Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-10-18
COMMUNISM-OUR CREED.

The views OF this beautiful sect has poi
soned the masses. The genus homo has
been afflicted from Adam down with large
ideas and big aspirations. Nomads abound.
They travel and somebody pays the fare.
Light fingered gents who do not soil their
hands with work. Thousands OF Gypsies
well organized with a queen or king go
around this vast creation hunting for work
Nay! may! NotI Born above all things
sordid. My family live-nust live-but we
do not work that lis not a part of our bust
ness. Work is not in our code of honor.
Our ancestors were all groat people, with
large ideas. We are the honey lees of
creation-the kind that eat and sting but
never gather into slorehouses or barns
True, we confscate and rob hives well
stored by workers. We love to see people
work. We aim to travel among workers
Stealing ia fine art. We were created 30.
We do not feel in the least ashamed OF our
selves. We glory in it. Our fathers be-
lOnged TO the first families. They carried
revolvers, but they never worked. They
enjoyed good appetite, th0y knew what
was good, they could eat, they did eat, but
they could not work; in fact, they did not
know how 10 work. We do not belong to
that class. Workers are n lower order in
the scale Of Creation. Slaves do the wsrk.
Wo sit around when we don't travel.
Some call us loaiers, A right. We do
get the loaves ii not the fishes-but oftener
both. Others call us tramps. Very well /;
no objection. After we eat and steal all
we can get easily in one place, we go to
another. The divisions of our order are
very many. Gentlemen, all of the first
order, with enlarged ideas and no boundary
lines to hem us in. It's only when we come
to working aud storing up that we say
| touch not, taste not, handle not. Some
have called Us a set Of thieves. But that's
4 mistake. All We can lay our hands on
is Of right and ought to be ours. Others
call us lazy. But we are pretty generally
doing something, Eating, drinking, steal
ing, fortune and story telling, trying to get
along. SOmeSay we are murderers. True,
we kill sometimes, but dead men tell no
tales, and we keep out Of lockups and out
Of the reach Of hangmen 30 long as we can.
In our callings we desire to be let alone.
We are not workers; that is out of the
question; but we have n profession, and
we follow it mp. We are usually on time,
and we do things up in good style. Some
say we are squallid, slovenly and dirty.
That may he in Il certain sense. We can't
he troubled with wash bowls and towels
and soap and all that sort OF stuff. We
wash whenever we feel like it. Some say
we break The seventh commandment. That
is grand mistake. We have no seventh
commandment. We, that is our whole no
BILE order have no commandments. We
are a social set Of men and women We
never have been and never mean to be
bothered with the seventh or the eighth or
any other commandment. AN things in
common that's our creed. We try to live
up to it, aud Ne get along very well among
| free thinkers-a class OF men whom we re-
sPeot Our practices do not often bring us
into ir0nble. Once in while We fall Into
the hands of biguts and hide bound set
oi beings who nre our natural born enemies
aud have ever been trying to destroy our
noble order. But we increase in mumher
am form large, very large company.
Some people have found us out already aud
many others will hear Of us before We get
through. We are a big set and we are do.
ing big thing. How do you like our
creed EN- ROUTE.