Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1908 — NO! NO! THIS CAN’T BE TRUE. [ARTICLE]

NO! NO! THIS CAN’T BE TRUE.

Elwood, Ind., Jan, 20—A charity organization, with the city government at its head, has been formed here to care for 165 families, known to be destitute, Already the churches have distributed something like $2,000 in food, clothing, etc., but the number of dependent families continues to increase. Under the new arrangement Wayne Leeson. B Biegel, C. Carson, and J. A. Dehority have been appointed a committee, and the city building will be kept open day and night until the factories start, that the needy may enjoy the warmth. Besides $3,000 cash was subscribed. Meanwhile, Mr. Leeson gave $250 cash and a car load of coal.' Each church will be represented on the relief by three women. The liquor dealers are preparing to rent a room and furnish free soup, bread and coffee. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 22—There will be a meeting of the Associated charities tonight to devise ways and means of giving employment to idle people here. There will be a men’s mass meeting Sunday night, according to circulars sent out this morning, at which plans will be discussed to bring the matter before Mayor John B. Boehne. There are a good many socialists here, who say they will attend the Sunday night meeting and advocate the marching of an army of the city’s unemployed to the city building on Monday morning to demand work. In Chicago 50,000 of the vast army of unemployed were going to March to the city ball Thursday and demand work. The republican administration wouldn’t allow the demonstration and with a force of 700 policemen, many of whom were mounted, succeeded in preventing the parade. One thing in particular the Republican politicians dread is the appearance of free-soup kitchens for the unemployed. The havoc the soup kitchen played with the Democratic majorities in the hard times of the early nineties was appalling. Republican orators needed only to point to them in order to prove on the spot the responsibility of the party in power. It is therefore, most distressing to observe present tendencies in New York city. The soup kitchen threatens to arrive at an early day. All the charity organizations agree that a grand rush of unemployed into New York has begun, for already these agencies are unable to meet the demands upon them by the hordes of strangers.—Springfield (Mass.,) Republican.