Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-29
Historical Rooms
The Remedy for Tramps.

Iranps, tramps, traMpel Every
village has supply of them. Cities
are oyer-run with them. You meet
them on the roads, craving bread
and bed at every farmers door.
What is the cause? They are men
ont of employment. Many of them
have sought employment until invari
able denial mas convinced them that
the market for labor is full, and there
is no use offering their services.
They are more bnffstted If they ask
for work than if they ask for only
what nature must havs-for what
the common consent of humanity
says they must have. Are they to
blame2 Is it their fault that there
| is no demand for their labor? Not
altogether. The majority of them
would work if they could get work.
The regulations of society should
make labor and capital mutually com
pensatory. ldleness brings misery.
Those who have houses and sit by
their warm fires have only ridicule
and abuse for the tramp, yet the
tramp is the most miserable man to
be found. He is the most miserable
man, but who knows what misery
he put ont of sight when he stock to
| the roads as q tramp? Some of
them left wife and little children at
the mercy of neighbors who boast of
their charity, but dispise those who
SILVER IN the presence of the wolf of
hunger and cold. If he has no wife,
no mother, no children-none de-
| na~aa~t ~re- him, tkn~ no hos HE
misery sall to himself-he has no
home. How happens it he has no
| homer Reader, keep this question
in mind. Thousands of young men
have no wives who should have.
Corresponding thousands of young
women are out Of the relationship
for which they were created. Is
there any connection between these
two arrangements? The man who
can't find employment charges his
misfortune upon the man who has
money. and the man who has money
charges the other with laZiness or
bad habits. In general both are
wrong. The evil is where no one
has looked for it, Behind the count
ers of thousands of village stores
nay, OF city stores also-ladies have
taken the place of men. They were
not put there because they are SUI.
perior to men. The wages they
draw goes to the extravagant adorn.
ment of their persons. They must
havo such outward appearance as
will attract custom for their en-
ployers and secure companion for
the evening amusement. Young
gentlemen seldom think of theri for
more serious object. Ladies thus
engaged are not educated for the
duties and responsibilities OF wife or
mother. Other bad consequences
cannot be here enumerated. In our
public schools, in cities, villages and
country, tens of thousands of other
girls and women are employed under
the name Of teachers. As for educa-
ton few of them have ever thought
of what it is or what it is for, and as
for government, they keep peace by
coaxing the kindly disposed and
truthful children to endure the inn
positions of the ill-bred ones with as
little complaint as possible. Unsus-
tanned by superior power these see
that the only way to hold their own
is to become also vile. 1t is one of
the ways by which society becomes
over>run by trained desperadoes.
But it was not the intention OF this
writing to enumerate the specia!
trains of evil which run 10 the cur
rent of these displacements. There
are other hundreds, yes thousands
already, of girls and women occupy
ing the places of men, in state and
government offices. The men who
are there like to have them there.
That is as human as it is to err. The
money earned by these females never
goes into channels society intended.
Just enough they get to pay for
their multiplicity OF gowns, their
Jewels and their superauous hair, all
of which are as necessary qualifica-
tions for their positions as graceful
penmanship or deft fingers. A man
with the same pay would do the
work better and keep himself and
the lady who has his place, it she
were his wife, more respectfully than
she is now kept, and both would be
happier. If men now idle and yearn-
ing for employment were put back in
to all the places which the weaker
sex weakly occupy, society would
be on it's feet again. Men would be
10 positions where they would have
no fear of the family tie, and the wo-
men would be better cared for, hap~
pier and freer than they are. There
would also be less effemlnacy and q
development of nobler manhood
in our business enterprises and in
our national character. Nature in.
dictates aud facts prove this. The
old truth that woman was created
te be mans help is forgotten. We
are living upon the theory that the
sexes should be independent OF each
other. We forget that to be feminine
is womanly and in woman beautiful,
and to be masculine is manly and
noble only in man. The household
is for the one, the field for the other,
and thus they gather into each
others laps. With the one sex en-.
croaehing upon tho sphere of the
other, society can no more prosper
than bird can fly with it's two
wings on one side of its body. 70
be independent of each other-to
have conflicting interests-requireS
the breaking up of society. Let us
return TO the law God made.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Fennimore, March, 1877