The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-09-15
q We tried that. but it won't work.

| We Kin git along WITH the weather,
but you see the country is SO sparsely
settled that it takes too much walkin'
to get from house to house. And be-
sides, they are too handy with their
weapons down ther'. In the North
when they get after us they arrest us,
and take us to Jail, and bring us
tracts, and treats us kindly, so as to
reform US. Down South it amt that
way. If You go into house and scare
| the wimmin, thesmen amt far Oft,
and they git on their horses and hunt
us. And they don't arrest us nuther.
When they come up with us, they are
jest as likely as not to put Il charge
of buck-shot through US. Out of a
party of fourteen of lis that went down
into North Carolina, only five ever
got back North. And then don't
like niggers, aud you have to do a
great deal of stayin' with 'em. l
never did like 'em, and can't over.
come the prejudis. They are an in
ferior race.n
why don't you try work a little
while 2" The mans face took a cur.
ious expression.
/" Work We work Why, We
might as we'll be lab'rin' men to once |!
None of that for me. There is one
city in the West wich 1 got into last
fall, where they arrest us and put us
in a yard, breakin' stone for the
streets-Toledo. They got me once,
and kept me at it two weeks. l
wouldn't go within hundred miles
of that city agaiu. Think of workin'
ten hours day, and feedin' on bread
and water They don't know how to
treat people ther'."
What Toledo does, every city and
town in the country should do. The
moment a beggar appears on the
streets of that city, he is arrested, is
taken to barracks provided for such
cumberers of the earth, and if able to
work, is set to breaking stone. When
his time is up, he is given loaf of
bread and a piece of meat, and is dis
missed with the assurance if he re-
turns he will be retained a still longer
aa.:ia.l- None Of them return. This
fcity will have fifty thousand of these
pests within its borders this winter,
who will go out as soon as spring
opens, to iufest the country. Every
one of them is thief, whenever thiev-
ing can be done safely, and murder is
only abstained from because it isn't
safe. The tramp proper came to this
country from England, but it wasn'i
long till the American vagabond
adopted his tactics. They have signs
and language of their own, and where
one OF two are seen, you may be sure
there are more. They work in gangs
and can he rallied within few hours
They are vicious, useless and danger
Gus, aud society owes it to itself tC
extirpate them.
We of New York are looking anx-
iously to the Western States that hold
elections this fall President Hayes
is the first man occupying the chail
who ever attempted any thing like
genuine reform in the management OF
the government, and if the people
desile reform, it is due themselves
as we'll as him that this fall they
endorse him. Ohio and Pennsylvania
ought both to be carried by the Re-
publicans, by-decided majorities. Let
them remember that the President
has reduced the expenses of the gov.
ernment millions, that he is purging
the civil service, and that he is doing
all that man can do to purify and re-
form the government, and let then
say by their votes that they approve
of it. 1t would be a burning shame
to lose the elections this fall.
Business is better and getting bet
fer every day. The crops are nov
certain, and there can be no question
as to there being large and healthy
, trade this winter. The weather is
delightful, and the health of the city
good. PIETR0.
/ Before tile Social Science convention
, which met at Saratoga last week, Mr.