The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
TRAMPS.
''Tramp, tramp, tramp,
Tie BOYS are marching"

when N SuferlnSS Oh Tile poor
negro called from its perpetual fount
of sympathy, lamentations beside
which Jeremiah's are tame and COM
monplace. "The times change and
we change with them" Still we
hardly expected to live TO see the
day, when the organ of the good
Deacon Richard Smith would chuckle
with delight over the idea of selling
schtte men into bondage. But that
time has come. In the recent edi-
torial to which we refer, the Gazette
says:
"The Legislature of New Hamp-
shire at its late session passed a very
severe law in regard to them 1.-THE
tramps). For merely begging, any
Justice of the Peace is authorized to
put them to hard labor at the county
or town farm for six months. Ifthey
cannot be proftably employed in
these institutions they are to be
hired out to work for any citizen acho
may choose to bid for their services.
If the vagrant has illegal settlement
in any town, the Justice is not bound
to send him there untH he has earn
ed money en- 9ugh to pay the expenses
Of removal. When the prisoner has
been guilty of any offence against
person or property, he IS liable to
still heavier punishment"
1t is no implied approval the Ga
zette gives to this rugged policy.
How quickly the bondholders' cham
pion forgets humanity and becomes
the the poor mans scourge. "Who
bids higher for this poor, whitehead
ed, old tramp's services. He was a
soldier in the wal of 1912, and has a
constitution made vigorous by the
exposures of his early campaigns.
Fair warning, gentlemen, sale posi-
tive, the old fellow asked for a crust
of bread and a cup of cold water, the
crime has been clearly proven, he is
regularly convicted by a justice of
the Peace. He is of the regular old
Anglo Saxon stock, his father vas a
revolutionary soldier-it is a shame
to see him sell at this price-going,
going, gone. Farmer Brown gets his
services for the next six months for
ten dollars. Get out of the way old
man, 1 must sell this crippled soldier
next" Now kind reader is not this
a beautiful spectacle? New Hamp-
shire leads off in this new role ofsell.
ing poor white men, and for what?
"What has the gray haired prisoner
done?
Has murder stained his hands witt
gore?
Not so, his CRIMES a fouler one,
COP MADE THE OLD MAN POOR"
Almost one-fifth of a century o
misrule has passed since the last sui
len echo, Of the last gun of the great
conflict, died away. AL this tim'
the dominant party has been impos
ing taxes which would have crushed
any nation of. hardly less than inf
mite resources. 1t has all the time
and is now, boasting of its statesman
ship, its purity, its love Of humanity
and having reduced to poverty the
great mass of its workingmen, it,
great organ, the Cincinnati Gazette
delights in the idea of putting it
sohite Uictims upon the auction block
Pause, laboring men, and ask seri
ously whittier are you drifting. Yo1
know too well, how from year to yea
the faithless promises of this class Q
politicians have like Dead Sea ap
Piles turned to ashes upon your lips
= Look around your homes. Have yo1
:, been able to gather there more of tn,
= comforts of life? Has your hard tot
, brought you better recompense a
the long years have drifted past
The stern logic of bitter ~experienc
teaches palmer political truths tina.
the cant of all the windy demagogue
who ever frothed in defamation VI
on the stump.
Z Farmers of Preble county, wer
Z times as hard with you when we ha
. sixteen hundred millions of dollar
d aloat in the north as they have bee
= with eight hundred millions afoa
{ over the whole country? Nations
bankers and bondholders tell 70
, money is plenty. Aye, so is gold i
;, the glittering quartz can of til
Rocky Mountains, and you a uti
" iZe the one about as well as the othe
. under the present financial system
This humanitarian party proposes t
!, contract the finances still more. j
Il wiU reduce the price Of aohite men 0
! the auction block.
:, This great humanitarian pape
| near the close of the same editori;
Il from which we have quoted, says:
at would cost too much we SUI
s pose, and hardly be constitutional,
y to gather up 4 few of these rasca
and colonize them in Alaska"
Contract the currency, Mr.. G,
: zette, and you may yet reduce tt
+ cost, so you can afford the luxury
sending the poor to Alaska as erile
Russia has her Siberia, why not A
y .a. la,o bor h1o,1-oS r, -