The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-12-04

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ancient city Of Troy by a trick. They
made biz hollow wooden horse, filed il
with armed men, and beguIled the Trolan'
into dragging the thing into the city That
night the concealed Greeks crept forth,
opened the gates, and Troy was sacked
A wise Trojan had ia VAIN warped his
: fellow citizens to beware of the wooden
monster. Ia the famous words thus rem
dered BY Virgil
"Tineo parsos ct dOna ferentes,
Shiah may be freely translated. Il fear thes Greeks,
even when bringing gifts"
Now | greatly fear that the crafty men,
native aud foreign, who are plotting to
destroy this country, that they may be en-
riched by hlunder Of various sorts, intend
TO make Of the great American centennial
gigantic Trojan horse. filled with elements
of destruction: and to make of the Phlla
dclpha Centennial Exhibition a Pandora 5
box. full II all most dreaded evils Such
will certainly be the net results uf the Cen
tennIal. II we allow ourselves to be blinded
by gush VI cheap patriotism To- any of
the enormous wrongs that are eating rut
the heart Il our Republic. could wish
that this auniv v-rsary came ten years later.
KEEP YOUR HAND On YOUR rO,kET BOON
The PerksnItis, who according to Wendell
Phillips, have been pratIng "f honest cur
rency" with their hands m our pockets,
Sill al this next year ,whIlv busy ever
! blunderinl III all possible Naysl be scream
ing themselves red ~ the face about pa
| triotism. Washington, Jefferson, Declara-
ton If Independence Dles amy une
suppose that it is part II the programme Of
any thief or ring Of thieves q ceasc thlrv-
4 cry duriug 1870 Not much Il viii be
| the greatest year uu record for plckpockets
I Of all grades, from J. Gouid duvu. They
viii consider the American people As en-
gagged III one grand perennial Fourth Of
july celebration. and ia, Say these light
fingered gentry will circulate through the
! jubilant crowd plying their profession
Y Nil w cauti,n IA our descendants, and
whenever TIE ratrio Il shouts ~ ~, their
clarion voices Will rn4 ob'y. al others
/ IL bthoo,e, every earnest thoughtful per
son ther, fore. o. hc more Wa.chfal and
more viz ,ruus Ia opposing wrong .u 1876
! than ever before and ro remember that
| tins nation has more reason tO spend the
/ year ia SAX cloth sud ashes than III rrJoIc-
ing. For one | viii ssv that the louder
the clamor from "the foolish throat. the
more abysmal shall be my Jeremiads.
THE NIsERABLEs-
| Some a ecimens VI the dunderheads and
stony hearts who control the disabled poor
ana those unable to procure work, exhibI-
| ted themselves at a recent Convention Of
''Overseers Of the Poor" Of this state.
| Wealthy Mayor Eastman said Of tramps.
"Mr. Dutcher has set over 5000 Of those
men breaking stones IN the city of Pough-
keepsie
They do not trouble rs now. They
ange TApplauser We are turning them
away from the city in great numbers |
tell you, Sir, they were the pest q my life.
| They almost swamped me.
| You do not know Of the number Of tramps
that used to come from New York. They
came right Up here- But they do not
| trouble Us now. | tell you that in our ex-
perlments We have switched them Of. You
show them that big sledge hammer that
| Mr.. butcher makes them use, and by
| George they will 20 the other way. Ii
you want to drive the paupers out Of this
State make them labor for what they get.
Here's a Daniel come to judgment No
Reorganization of the hard times. OF Of any
human kinshiP with these miserables.
] they were nuisance t. be rid of-to be
seishly thrust into other States. The
idiot really seems to congratulate himself
on having solved the labor problem. "
No wonder the tramps passed the word
steer clear If Poughkeepsie. The really
honestly in search Of work would naturally
turn away from brute who rushed at
them saying Here you nasty pauper,
take this 20 pound sledge and do convict
work on the public road or starve You
ought to wear the striped clothes any
how
In Boston, where an attempt is making
to give trsmps decent work and treatment
the place is overflowed with men, whose
diligence is highly praised
The Tribune speaks thus of a most I'M
fortunate kind Of miserables ''Our
streets swarm with clerks out of a situation.
Statistics show that there are more suicides
in proportion to numbers among clerks
than with any other class. Employers
might reflect on that fact before reducing
their clerical force to a minimum. The
banks, too could help in the good work il
they would aid especially the small, honest
dealer
POPULAR LETTER WHITING.
amuse myself sometimes thinking how
different my letters are from those Of the
regular writers Of New York letters to the
daily papers If the other large cities. For
instance, | do not haunt the theatres,
music halls, etc. However much of inter
est may take in such places, the grea
problems Of the day press too heavily &
admit of much attention to minor matters
1t seems like iddlindwhile Rome is burn
= ing, to go to places of amusement when on'
sees chance to help the uprising of