| Show written for this paper GREAT BUT shortsighted SHORT SIGHTED CHICAGO CHICAGO nov 8 1893 public aliment in chicago on the me silver question as ae in the daby pa pets per and toe the current talk of businessmen la 18 decidedly adverse to bl bt as M understood lu in the west they look upon the free coinage propaganda in the went as a merely selfish effort oo on the part of the silver kluge kings to getan get an increased price for pig silver JIJI not de deigning to dignify the white metal by calling it bullion they hey see bee no reason whatever for putting silver on a basis different from that of aror copper or aluminium they refuse utterly to regard as the cause of tile the present depression of silver as compared with gold they settle the quest question lob of price on the score of demand and supply nut not recognizing the tact act that to is the absolute condition of demand for either metal As money and that thai without with mt tile the moaby ue ties of ot otther either ther metal its price would sink ink to the level of baser metals metal they refuse to recognize the fact that thai the elimination of silver reduces by one half the value ot of real money and that debts are doubled and prices reduced ir ic a corresponding ratio by operation of economic law they are indifferent to the fact that increases the burden or life upon those who wao are least able to hour bear the load joad that is already sinking them beneath the plane waste the sunlight of the commonest and oh cheap set eat blessings ble bles ainge of life can rotch reach them it is to 90 them thai a pernicious and surreptitious ald g ld mono the economic disorders dis oraen whereby the wealth of the country to is being most moet inequitably distributed the rich growing rich r and the poor sink ing into deeper and more hopeless hupel esc poverty there Is ili a cause for all this abnormal and public sentiment in obi chi gagu there to is probably no BO city io in thi the world so BO thoroughly absorbed abe orbed in sod anil possessed by its if own civic ideate to A genuine his hib city to is the alpha allpha and omega the beginning and the end and the ideal and the real the macrocosm and the micro microcosm coom his hie ideas of heaven beaven sod and eternity could not go 0 behrnd on apotheosized chicago I 1 in n some borne chicagoans seem broad and magnanimous but iu most essential charite they are provincial sod narrow big as chicago is it Is only a tiny fragment of the whole and chicagoans are OO conscious LISCiOUS mainly of the fragment while the great world to them is ia but the tail to their own Chi chicago cao comet at washington public sentiment la Is a libbl com composes ot of numberless numbed number lers epe rays rayes each flowing from some integral lote Kral section of the great Republic republicans and even from all quarters of 01 the globe in such an n atmosphere the mind is constantly enlarged nl arged in the knowledge knowl euge of and sympathy ym pathy with the country and the world in chicago all la in action rather than mon reflection corporate grat grai dour deur la Is the am grand ld ideal to those who are capable of conceiving it and personal aggrandizement great wealth sod and sky towering ug buildings are the motive power and inspiration to all personal ambition chicago has many r urlau t but these are utterly valueless except at as they serve to make the wealth or of the country tributary to this great corn com megial center she has some great men but these come in fur for recognition duly as they paint and guild the civic edid ce she has become af great monetary power the depot depository atory of lm immerse wealth but this wealth with all the economic interests to which it to is related is construed only in its relation to local welfare wei wo fare the cou try as a whole is not dot considered the south and west the true sources of the ciao prosperity ire are completely complete jy ignored I 1 the formation of chicago public sentiment it ik was stated in oue one of the pers papers here as coming from lyman J gage the most prominent baukal bauaner of the city that chicago Is the greatest absorber foreign of Ito reign capital of any city in n tap the united ste states ikpe this to is largely a 1 city of foreign burn born people and ro its greatness la 6 largely duo due to for foreign forelli elgi in lie its monetary 11 e s flows through 4 an U I cord which ties lie it f in U y and jd 1 pa policy lk y to the molle money marts 4 manota ky in interest eres of foreign ladda in so air lar as ill all thys abs tbs J is rue of chicago a she t e 1 fails ails io to be aa an american 84 city baity and id 6 rp represent american life I 1 aou P ingress in ili the bolter better sr an i truer anse ia sa it is well tor for ler her t to soon scout tae be s surer it olen men of tle the west debt anil south loutfi tor for h are un american sho she ob its the words and inspirations of an aidlen alfeu dAl civilization kation in chicago the people who advocate the money of the constitution and seek to undo the world wine treachery that a great wrong upon the debtor clause classes and pro dubats ducats ot of the country are called 41 sliver lunatics anil and 11 cranks P 1 and to read their papers one would associate such parties with anarchy and in their most offensive form all this is out but treasur treasuring Jug u up 1 wrath against be dayot day 0 o wrath no 0 man with american and foresight can feel otherwise than that a great evolution in and economical affairs is is going forward right bight here bore in chicago the be tempest is ie gathering classes are constantly growing wider apart the streams ot of wealth are flowing into the coff coffers ere of a few by thousands and wil lions while the great bulk of the population are sinking lower and lower iulo the depths where we is destitute of all comfort oy decency independence and self respect the hundreds ol of cheap lodging houses give shelt shelter erand and miserable mlee rable beds to thousands addlene and tone of thousands for 10 to 25 cents per night the cheap restaurants furnish a miserable provender for 5 to 10 cents young men by the thousand gather into thence dens some ot of them very large buildings and while away the dreary hours with inspired games amidst fetid clouds of tobacco smoke on some of the streets within a few minu minutes teal 4 walk of the city hall in hueu day the young women sometimes very young may be seen at the windows beckoning tu to the passers by too toe me ju u I 1 can but remember a handsome you young jag girl perhaps sigh eighteen teen years of age as lair fair a model for a silver status statue as ada rehan behan with a face more than iban comely aud aid as yet unmarked by the and gross nes with which nature brands the angel in iii the woman comans le face as its womanliness is aban abandoned dined ahe stood i upon the stops steps of a decent looking residence and asked attention for a me moment As it was but 8 3 in the afternoon a stroller could well afford to pause an instant this handsome creature who seemed frood sod aud pitted for or the better and nobler part ul 1 I life simply wanted a small sum of money very small one would think and in enumerating the compensations ions that were at her disposal one would be most surprise at the fact that no blush ot shame and reproach should mantle her fair that no tests tears should well up into those charming eyes that no forgotten otten prayer of t babyhood should rahe f from rom her heart and choke her utter alce no doubtless the demon of want had bad long since beaten down the tender safeguards oi of the womanly hi i n stinoe and oboe ushered upon the low plans plane of merely mercenary and heartless necessity tue the sweeter and gentler notes 0 off i the woman life ae were hushed to silence iid aad the girl took cook her place in tae ane cruel eibel life 1118 abbul her summoning to her assi etan ce physical charms which i I 1 although east cast in the mold of au beauty bad in her fir experience i n datil 0 only n IV a ag 4 ro rf and mercenary value tb the ut of one to is that of lot many thousands angs here liera intili cago and for all all the years that havo have past and throughout g great lecat ditlea of the past sou ano present such w wholesale holp asle wreck of virtu virdue 1 e Is largely due t to 0 one great rest cause of hamilin 1341 misfortune si no the ft of man to man the he inequality of df social benefits the unequal augill of 61 tie t e Maj material manorial orial 61 blessings os ank of ills the of home to cope with tue tile overreaching I 1 and grasping gras capability ut of aibe others ra here in chicago everything la Is ru run under a high pressure it is not thought but bui action that characterizes characterize the community whatever the con summation of city life its result will be attained here herb more rapidly than elsewhere elue where for the public pulse beats quicker toe lever ever is in always alway moo on and for lull full eighteen hurs ot the eweul four the turmoil anu and L train strain of the buoy streets fiends up a roar like the bellowing of a volcano soon boon there will wili be a few lords anu and potentates here of the commercial guild each of these will have under them a lew few the middle classes ola ses will more and mure more disappear in the vast army of poverty stricken serfs whose lives wilt will become more aud and more a synonym of cheapness what a glorious thing it will be when the mud sills bills ot of chicago can live jive on say aay ten to fifteen cents per day thin thill will deepen antl and quicken the current of wealth that shall flow into the capacious vaults vau if of the lord lings linge dived will build costlier palaces and taller buildings aid the beggars ben gars that lie at bli bb gates will be 60 multiplied a chiusand thi usand fold such id ia the tendency of the present order of things aid this evil tendency receives a mighty impulse from gold it is as true as the sun io in its course that the contest tor for silver and a broader basis of real money is a struggle against a money arl aristocracy atoo a struggle in of a broader and truer humanity in our social in aud the forces that resist it are the same bame inhumanity of man to man that has fought human emancipation and progress from rum the begin ning C R |
