Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-01-29
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knew could always give them plenty to eat,
and drink, and keep them warm, and send
them to school, and keep them there as long
as poor mans children would want to 60.
My neighbors said, you must declare your in
tention to become citizen, take out your
papers, and vote. said time enough vet |
want to get the hang of your system of gov
ernment, so as to know what ! am doing.
You have been at it all your lives am 4
stranger. And 50 l waited six years before
got my first papers. In 1857 it was hard
times.
WE STOPPED WORK
in October, and did no more till March.
The miller said, 81 knew you these seven
years for an honest man. When your money
gives out, conc to me for flour The store
keeper said, g Come to me for groceries. =
The landlord said, ''No hurry about the
rent" They found that could talk in the
church where | used To attend Next to 4
man who can work, the Americans like q
man who can talk well Then you see nv
books come in, and that winter made $50
lecturing. Somehow they heard about me
in Chicago. They wanted a man to help the
poor, to preach. to keep night school, take
care of lost children, and do any thing else
that turned up. They sent for me to come
to Chicago. have been here almost sixteen
years. Ii Is no use to tell you what have
been doing all this time bat here | am, YOU
see, in about as good shape as want to be,
when my debts are paid, and that i the end
of the second chapter.
Now, then, to begin again, why did tell
you this story? Because | want You to see
what | see and think what think about the
United States of America rs home for poor
men who had to leave the old country to got
better chance in the new, AID what we
ought to do when We yet here. Il we will
do cur duty, raise our children - Do their
duty, and when we yet through, feel VIC have
made good stroke. For take it to be true
as gospel that no Englishman or German
will
LEAVE VoTHzRLlT0 or FATHERLAND,
if all things are As good for MIN on tie otber
side as they are on this. left England he
cause | wanted to earn better wages. / got
them right away, One week il .luly. 1850,
we had no work in the shop. | could not
afford to be idie, 50 carried hod. and that
week made more money by twenty-five per
cent than | ever made in England "a, the an
VII wanted u he where coald feel | had
something about my own government. and
cast vote Of any other man. They were
more auxioas about that than was They
wanted me 70 take out my papers leiore
was ready 10 swear of from ny obi country,
and before ! knew how :, help run the na-
chine They had been two hgndrcl and
thirty years trying to put things into shape.
Their brothers and grandfather hal fought
for freedom against nine, AMI bought it
with their blood / think it cost me about
50, and then had all the rights they hal,
except could not be = President, which Is
not very desirable office after all wien you
kaow Won can NOT ccc it, | wanted good
schools for my boys and girls when they
We're ready. There they were waiting and
nothing 10 pay. wanted friends to make
up for these lo-, Every man, il seemed
to me, was my friend glad 70 see ne get
along, and it was all 9 DE about the teeth.
WANTED 70 czr orr OF THE FORGE.
In nine years wa. out oc i; Bat, i. l
had stayed in England, [ believe | -hou-!
have had 10 hammer away as long a> | lived
| was living in Pennsylvania. where they
axe more friendly to Germans khan hey are
To EasliShmeu. because they arl ia1rc oi the
German stock. Blt they treated me ike a
" Dutch uncle Now. as q man must begin
with himself. this j. why | have to!d my
story, So You may sec how one poor emisraat
is compelled % speak Of the / nittl State.
| did no, dream twenty-five years ago this
Christmas that my venture c5aI begin tn
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