Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-01-26
COMMUNICATED.
VIII. md What caused Tr""p"'
BY CHARLEsro"

All over the 0o -, 90 ,,hot
nonnlar will call attention 10 wna'
Po ina cause of it all, in fair judgement.
Is ~. ~, sustain the war against secession
49, lost extraordinary measures were
enacted ana by the General and State gov
ernments, involving the most prodigal
expenditure of money. And to get
money to carry on the conflict the Con-
eress and Union Legislatures granted
great bounties and vast loans, involving
special legislation, with great discrimi-
nation in favor of all means for carry
ing on the war. The labor OF the
country was drawn off from ordinary
pursuits to fill the ranks, thus stopping
Manufactures and almost the plough,
except so far as was subservieLt to
furnishing war supplies. The money
lender ,cas iegisiafed info privileged
character. And for a few thousand
dollars loaned to the government ne
and his children after him, were to DE
exempt from taxation on their securities,
winch were made to double almost
fsbulously. And so the benehclarles OF
fayoritism stand to-day in relation to the
rest of our people. So just as efect
follows cause, so has the capital OF the
neople been taken from the industries;
and beased together in the vaults OF the
non-producing favor;tes OF special en-
actment. As gregarious birds, 80 has
money accumulated in the pur!ieus OF
unthrift.
With the money mainly drawn from
productive labor, and used to buy up
the encountered property of unfortunate
debtors-thus their alas the last, and
only remnant of credit left to recup-
crate their impoverished condition, was
taken away from them by psudo patriots.
Isit strange there should be tramps !
And yet legislatures are called upon by
great conventions to import blood
hounds to hunt down the helpless
victims who have been sent adrlft by
piratical legislation during our dark
DAYS of madness, and governmental pros
titution. Manufactured poverty IL now
voted crime by its progenators- Oh;
thou golden calf what per cent voteiies
bow at thy shrine, and thou great man,
, mon, how whited are thy walls, aud
how full of corruption thy treasures.
The industrious laborers thou hast robbed
OF their energy, and turned them out OF
their homes; their mills you have stoPp-
ed and their fields you have desolated.
Their daily bread you have given to
YOUR dogs, aud their virtue you have
corrupted, and now in your hyp"crl'lcal
caut you are heaping great odlum upon
their distressed condition. Tramps, 1t
is true they are, and many OF them 10y
cruelty and wrong, have been forced
by your policy into desperation and
consequential crime. But, We vampires
of favori,ism, YOU are pnrficeps crimt'
ms, aud will, perhaps be tramps side
by side will, some of them down the
broad road, where hampers and
trampees have one common resting
place. Mark il, if the bloated fraud
mon gers at Washington are not soon
replaced by better men, We Will soon be
a nation of tramps.
Convene again ye Postcards of wealth,
and withdraw your spleen from the
1ramps, and turn your lofty heads to-
wards Congress, and say 10 It's mem
drrs, sTurn We, every one, to the acts
of your fanatical predecessors; with the
word reseai fixed upon your every
heart Then 90 through the great book
of acts, and leave its number less.
Paw off the bondholders with such cur
rency as you give to the people. Make
all money Of equal uaiue. Cut OH all
favoritism. Consider the power to re-
peal equal to the power to enact: Do
away with the fiction that regards any
law as too sacred to be repealed. I'm
curb the energies Of the people, by loos
ing the dog in the manger-money,
and tramps will disappear as snow be-
fore the genial rays of the sun at noon.
All tramps need is work, aud pay, but
they have become tired Of working
whilst idlers get the pay; and that such
has been the result of legislation for the
last eighteen years, no truthful man can
deny. Trampism like riot, rebellion
and revolution is forced, very often,
upon people unwilliugly, and as class,
are more .'sinned against than SHINING.
Men do not from choice degrade them
selves; and tramps are but the unhappy
victims of fauaticism, bigotry, and am
bition in their rulers.
AN ALPINE AVALANCHE.