The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-02-21
THE TRAMP LAW.
Hon. MIR. WOLF Comes TO the Rescue
Of the GcntIrmlen who Travel
ON tho primitive Chris
tt0n Plan.

lowing amendment:
"Strke out the word T. amp or trqmps, wlareye
the same occurs, and insert the words, vagrant q
xagrants."
Mr.. Wolff said:
Mr.. Webster and Wor
cester defined the word tramp as
fOot-traveler, and in adopting thi
Chapter as it now stands, exhibits ,
poverty of language in the coinage o
new terms and with this legal def
milton we.aRe to palter in double
sense, yoking the vagabopd and thu
lazaroni with the poor men of the
country, who have the manhood ant
the courage to travel on foot. Mr.
Speaker, such taunts and jcers come
home to myself. When fatherlesS
boy, before / had reached the age OF
manhood, l ira yelled through twenty
four Slates--from the Cordilleras to
Castle Garden, and'from the Falls OF
Niagara to the most Southern Keys OF
Florida. During the eventful period
l was a sailor upon the broad At antic;
have furled the royal, the top-gallant
sail, and have often stood at the helm
Applause l padded canoe by my
self from Cairo, one hundred and
eighty miles, to the mouth of the
the Obion river. [Applause.] L also
taught five months school on Bald
Pond, on the st. Francis river, in Ar
kansas; and chopped cord wood on
the Mississippi and Alabama rivers.
In all my tramps, 1 have never yet
understood that my integrity has sut-
fered any deterioration. ALWAYS paid
my way.
And, Mr.. Speaker, this question
may come home to other gentlemen
OIL this floor. Peradventure, forsooth,
some of their grandfathers were scis-
sors grinders, and some granduncle
may have been an organ grinder.
[Applause.] Yes, sir, there are gen.
tlemen ON this floor, who put on clean
shirt-collars every morning, and ride
gilping on the street Car to the
Edwards" and when they are at
home, will walk two miles to borrow
cross-cut saw.
We are now called upon to initiate
the legislation of Connecticut and
The hopeful youths
of the country are to be put under the
ban of the State. We are too slow to
devise means for the relief of distress
ed humanity, but swift to prosecute
the honest manhood of the country,
promiscuously with a God forsaken
and poverty stricken class of Gods
green earth. Applause The yeo-
young men of the coun-
try-have no escape, while they are
buffeting against the surging waves
of adversely, and pursued by "the
sings and arrows of an outrageous
fortune" they can only appeal to the
Author of their being, through long
line of red tape; a petition isreturned,
BLESSED are the poor and needy, for
they shall inherit the kingdom of
1od;" and another, "Whom the Lord
oveth he chasteneth. And the lean
Doet squeezes out little line: "Sweet
IRE the uses of adversely" [Applause.]
Mr.. Speaker, it does seem to me that
f Christ and his disciples were on
,arth, travelling in the land of Pales-
inc, some finiky young man or some
maid would sarcastically
ooint out, "There goes tramps." This
yhapter, as it is presented to the peo-
lie, is one of series of a long list of
and gives daily strength
o the National Labor Party. 1t is
$ bread cast upon the waters, which
viii appear after many days.
Republics are sometimes tickle.
When Madame Roland was led to the +
as she passed by the statue !
liberty, she shrieked, 80, Liberty l
hat crimes and cruelties have been c
nacted in thy name!" [Applause.] !
ask gentlemen upon this floor to d
ause. We have revolutions in f,mi- i.
es as wei as nations. While we i
land ready to vindicate the law by L
lie punishment of offenders, let us I
cal gently with the unfortunate; and Il
OF amalgamate the miseries and woes r
the country, with the honest and a
Idustfious young men, a thousand f.
lies from home, among strangers in
strange land, for remember eye II
ere once strangers in the land of p
gypt." DR.. Franklin and his many II
aves of bread and many other celebri- p
IS have had their origin as tramps. .,
0 poet ever wrote against tramps. in
Dm Moore, in his "Traveler," runs : 81 :,
knew by the smoke that so gracefully
curled, tn
Dove the green elms, a cottage was near bl
I'D said if there be peace to be found in
the world, re
heart that was humble might hope for it b
here" X
-pplause.
The amendment passed by an over &C
lelming majority, but was subse- lie
emily reconsidered and laid upon an
e table. III
We rarly have had a more agree th b
lie cal than one we had yesterday re
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