The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-11-14
THE srATIoN.HousE LopaRRs.

This cluster Of cities has more to contend with
than any cities on the continent. In twenty eight
years 5000 900 Of foreign population have landed
AZ our port. Those who hat capital and means.
for the most part, moved on the great opening Of
the West some of those who stopped here have be.
come our most useful citizens, but nearly all the
virlainOus population remained within our Dor
ders ready TO be manipulated by our demagOgueB
and for the Matching out OF all criminal despera-
tlons. The native vagranCy and beggary OF New
York has been augmented by the thievery and
impurity OF the worst population OF London and
Paris and Marlborough and Belfast and Dublin
and Cork, We would have had enough vaga
bondage and turpitude in our American cities
Without this importation dumped at Castle Gar
den. How much paupersm we saw by the flash
Of the police lantern How much more we did
not see How much more no eye but Gods will
ever take in There 1t is cuddled up In the cell
OF he police station They come shivering in, tip
their torn hat, and say, "A nights lodging, sir"
and are turned into the dreadful dOrmitOriCB. You
can hardly stand the nOxiouB air long enough TO
look how can they endure II all night and every
night2 Think of IT, 40 900 dodgers Of this sort ev
cry year In the station houses And what pathOs
in the thought that whole families, turned out OF
doors because they can't pay their rent, must tum
BILE In here for shelter, the respectable and the
reprobate they who have struggled for decency
and good name flung helpless into the lOathsome
pool innocent childhood and viCiOns old age,
Gods poor and Satan's despeTadOeR. No report Of
Charity Commissioner or Police Commissioner or
Aims house can half tell the story of New York
and Brooklyn psuperism. It will take larger
book, a book with more pOnderOus lids, book
made up of other paper than human mandatory
the book Of Gods remembrance. At my basement
door we have an average OF one hundred calls
day seeking aims In my reception room every
day have applications for help that an old style
silken purse gathered by ring In the middle and
with Vanderbt's wealth In one side and William
b. AslOr's wealth on the other, could not satisfy
refer to these mems wealth while living, for
they have not as much money as we have now
that they have their shTOud on. The statistics OF
city pauperism needs to be written In ink, black
and red and blue, blue for the stripes, black for
the infamy aud red for the blood. About 1900
poor helped by the Bureau for the relief Of the
outdoor sick, about II 900 helped by the City Hos
pitfalls, about 10000 by pTivOte charity, about TO-
600 taken care of In refOImatory institutions and
prisons, Out of population of 100000 people of
New York, 900 people are helped by charity
pIivate or municipal, Hear It, ye Christian
churches, and pour forth your benefaCtionsl Hear
It, ye ministers Of Christ aud utter words OF 'ym'
pathy for the suffering and thunders OF indigna'
ton against the sources Of wretChednessl Hear
1t MayOralties and Adermanic Boards and Judi
cial Benches and COnstabulaIies Depend upon
II, II we do not heed and neither the Courts nor
the Churches wake up to their duty, God will
scOurge US as the yellow fever never scourged
New Orleans, as the plague never smote London,
as the earthquake never shook Caracas, as the
fire never whelmed sodom. Reformation or ami
hilatiOn l would to God that l might throw q
bomb shell of arOusal into every city hall meet
ing house and Cathedral on this continent The
factories al Fall River and Lowell have sometimes
stopped for latk of demand or lack Of workmen;
hut the great milliOn-roOmed factory Of sin goes
on by day and night, year after year, without
band or arrestlng spindle, Its great
wheel is turned by Hood not like that OF the Mer-
rimaC or Connecticut, butby crimson flood pour
"a fgVr fhn md thn In n
saloons and the winecellars Of the lannd, and the
faster these foods roll the faster the wheel turns
and the band OF the wheel is woven out OF broken
and at every turn thereof there
pours out at the mouth Of the iron mill crushed
desOlatPd homes sdualOr and mendi'
eanoy, and crime-dOmestic and municipal-and
national woe; and the creaking and the the rumb-
ling of wheels are the shrieks and grOans OF men
aud women lost for two worlds; aud the cry S
bring on more regulations, more homes more
fortunes, more cities for the grst OF this slupend-
Ous mill"
But" you say, these mills Of death will, after
q while, cease from lack Of material" Mol See
by the police lantern into the iuture In this cus'
ter of cities $4,000 bare efOOted homeless children
Of the streets hey are the reserve corps of those
that are to come up and take the ranks Of those
who drop into the MOrgue, the Potters Field, and
the East River. Some one has estimated that, II
these children were place in double file, three
feet apart, they would make procession eight
bitten, sin cursed, Ophthalmic thrOng-the tige's
and scorpions and addeTs That are waiting TO bite
and sting and destroy society which they take TO |
be their natural enemy, Howard Mission is saw
ing many Children's Aid Society many News
boys lodging houses many Industrial schools
many. One Society has tranSplanted from the Ill
thy pavement of our cities to Western farms 30 900
Of these children, by matchleBs stTategem Of char
ity changing that multitude from vagranCy into
industrious aud useful citizenship. Out Of 2lt0O
thus transported only twelve turned ont badly.
But still the battalion OF juvenile Vagrancy march
% on.
one regiment is made up Of boot blacks. They
seem Jolly but they have known sorrows greater
than many an old man. Amid the vilest OF temp
tations, and kicked and Gufffd up galrets ana
down cellars, they make their W or % week,
and BY 70 years Of natural life are go years old In
sin, Pfching pennies is their leisure and smOk
ing the stumps Of cigars thrown into the ditch
They are the prey of gamblers, and destroyed by
the top gallery OF the low play house. Backing
shoes their business, the inteTregDum OF their
work s swallowed up with the blaCkening Of
tb cir mOras shine your boots, sir" they sing out
with affected gaiety OF voice. hut there is sad
iremOr in their aCcentuRtiOn. No one cares for
them You thoughtle sly put up your foot on
their stand ard whistle or smoke while, God
knows 1t woHd not have hurt you to have said a
kind word OF counsel or Of good cheer Who has
prayed for q boot black2 Who, finding one
wronged out OF his ten cents has demanded for
him Justice? Who, finding the wind blowing up
under his short jacket and Teddeniug his bare
neck, has invited him In to warm2 God have
mercy on the regiment Of boot-blaCks.
Another regiment of this great battalion Of
suffering is made up of the newsbOys, the sharp
est wisest, wittlest lads Of the town, Up al four
o'clock in the morning, by unnatural vigilance
waking at half past three themselves or roughly
pulled out at that hour the cold damp sheets of the
folding.rOOmS flung over their arms and against
their chest, already shivering, aud around the
bleak ferries and on the slippery pavemenls Of
the winter, singing as merrily as though they
were chanting Christmas carol, sun, Herald,
Tribune and Times" or IN the pleak evening I'LL
the air with the cry of Eagle, Argus Evening Ex
pre- Post, Commercial" and mai bing only half
a cent on each sale! Working II hours for 20
centsl In one year about 900 of these boys ap.
piled for help at the News.boys Lodging house on
Park Place, and about 1000 Of them laid upin the
Savings Bank about $4,000 But for the great mul.
titude there remains hunger and cold and naked.
ness and early graves or quick prisons. There is
nothing on the street that so moves me as when
on a wintry morning see newSbny with papers
that he cant sell, about one fourth clothed cry
ing with the cold, his face or hands bleeding
from fall, or rubbing knee that has been hit
on the side of the car selling newspapers that tell
OF rare8d accidents, and boiler explosions, and
the fouudering Of ships In the last storm, while
he says nothing about that which was to himself
greater than all other misfOrtunes and disasters
eye of the police lantern see them cOed up In the
deep slumber OF the night, for few hours forget
fnl Of want, and pain, and storm and darkness
But, one Of them struggling In his dream as he
supposed that some one was stealing his papers
away from him, / stopped and thought whether
It would be right to wish that they might never
wake up again. God pity and save the newsboys
Of the city
But there are other regiments marching on
regiments Of rag.pickers, regiments Of match
sellers regiments Of juvenile thieves great reserve
corps Of darkness aud death. What viii become
Of society II they are unarTested and unsRved p
But said TO the detectives, Enough for one
night Of the misery Of New York" We had gone
up and down stairways and into cellars, and
turned this way and that, until knew not where
we were exceDt that we were bounded on .he
north by want, on the south by suffering on the
east by anguish, and on the wekt by despair Ev.
erythiDg had opened before US, for the detectives
pretending to be looking for 4 thief, and giving
the impression that was the man who had lost
the property. It was not my own strsIagem, but
theirs Then we turned bomeward, and tho't
hat next sabbath would like 10 make the pan
Drama pass before my congregation, stirring their
nity arDusiDg their bpneAppnpp and making