Public Unrest in Congress’s Mail
A special from Washington to the Chicago Tribune under date of January 24 declares that there has never been a time “when the people were writing so many letters about public affairs to the members of Congress. . . . Nobody ever saw the like of it. A member from a Nebraska district received recently 103 letters in one day from seventeen states. . . . Private secretaries, clerks, and stenographers are working day and night trying to keep up with the correspondence of the people. Post-offices at Senate and House have been crowded to their capacity. The phenomenon is set down by everybody as significant of something of the gravest political moment, but nobody is positive what it all means. An item in the Boston Herald declares that Representative Weeks received 400 letters in one day and 350 the next day.” These letters are on various questions,—high prices of food, suggested changes in postal rates, and other things which are interesting the people. In all this movement the Socialist organs are finding great hope. They are all typical of the unrest preceding the coming of the King as foretold in the Word of God.