions.
January "a: Strike in Ohio of 49,
900 miners.
| January q: A mob of foreign min
ers destroy property at Brantville,
Pa, and elsewhere.
February 16: Many New York silk
factories close on account of strike.
| February 1S: In Ohio all the mines
in the Masillion district closed by
strike.
February 20: In Boston a riotous
assemblage of unemployed workmen
dispersed by police.
March 2: Six thousand miners in
Jackson county, Ohio, out of employ
ment.
Paterson, N. j.: General strike
among the silk weavers.
March 3: In West Virginia striking
miners burn the railroad bridge and
commit other lawless acts.
March 10: At Paterson, N. j., riot
GUS proceeding on the part of the
striking silk weavers.
March II: In Colorado Governor
Waite orders state troops to Cripple
Creek to suppress mining troubles.
March 20: In Boston large body OF
unemployed workmen march to the
state house and demand employment
March "a: A movement inaugurated
in various parts of the northern
states, known as the Army of the
Commonwealth, Coxeyites, ETC., pro
posed marching to Washington and
demanding help at the hands of con
gress.
March 81: Coxeyites are source OF
terror to certain western towns upon
which they quarter themselves.
April 2: In Chicago 5000 plumbers,
painters, etc., go on strike.
| April 3: In South Carolina the
governor declares martial law in all
the cities of the state.
April 4: In Pennsylvania 6 men are
killed and wounded in coke riots.
April 10: The general council of
the United Mine Workers orders a
strike affecting 5000 men.
April 16: Strike on the Great
Northern spreads to the Northern Pa
cifc.
April 20: In Omaha a mob seizes
train of box cars and attempts to de-
port Kelly's industrial army, but the
army refuses to so.
April Fl: About $4,000 miners stop
work in sympathy with the coke strik-
ers in Pennsylvania.
April %: Arrival of division of
the Coxey army at Washington.
A division of the Coxeyites arrested