News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-28
THE LIME.KILN CLUB.
How Bro. Gardner Settles the Question
of Charity.
From the Detroit Free Press.l

From the Detroit Free Press.l
81 hold heah in my ham," began
Brother Gardner as the triangle sounded
and Samuel Shin laid aside his harmoni-
can, ''I hold heah letter from one of
de charitable societies of Detroit akin if
dis club can be depended on to aid in de
good work dis winter In sartin cases
dis club kin be depended on fur ton of
coal, cord of wood, bari of flour or
$40 bill In sartin odder cases dis club
won't cum down wild as much as a
shingle-nail. Public charity in dis
kentry am q Gurus thing.
st insists that cherry man shall arm
his own ibin', an den it turns in an sup
ports de class who will starve sooner dan
work
1T am de enemy of whisky, an yet as
soon as whisky makes pauper it sup
ports him.
cit hatters de man who gifts few
dollars ahead, an yet demands a sheer of
dat money to aid de idle an dissipated.
"Pubic charity comes as near bein'
bold-faced fraud as any sentiment you
kin name. 1t encourages laziness by
providin' fur de lazy. 1t encourages
drunkenness by providin' fur de families
of drunkartis. 1t encourages immortality
by providin' homes an hospitals for de
immoral. 1t encourages the spendthrift
by feedin' an clothin' him all winter
after he has squandered his money all
summer. Public charity am a wall agin
which de reckless, de lazy, de shiftless
an de dissolute lean when all odder props
give way.
Skinner it down, and public charity
means takin' de money which man has
saved by hard work an economy an
usin' it to support de man who has
squandered time an money widout car
as to what became of him. 1t am black
mail on industry-it am slap at
economy-it am kick at industry. How
does it come dat wild dis kentry constantly
CROWN in wealth, and constantly fur
nishing increased chances fur poo men
to get along, dat pauperism am also in
creasin'? Eight-tenths of de saloons in
America am supported by men whose
families need cherry cent dey arm fur
clothin' and bread, an who rely on public
charity in case of a hard WRITER. De
kentry has five times as many paupers as
it had fifteen vars ago Why? Kase
we raise five times as much money to
10 i g
poo fund an you will double de number
of paupers.
AN now LET me ask you a plain
queshun. If 1 work hard week in an
week out-if my wife works hard an
eeonomizes-if We patch, darn, dye an
cut ober-if we buy cheap tea an coffee, |
an pare de 'taters close, an manage to |
pay for little home, an put money in
human bein' right to ask me to give |
one penny to man who has thrown |
away scores of dollahs for beer an
tobacco-who plays keerds an shakes |
dice fur money-who works only when
he feels like it-who neber dreams of |
economy-who neber practices self
denial? I reckon not Let us now turn !
our faces towards de rowteen of bizness.'
THE RIGHT SORT OF SYMPATHY.
The Secretary announced a com
munication from Gratitude Scribewell, |
Secretary of the Nocturnal Perambula-
ting Club of the Eighth Ward, Syracuse,
the death of Shpback Bur
banks. The deceased was member of
the Nocturnal as well as the Lime-Kiln
Club, and at the last meeting of the
former, Brother Considerate Comfort
moved the following:
WHEREAS, It has been made plain to
our understanding, through the wise re-
marks of Brother Gardner, that resolu-
tons of sympathy will not feed and
clothe widows and orphans; now there
fore
ResotUed, That the treasury of the
Nocturnal Club be and is hereby directed |
to purchase six tons of coal and barrel
of beans for the family of our late
lamented brother.