Show prosperity IS HERE EDITOR clovy CLOVE of provo and a great anany any other brainless republican I 1 editors throughout the country have recently written al a great many brilliant editorials on the return of prosperity but according to the new york world there are idle workmen or mechanics in philadelphia and ana including the coal miners who adeon a strike ke in the keystone state there jare are unemployed within the confines of that state in the city of buffalo new york there are unemployed laborers and ana wm J taggart business agent of the united trades and labor council of erie county who stumped the state for mckinley last year says that times have grown worse steadily during the year and I 1 do not know of a single branch of the trades in which there is albiom in many trades there has been a great reduction of wages the reports from indianapolis show idle workmen in that city and to in the hoosier state the business situation is unimproved in st louis as there are to unemployed in that city san francisco contains to unemployed men five thousand idle and hungry workmen are walking the streets of new haven conn and is the number of unemployed in the state wages have been reduced cent and never was there greater depression in bai business mess than now merchants are offering goods for almost nothing and find few buyers crime insanity and pauperism have increased the jails and prisons are full to overflowing the state prison can hold no more statistics show that 75 per 1 cen cent t of the causes are an traceable to lack of employment and the army of tramps in connecticut now number 2800 in boston and massachusetts there are an unemployed workmen and their condition i is 8 worse than it has been since the panic of 1873 if the mckinley editorial ec lit orial writers and shouters can extract any comfort from reading this glowing report PO rt of returning prosperity we are perfectly willing to mark an X right up by the rooster and let it go at that |