New school history of the United States . elf with singular prudence, self-restraint, andcourage throughout the perilous contest. 135. The panic of 1873, and the long depression of industryconsequent upon it, had thrown multitudes out of employment,reduced the wages of the operatives still employed, and caused^^^^^^^^ extensive and enduring used the pretext of this distress, swarmed through the coun-try, and resorted to threats, to violence, and to crime. Thedesignation of Trampswas given indiscriminately to thehonest and the vicious, who roved through the land seekingwork or asking charity. 1
New school history of the United States . elf with singular prudence, self-restraint, andcourage throughout the perilous contest. 135. The panic of 1873, and the long depression of industryconsequent upon it, had thrown multitudes out of employment,reduced the wages of the operatives still employed, and caused^^^^^^^^ extensive and enduring used the pretext of this distress, swarmed through the coun-try, and resorted to threats, to violence, and to crime. Thedesignation of Trampswas given indiscriminately to thehonest and the vicious, who roved through the land seekingwork or asking charity. 136. The grievous stagnation of industry engendered a bitterfeeling between employers and employed, which was especiallyvirulent against wealthy capitalists and large feeling broke out into alarming violence, and occasionedmuch destruction of property during the first summer of theHayes administration. Railroad riots, occurring almost sim-ultaneously, and apparently by concert, produced sudden con- TRAMPS AND LABOR distress. Active labor-ers could find nothingfor wiUing hands to hungered, andthirsted, and shivered ;children perished fromwant and misery. Menwandered from place toplace, and from State toState, seeking occupationand subsistence. Therewas no work for and vagrants of allsorts—a growing hordeof sturdy beggars — WADE HAMPTON. RECOINAGE OF SILVER DOLLARS, 283 sternation in the Northern and Western States. They weremost formidable in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New trains were stopped^ the railroads were torn up, the roll-ing stock overturned or demolished. The strike, and the in-terruption of travel and transportation, stretched from NewEngland to the Mississippi. The disturbances did not prevailsouth of the Potomac. The wildest lawlessness and the mostjg^^ serious mischief occurred at Pittsburg, whereI 22 Tul ^^^^^^^^ property to the amount of eight or ten^ ^ millions of dollars was destroyed. The militiawas
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