The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-12-19
For the Csirs BULLETIN,
CAIRO'S POOR.

WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THEM, AND HOW?
With the exception Of few days at in
tervals, the weather has not been seasonably
cold, but it being now close onto Christ
mas, We may expect il not extremely cold,
certainly extremely disagrceablc weather.
Believing this cannot but look with com
passion upon the poor all over the land, but
especially in our city Ii is true that, AZ a
whole, We seem more prosperous than We
were some months ago but this prosperity
is, as yet, mostly only external. 1t is con.
fined almost exclusively to the employer,
the speculstor and the manufacturer. The
mechanic and the farmer, too, may be
slightly affected by this commercial "boom"
but the "bone and snew' of the land-the
great msjorty Of, If not the people-the Ia
borers and the employees generally, find
themselves where they have been for years,
dependent upon the one days labor for the
next days morscl, and subject, in many ca
scs, to the mercilesal will of scheming, ava
ricious capitalists companies
A fathers vain hon for employment,
the agonizing cry ofthc lonely sufferer and
the shivcring form Of the breadess and lily
clad may not SO plainly force themselves
upon our perceptions here, as out in the
worlds great cities-in the snow-covered
streets OF the northern metropolis,
where the feeble voice Of the
child OF poverty and woe, asking
for crumb, is heard at almost every step
The great journals published there note
not these sufferers. Their bloodhound
reporters overlook the wrctched b. the
waysidc, or, seeing them, shove them aside
and dash on after some more pretcItious
beings who believe that life consists Of no
more than the pompously strutting, with
hauty mean, the fashionable streets Of the
city--of no more than the getting tipsy at
fashionable and costly wine suppers; the
flashing Of costly jewels 10y the light
Of brilliant chandeliers, or the swapping of
jewclcd fingers in the face Of poverty.
Each vies with the other in giving glow
ing accounts Of the city's prosperit! and
attempts by describing the manslord ioofed
aud marble fronted palace, to hide the
mud besmcarcd hoycls--by parading be-
fore our gaze broad flint paved streets, the
wild rush OF mercantile life, the sweet.
scented gardens Of pleasure and the glitter
ing wealth Of some dozen nagnates to
obl,eratc the squal Of the alley, the
stsgnant calm Of thd moral being, the
horrible stencil OF the haunts Of vice and
the thousands OF annotated rag .bcdeckcd
inhabitants Of the gutter These paper,
are like the moon, since thcy either show
the bright side or none.
TUE BULLETIN is not of this class. II
frankly admits that there is more suffering
in Cairo, than there should be. True
Cairo is not, to be compared in this regard
to the thickly inhabited, great commercial
cities north and east. Blu, in city o.
twelve thousand inhabitants, approachabl'
from every direction, situated as Cairo is, on
the dividing line between extreme and con
''nued cold in the winter aud the opposit,
IN the summer, it must be expected that i
should be an objective point TO transien
travellers OF every description, many o
whom ore compelled to lay over for wan
OF means to 20 farther. There arc thost
among them, Of course who work no,
neither do they spin, who though able t,