Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-07-24

sentative Rainey, the senior member
of the democratic delegation from Iili-
nois, in the house, has fired broad
side at the republican calamity liars
in the house and put some facts up to
them which no one has had the temer.
ity to attempt to answer. He charges
them with an effort to create a feeling
of business depression throughout the
country where none exists, purely for
political advantage. Incidentally, he
has taken occasion to call attention to
some events which happened during
the good old republican days of 1907,
when hundreds of banks were obliged
to issue scrip" in lieu of money, in
violation of law, and when man with
money in the bank could not draw it
out upon his own check.
In his ringing speech the Illinois
representative said:
"The Congressional Record at the
present time bristles every day with
unpatriotic prophecies of business dis
aster made by republican members of
this house, evidently willing and anx.
ious to profit politically at the expense
Of the p ,sperity cf his country; and
these utterances are widely applaud
ed by republicans and progressives
alike on that side of the house. We
are just recovering from the republi-
can panic Of 1907, and throughout the
land the evidence of revival is abund.
ant. You gentlemen can not bring
about period of business disaster. no
matter how hard you try.
"Lest we forget let me tell the
gentlemen on that side some of the
things that happened in 1908, after
the bank panic of 1907, for which we
can charge the republican party with
responsibility. There was nothing
psychological about conditions in 1907
and 1908.
'In Chicago on February II, 1908,
the papers announced that the total
number of unemployed were estimated
by the Federation of Labor at 100000,
and about that date a warning was
issued to craftsmen to keep away from
the city of Chicago.
"On April 8, 1908, 700 Bulgarans
in Chicago appealed to the city and
county authorities for aid for deporta-
ton to their own country.
"In Buffalo, on the Goth of January,
1908, 500 men besieged the superin-
tendent of the poor for food. Four
men were taken to the hospital suf-
fering from starvation.
In Camden, N. j., on the 10th of
August, 1908. riot followed the ap-
plication of 1900 men for less than
400 jobs advertised by the Joseph
Campbell Co.
"In Denver, on the Goth of March,
1908, more than 200 Bulgarians petit
toned the government for employment
or aid to return to Bulgaria
"In Detroit, on January 2S, 1908, |
more than 1000 men marched to the
city hall to solicit work from the
mayor
"In Granite City, ILL.,, on April 25,
1908, SO men knelt before various
churches, pleading for work, and one
man killed himself because he failed
to obtain work.
an New York school children num-
bering 5000 mobbed the restaurant of
Adolph Lorber to obtain the free meals
offered by Mr.. Lorber on February 13,
1908.
"In New York ON March Is, 1908,
the city government was urged by the
Central Federated Labor Union to let
contracts for subways to furnish work
for 100000 unemployed; and on March
%, 1908, there was demonstration in
New York in favor of armed revolu-
tion made by 10000 unemployed, sing
ing the Marseillaise and other in
citing songs as they marched through
the streets. A bomb was thrown at
the police by an anarchist during this
demonstration.
"On February 10, 1908, in Philadel-
phia, total of $4,000 idle men were
reported by the labor unions in the
Kensington district; and on February
20, 1908, in Philadelphia, a riot follow
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