Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-04
Out of Work.

There are always thousands seeking
employment in every great city-thls
one ospecially-and many more at this
season than at ohers. They may generally
be classified as follows:
ing;
2. Those who can do something, but
nothing that any ono wants TO pay
them for doing;
3. Those who are not willing to do
what they can do and might find to do,
but will only work at something lighter,
more gentcel, and better paid;
4. Those who insist Oh staying where
there is no work for them, instead Of
seeking it where it might be found.
This last-named class is very large,
very miserable, and quite uudeserving
of sympathy or pity. If one were TO
SO blubbering about that be had tished
tor pearls in a Long Island pond or dug
for gold in the South Jersey sands
throughout the last six months, yet had
not realized one cent from the proceeds,
people would reasonably ask what right
lie kad to squander his time on such a
hopeless folly; yet day by day we hear
this story: 81 came TO New York III
search of clerkship-have looked for
one intently for three months-have not
yet found an opening-have spent all
my money and pawned my spare clothes
wont you lend me money TO get away
with ?" What right has one who acts
thus madly to help or sympathy? What
right had he to idle away genial months
in evidently hopeless quest of employ
ment in an oyercrowded pursuit, when
lie might have found work in week if
he had chosen to do such as was needed,
instead Of persisting in q vain quest OF
that which was not?
There is not man or woman too many
in the world, and not one more than
might have work, if be or she would
seek it Alright. Though this is the dull
season, yet there is still work to be had
But short time since planters were in
New Orleans hiring stout laborers (white)
TO work on sugar estates Tor S45 pei
month and board. That is high rate
but there ale tens of thousands of mere
diggers now grading new railroad tracks
at Slt to 50 per day all over our coun
try. Men are wanted to cut timber il
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Mir.
nesota, and the South chOpping cord
wood is just beginning in the vicinity o
most railroads; ditching and draining
were never more active than now, anC
a good deal of building Cr repairing il
in progress all over the country. Herr
and there, work stops and men are dis
charged; as the premium on gold de
clines, nearly every thing else is sol'
cheaper, and wages share the downward
tendency but there is still work for thos
who can do and will seek it Alright.
But here is the difficulty. Too man,
> initiate the drunken vagabond hired t
dig potatoes, who, reproved for not dc
ing so, managed to hiccough out, "If yo
want your potatoes dug, just fetch 'el
onl l amt going to run all oyer tn
lot after them" They squat down i
! great cities till they overcrowd then
and then grumble that work is SO scare
S and rents SO high-both their own tault
Here are scores of servant-girls applyin
to the Labor Bureau for places, bul
. when offered them few miles in tn
I. country, turning away abruptly, saying
~ won't leave the city" Had they bee
born here, this would not seem SO irri
tional and infatuated.
We object to this crowding into citie
} that it tends inevitably to the degradi
n ton OF labor. The employer and IL
q employed should stand on footing
Is perfect equality SO far as obligation
concerned. A. wants BIS work;