The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-01-21

! Whether be wrote those verses or better
Pnes, what does it matter The old mus;-
elan could onl y stand before the door and
mutter show cold, how cold it is"
Has the public any right to expect verses
while there are worthy people starving?
Everybody remembers the story of the
lawyer who went to his clients prison cell
and said, in amazement:
"Wby, my dear sir, they cannot put you
IN prison."
And the clients reply snS
'n' Wy S1 ny t atkr sir; t5ev haze done 60"
Worthy men and women do become
poor, do suffer, do even commit suicide.
What right has saphead Of father TO
try to make bis Ounce Of boy musician
or philosopher, when be has ever before him
the fact that there are too many profession
al men now in the world? Is be not Grim
inalT Does he not deserve to be put in
cell and be fed on bread and water for the
remainder Of bis natural existence?
The Baltimore San Of January 80. 1885,.
contains an advertisement, the prelude 10
which may cause smile on the face of mauy
commercial men. Here is the advertise.
ment, cut from the third page Of an old
copy Of that number Of the paper
HELP NE OR / SINK-A stranger in a
- strange city l have made every effort to
obtain work-an thing That will give me bread.
Rebsns, and in many csses insultr have caused
me almost TO despair cannot Deg and can
not get employment. am Southern. Of ex.
cellent family and good character and education:
one who has been been in better circum stances
but was shipWrecktd BY the war. am a Young
man with good certificates of character. So
briefly, &c. have never been in business but
will do my best for any one who will employ
me. Will not some one who has been in nv
situation lend me a helping hand Address
P. T., Sun Office. It.
In the winter of 1866, the PHILADELPHIA
Evening Bulletin contained the following
written BY responsible clergyman, well
known in Pbihdelphia; thoroughly
good man, who occupies bis time chiefly in
to such cases
To the Editor Of the Evening Bulletin.
SIR: | must ask You to publish this case. II
is here at my side. am listening TO Il taIking
with it, and looking Of IT, She 10 the wife of a
solder-two years married-who served hs
country three years. Both are Americans
she a native Of Massachusetts,, nice intelli-
gent, smiahle lady he native Of the State Of
New York, a very Rice, intelligent and retired
man. He has been here two or three times
and with extreme mOdesty made known their
wants, which | was always glad to be able to |
'upply. This cold morning his wife comes they |
ire at room keeping in the northeastern Dart |
# the city, and tells me her husband il ashamed
come again. 1es,t there was extreme mod sty
M painful bashfulress in that manly face
very time he came. TIE feelings OF gen Ie-
nan reduced to want by no fault Of his own
~ pure love OF country, and his yourg, ami able
wife leaning On him for hello which he cannot
endeT, are not to be written; they cannot be
lie cannot obtain employment; this will &C
cunt for their extreme want cannot write
lie feelings Of my own heart when talking this
morning with this lady. Ny treasury was ex-
austed more than 800, but vet here was be-
ore me case whose bashful, fearful silence
'as eloquence irresistible. 1t was supplied
'ell uppled-supplied in faith that God would
'rovlde. She was confirmed in the Epis
opal Church, of which she and her husband
re members; but having had lately to pawn
early All her clothing to sustain life aud pay
ent, he has not been able to attend church
- cpAiiN blthN- ny Contributions sent
, this family through "City Pastor" will be
iven to them. Cry PAsroR
lS4l Lombard Street
The first duty Of any man is to see
nat be has home of bis own which moth
* can deprive him Of. His next duty is !
} see that every other man is similarly sit
ated. Until this is accomplished all po-
teal reforms will be attended with more
: less Of evil. He is a poor general who
ould send forth an army to fight without
when ammunition was plenty.
reedOm and the ballot belong by right TO .
very man and woman. So do food and
since it is easier and more i
.otitable to grant to every enc food and
elter than to give the ballot, it is won :
n the government don't see the point Of r
ner. 1t has been curiOusly estimated that it Q
II cost four billions, two, hundred and fifty t
illiOns of dollars to give the ballot to :
omen. The Sixteeth Amendment DiU T
me. No thinking man can doubt that, ,
d no generous man will grumble at the :
pense. But for half that sum every poor :
an and woman in the country could be !
pplied with a comfortable house and lot, a
1ich would yield the donors a handsome Il