Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-09

OiluSly huahcS every u6Cu4nlC as
rich as a nabob. When man has
toe much corn it is a luxury to find
some one help him to eat it.
America is the granary Of the
whole world. What other land has
1000 square miles of cornfelds in
one fertile valley? Four million
square acres of fruits, vegetables
and grains"
"Trampism carries withit drunk
enness, dishonesty and crime. You
surely do not indorse violence?"
suggested the reporter.
"By no means" replied Mr. Train.
"More knowledge will bring less
wrong. Crime comes through ig-
norance. Tramps will not quarrel,
rob or murder when they cease to
covet, desire or pray for more than
enough! AS society exists there
can be no unity of man! The
Nomads have no lateh-keys to their
tents! l never saw lock and key on
the backwoods log-cabin! The
BedOuins have no police to guard
their hocks and herds! The Zinga-
ris sleep with doors wide openl The
Mongol Tartars have no jaiIs, aims
houses or asylums in their villages
Of tents on the desert sand ! Every
body trusts his neighbor when
chopping wood in the winter snowl
The indians never pull down the
blinds! They never open private
letters! They do not listen at the
key-hole! They never kiss behind
the doorl Trampism makes life as
free as the spring water it drinks
and the fresh air it breathesl When
tramps realize their emancipation
from the barbarism of civilization,
they will not bull,doze their COM
panions or steal that which they can
have by asking for itw
"0ne would almost suppose from
your remarks" said the reporter,
'that you founded the Order Of
Trampisml"
"0h, no! 1t is older than the
mountains! 1t commenced with thu
forest primevall Trampjsm is bib
lical: Lay nothing up for to-mor
row. Sufficient for the day. read
the proverb. All l have done is t,
set the example of loafngl Il
make Bummerism fashionable
While the quantity is increasing,
am improving the qualityl Is
more ignoble to ask for bread fror
a full corn.crib than to beg you
dinner in the pulpit from a starvin,
parish? Would you rather not be
tramp and sleep the sleep of tn
hummer on new-mown hay thaI
rest the rest of q fraud on False
Returning Board White Hous
bed?"
"What do you consider" aske,
thesreporter, "the chief luxury o
life?7
"TrampiSm! bummerism! dead
beatismw
"'What is your occupationi
asked Colonel Scoyel, when he pu
me IN the wltness-box in the Viii
son-Scott case at Camden"
"1 am a loafer,' was my reply.
"You mean a gentleman-at
large"
"'No; ! am a large gentleman
"The court was amused, but
was in life-earnest. / have been a
| aristocratic loafer in Madison
Square for four years. l toll not
neither do | spin. Yet Solomon i
all his glory was not a bigger bun
mer than | am in the luxury of N
tramp existence"
"You must have noticed in you
travels, Mr.. Train, that there is
wide gulf between Eastern econom
and Western extravaganza" 15i
II should say so. have seen i
Japan, China, Java, Borneo, Indi
or Egypt, families of half a doze
: living luxuriously on a dollar
! month. How few of our Delmonic
: gormandizers realize that a thou
sand million of people to-day neve
saw meat. We are inyenting every
thing but the knowledge of the law
> of life, and that is being deyelope
, through my psychologist evolution
J Nobody can solve the problem VIII
| am the first to lead all on abster
tion, from hand.shaking, Tobacco,
] alcohol, condiments, associatin
with adults and animal foodl
I, %"An open-air bed, under a shade
+ tree, of tramp in perfect health
| agree with you, a luxury IN con
e parison with the satin couch of
: diseased monarch. Yet the worI
5 has put its foot down on this gypI
Y life!
+ "The world is an ass! society
s mulel custom a dead dog! ri
? Tramp's Hay-Oook Sleeping Hot
is a palace alongside of the misen
bic log shanties that Presiden
t jackson, Harrison, Lincoln an
s johnson were born in. Gear Peter
Z early life was that Of a wanderin
? tramp! All labor was a slave sc
5 years agol Wages are not thr,
S centuries old-a worse kind of ser
s dom Natal chains on tha leus ~