The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-11
PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE.


that workingmen, and especially such as
follow miscellaneous pursuits, naturally
grayitate toward the large cities. This Is
notably the case with the foreign.bor ele
ment, and is due, in part to the gregarious
impulses Of the average human beng, and
in part to the prevailing impression.that
where there are so much money and bust
ness, there is employment for all who seek
it. 1t matters nothing that the fallacy Of
such deduction has been learned by every
laboring man that finds his way 10 the large
cities-the idle workingmen continue to
throng to the cities, as if moved by the GER
tainty that their experience will prove an
exception to the general rule. Under the
operation Of such impressions and impulses
the labor markets of the cities become
grieyously oyerstocked, employmentseek-
ers find nothing to DO at any price, and are
soon taught what it is to feel the want of
even crust of bread. In the midst of a
great abundance they are brought face to
face with nakedness and hunger; and
seeing the wealthy, sQuandeTing in idle
pleasures the money that would bring them
ample food and apparel, it is not to be
wondered at that they feel embittered and
resentful, and are ready to plunge into any
extreme to bring about more equitable
distribution of fortunes favors.
Put yourself, comfortable reader, in the
place of the penniless, unemployed work
ingman in our great cities. At every step
you would see the evidences Of comfort and
wealth. The whirling wheels Of the prince
ly merchants carriage would fling mud in
your face as il sped by, and the glisten and
rustic Of silks and broad cloths worn 10y the
well-to.do who throng the fashionable ave-
nues, would constantly vex your eyes and
ears, yet from all the splendor and ease and
luxury you might see, you could not win
for all tile toll your hands could perform
enough Of common food to keep off
the pangs Of hunger. That, in such
strait, the voice of the designing dema-
gogue, denounclng the rich man as the
enemy of the human race, and calling upon
poor men to assert their rights at any
cost, would influence you, and, perhaps,
win you TO bloody extremes is but natural
can scarcely be denied. That you
brought your want and misery upon your
self by coming to the city, you do not stop
to think. You only think of your woes
q thousand fold aggravated by the wealth
and magnifcence around you, which you
are made to feel have been wrested from
the sweat and toll Of the millions, destitute
like yourself.
And now, what is the remedyi In dis
cussing the subject of unemployed labor
in great cities the St. Louis Republican as.
sumes that the remedy obviously lies in
attracting this surplus of labor to agricult-
ure and causing its diffusion throughout the
country. In the Old World there is no
remedy for surplus Of labor in the cities,
because the country is all occupied and
there is generally little chance for work or
of independent farming, With us it is
wholly different for in most places in the
country there is not enough of available
labor, and the territory awaiting cultivation,
and where land is readily obtainable, is al.
most illimitable, The tact is that our labor.
Ing classes, owing to many causes, and
among such is the peculiar American thirst
for excitement and rapid advancement in
life, are drifting away from the nobest of all
work--the tilhngof thesoil Even the sons Of
the farmers feel the influence themetlopol.
tan whirlpool, and very often forsake the
homestead and the farm Tor politics. the
professions or city dissipation, There is no