Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-01-19
FOR W0RKlNGMEN
Who Dwell in Two.room Palaces and
Live on the Fat Of the Land for One
Dollar a Day.

set, that it is not going to be any Demo
crat and Republican "taffy" either, but
it is going to be square.teed, hat-foot
ed, Greenback talk. and it is going tC
be in good, plain, English language, sc
that you can understand it without this
aid of Webster's unabridged distion
AIRY.
In tho first place we want to ask you
how you manage to live and support
your family2
You get one dollar per day, do you
not?
You work, if you are constantly EN-
ployed about three hundred days every
year, do you notp
Then you get, in round numbers
about $500 per year?
Where does it go to-
You pay five dollars per month fol
rent, which makes $50 per year fol
rent alone?
And what an elegant home you car
get for five dollars per month, can't
you? What magnificent parlorsl What
large windows to let the sunlight OF
heaven into your family circiel What
excellent bath rooms! What comfort,
uble sleeping rooms What beautiful
large yard, for the children to play in
during the hot summer days. What
luxury! What splendor!
All for five dollars per month
Then you have to furnish clothing
for yourself, wife and three children.
You get two pairs of boots and shoes
for each member of your family dur.
ing the year, say at an average of one
dollar each for the wife and children
and four dollars for pair for yourself,
making in all $l6 for boots and shoes
for the whole year.
THIS is very extravagant 1t is about
as much as an ordinary national banker
would pay for single pair of boots,
that he would throw away as unfit for
national banker to wear at the end
of two months!
for five Snnnose we "Inmu II" and
saw that Won eynend fra magnifcont
sum of five dollars each for your child
ren-and now gOrgeously they would
be arrayed and ten dollars each for
yourself and YOU wife - this would
innr WV
And irdood bow crond,y ror ,o
"rar"ei ont "wonIdn,t yonS 'Iust y thirt
Of il Thirry five dollars far clothes for
- uho,a raniiy of Gva norSnnoS r0, 80 W. tU
Won wouId be putting on style epouch
to attand Raachar,s chnrcH and baar
tha old man nr.ocb oionnont sormons
ahomt mon liying IN a dollor a davi
Then Won mnst have cna, 70 hnrr
Siv mGnths NJ the vesr yon will rso
,for ynnr narlors yomr Lininaro", w
and vonr kitrhenr NOT loss than n ,on
of soft cooI nor montb and dnrira tTa t
otber siy montbs yon can gat .sIonn
with ahout two toms moLinc einht tons
dnring tho wo,r for wh;nS Hon % Iii
have to nav shont four dolIars NOR ton
mr. 900 fnr tho wLoIo p' ''''
Now them Won have cot vour rart
vonr coal and yonr clothes noid for ond
you hovo got $1S7 Iaft ''''
Won vii Want s1N ,noro sor ,;,b,,
wafer schoo,.hooks etc and 90 mncb
more for all other eynpnses~ evcont
food
So that vou bave left s197 With
which IN Inv broad for family Of
five
This makes abort tbirtv.evo certs
ner dav 1'''
Seven cents a baadI
Now. then, take your little market.
buskct and LET ia % 70 market with
your tbirty.five cents and hnv one
day's provisions,
iIara wa arc Mr. Rutcber. ,ivo II.
onp of those nortarbomse steats-iust
snch as Won sent over to Mr. Rapkar,a
this Morning
How much will we havep
Enonoh for three meals for I've nor.
sons
Ahout four noundu do vou sav II
will take Mr. Bntcherp
How much is il a noundp
F,ftoor contel
that will make s;v,v oerts roar,v
tuico 90 much 90 wa hove for avory
thing for the whole dav
Vor NOW nut baoL hot rortorbor,o
oteaG NJ Rptcbar ' '''N''
How n,uch ia that ,bant bona Mr.
pntohorS ~
Tmontr va contop
Iye,I cvar any, That 10 n,oro tbor yo c,r
spare for to-day but if we can manage
to eel along without any meat for two
days possibly we can save PENNIES
enough to buy a soup-bone twice a
week,
So we will consider that we have
saved eight cents towards the semi.
weekly bone, and we have twenty.
seven cents left.
At the bakers we get three loaves
of bread-what, three loaves of bread
for Ave persons, and one working
man, working ten hours a day?-at six
cents per loaf, leaving nine cents, for
whatp
Half a peck of potatoes!
No butter, no other vegetables than
potatoes; no eggs, no sugar, no coffee,
M teo,