Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — BLACK LANGSHAN CHICKENS AND M. B. TURKEYS. [ARTICLE]

BLACK LANGSHAN CHICKENS AND M. B. TURKEYS.

Eggs from my prize-winning breeding pens 32 per IS; |lO per IQO. From birds that run at large, 11.25 per 15; |2 per 30; 35 per 100. Turkey eggs 50 cents each. Circulars free. WK. HERBHMAN, R. R. 1. Medaryville, Ind.

THE EMPTY “DINNER PAIL.” The following paragraphs are taken from one issue of the Chicago Tribune, a Republican paper, and they illustrate conditions in Chicago in the districts inhabited by laborers, many of them foreigners.

How it was in one place: There ate 1,099 or thereabouts who have no money and no credit. They live on a slice of bread which they get from pne friend or another. Not infrequently that friend himself is penniless. The slice of bread which he gives away spoils his meal and leaves him- half'hungry. But he gives it? anyhow. Again:

There are a thousand people here now who are without means, without a cent with which to buy their next day’s bread. They would have starved or been criminals long ago if they had not lived in this congested neighborhood among their own people. Here they are helped. They are given food. At the labor agent’s:

The office of a labor agent on Ninetieth street contained about forty people, all of whom were anxiously waiting for some news of work. Every letter that the agent opened was watched by these men with breathless attention, as if their lives huqg on the contents of that letter. As soon as the agent perused the letter and' told them there was nothing for them, the crowd went out, and inside of ten minutes another crowd of forty or fifty people were waiting for further news. A typical case of destitution: Another minute’s talk revealed that the man had not eaten that day, although it was evening. He explained that he had no one to borrow from. He had borrowed from nearly everyone he knew in the last, few months. Now his friends are looking for someone from whom to borrow a nickel or dime. Another: \

“The grocer won’t trust me any more. ' I oWe him a great deal as it is. To the butcher I have not gone for a long time. We are glad if we have enough bread. Many of the people around here have not even bread. They are simply famished.” What the groceryman said:

“Our business has fallen off from 50 to -TO per cent and there is no telling how much more it will fall within the next few weeks. During the winter months we kept on selling groceries and meats on the hook, as we always do. We had hoped that in the spring, when work started up, they would pay it up. Now, however, spring has come and there is little improvement. We were compelled, therefore, to quit selling on credit. If we were to keep on we would simply go bankrupt. With the cutting down of credit the business has been cut down enormously. People simply buy the bare necessities, such as bread, salt and matches. A herring is bought occasionally. But meat hardly is touched by a number of my customers who used to call for large meat orders daily. I don’t know what it will come to. But I simply will not sell on credit to anyone. Credit at this time would put me out of business on short notice.”

From every large city in the country come similar reports. Hundreds of thousands of men are without employment and are forced to live as best they ean. All kinds of business are affected and there seems to. be no reason for expecting conditions to improve until the panic has run its course and something has been done to restore confidence. The party in power—the Republican party—is absolutely unequal to the emergency. It has done nothing to relieve the distress its policies have brought upon the country.