Show T HE SPECTACLE or of from to 1 people ople blocking the street In i front of a New York department store to apply for or posItions Is de decidedly Instructive ve Hu Has the east en entered entered f upon a period of depression deprea lon that there should be such a clamor for fot places It Would seem Hem so BU for surely If New fl York Yorks workers worker were were hap happily and ad V Vas steadily employed such a mob as that de described in ht the dispatches I would hardly ha have e been possible I often change chance their positions for tor little reason and for no reason but they do not change In such large bodies I Iu u as t t reported report The truth Is that I many Working people In the east are suffering the pinch of poverty Numer lumer oils au mills mUIs and nd factories have cut wages materially others other are lUe curtaIling their output which means tee he same ame thing and some me are cloId closing altogether The fact that th this I Is I pre year ac accounts accounts counts for fer some ot of the depression but not for all ot of It Hu Has the prosperity wave receded rece entire entirely Another notable feature of the sit a tion lies In the tact fact that the cost coet or of does not On the con contrary contrary all 11 the necessaries of life Ufe cost more mosey moReY every err da day The p purchasing power or of a dollar I is not as great by 15 or ze 20 per cent nt today as it was WIlS a year or two p ago If I wages as continue to go godown down and aad prices to go CO up where ere will the working people end and There Thero must be an adjustment and that ver very short shortly ly b or great suffering cannot |