The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-21
..rHE SWEET. SWEET SOUTH.
Happy Southern Homes VS.. NHi.er
able Northern HOveIs.
Hills Before Congress.

upon the human race curse, is palpa-
BILE to all Bible readers. Through the sell
tishness and shOrt-sightedness OF our So
called statesmen, however, greater curse
than labor has come upon this people; it is
the deprivation of the chance to labor. If
the Southern people could see the thou
sands in the North out of EN- ployment, the
thousands now pleading for The simple
right TO earn a scant living for their wives
and little ones, they would thank God that
their lots are cast in that sunny land, and
would esteem as a blessing the high privi-
lege of earning their bread "by the sweat
of the brow
l do not see how [ could better serve a
large number of our people, black and
white, in making them not only contented
with their present surroundings, but
grateful for the superior advantages they
enjoy-for the manifold blessings an All
wise Providence has bestowed upon those
who only have to do half work in order to
live well. From their standpoint they
read of the great cities of the North the
s.bloated bond-hOlders," the upper ten--but
they know nothing, and see nothing, of the
lower million--nothing of the toiling--ah,
the toiling poor are comparatively happy
but it is of those who can find no place to
day for mere pittance, shat 1 would write.
Miss Juliet Corson, of New York city, has
recently issued pamphlet for gratuitous
distribution, instrueting the poor in her
method of supplying family of six with
three meals day at cost of only forty
five cents. t'The idea of writing and dis
tributing this pamphlet" says Miss CorsOn,
in a recent interview with World Re
porter, "came into my head at the time of
the labor strikes last July. L was dread
fully afraid there would be great riot in
this city, and the leaders of all the
strikes declared that their action was tax en-
only because they could not support their
families upon the wages received by them,
| determined to introduce them to the
means of living on the least possible
amount of money.
Having announced her intention in the
public journals. hundreds of eager poor
visited her next morning, anxious to learn
her new method of cheap living. Besides
she received letters without number from
the slower Million laying bare state of
facts that the humble farmer, in his happy
Mississippi home, rarely, if ever, dreams of
AS witness the following:
MORRIsANIA N, I E, August 10, 1871.
MY DEAR MADAM: | read in the Sunday
papers of to-day something of more impor-
lance than L ever read in my life, under
MY wife read il, and was very anxious
to know how it could be done. | work in
a shop where we are getting from eighty
cents to one dollar and forty-four cents
day There are about ninety men working
there | would humbly suggest, it you
wish TO be our benefaetreSs, to send us
each copy that we may learn to feed our
selves economically.
..If any rerson with intelligent eye
would walk through our shops and take
notice of our lean, haggard, worn-out faces
and bodies, he would come to the conclu-
S''' "A WoRKIN MAN"
A poor woman pleads 81 am very poor,
with nothing put by Tor the WINTER anu
perhaps your books would teach nae how
to keep my poor little ones from starving"
another: t'My husband read in the pa
per that you had book which would snow
Us the way to live cheaply; and being one
ofmany thousands driven to the wall by
these hard times, should like to find out
how to do IT. r
five of us women and little boy. But
my eyes are bad, and it is very hard. W e
don't have much to eat many days. W.
want YOUR book very bad indeed.
And another: am a mechanic, and hav-
inc worked but six months in twelve, and
very poor prospects of having work TINS
fail, you see to provide lot my WI, vic anu
family that must live as economical as
can And if can provide meal OF WhOle-
some food for Is cents it will be great
help to keepthe wolf from the door,.
Miss Corson's bookl, writes: ave nave
been in hard luck for the last TOUR years.
Very little money. Very little work at
any price. And what is worse than All,
winter is coming on us; then all work
stops and the store keepers Will not trust
us till spring opens again. 30 YOU see We
are very much in need OF DOCK 10 teacn
US the way to cook what llICIe Ws can SOe
in proper way. = :
thousand. There is many a poor family,
bora all the meat that Is
bought goes to the husband; be eats lt 70
sustain him in his hard work, ana an tue
rest 60 without; and these, she might nave
added, are by no means the most unhaPpy
Who that reads che wall of the really
poor-a very meagre insight Into whose
hard lot is given by the few samples puD-
lished above-who that reads this letter
does not thank God that his happy H1tIs
Southern home is yet left TO him through
all the rayages of time? And whose heart
does not bleed, and his eye grow dim over
the prospect OF the destitute In our large
cities and towns the coming winter!
Before the war-though my eApeIlehG; =
was then limited-I never met beggar m
the SOUTH This have no DOUBT, IS the SA-
perience of our people there, generaily
Since the war, have seen the IeWesl pos
sibl1 number asking charity OF any man,
in that favored section. But IN the NORM
those begging money and bread cr0Wa tne
public thoroughfares on every nanQ,
among them, even, are many OF the aDies1-
bodied men, No where on this green
earth can man make handsome compe-
tencv with less labor, than IN mississippi
and few there be OF her sons gong abroad
who Al not return homes thankful thai
there. at least, his eyes may rest from look
ING upon the distressed. and his ears from
en IS st H. New vi Eneland and Middle States
where economy of real estate becomes I'M
nerative. every square lncn Of SOIL MAs
yield 10 portion q dne n@fs rnssnitfh
highees and most honorable Of ali aVoea