The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-06-07
UNCLE JEFF SNOW.
His Opinion of "Tramps" and the
Men Who Make Them.
tSalem (0r.) Yidette !


People hev an idee that tramps be-
come tramps jest from pure likin' of the
business, and are allus stealin' and bum
min from one place to another because
they are too lazy to work" said the old
man, as he kicked the dog outdoors and
put some more wood on the fire.
'Now, there are considerable num-
Der Of tramps in this yere country that
are as honest as-well, as honest as Van
derbilt, ef not a burned sight more SO.
Eff folks would quit cussin' tramps and
talk about shootin' 'em on sight, for a
spell, and turn their shootin' and cussin
onto the men that makes EN- tramps,
they would become so scarce that man
might live on country road and not see
one once year. Eff them legislative
fellers would keep sober long enough to
think straight, they would quit passin'
laws sendin' tramps to State prison for
askin' for bread. They would 60 for the
men that hog all the land, go as poor
man can't buy it, saddle their taxes on
the farmer so that he can't hire any help,
and charge a man such fortune for
car-ticket that he'd rather walk.
Them bloated dead beats and thievin
tramps of Senators up in Washington are
maxim tramps as fast as they can by
keepin' honest settlers off Uucle Sans
lands that them railroads are spreadin'
over up here in Oregon, and about 20
other States besides. Il say, Danl, les
look at that necktie of yourn. That
makes % since Christmas. After you
an Maria Whittlejohn are married it
won't be neckties that will be botherin'
you-it will be bread and meat; for I
don't calkerlate that you shall lean much
on dc ole man,
''Them poor devils that worked like
mules for Willard last summer, and did
not git their pay, are some Of 'em tramps
now
"When man works hard an honest
for spell, and then don't git his pay,
while thief that beats him out of it gifts
hull State to turn out an treat him like
a savior OF his country, don't wonder
that he's kinder suspicious of workin'
hard agin. l don't stare when / hear he
is in the penitentiary for stealth or hung
for murder. don't blame him for sayin'
that the harder man works the less he
gifts; an ef W. II. Vanderbilt kin steal
the most OF what every farmer IN the
State kin raise, why can't he beat a
little cold victuals an old duds out OF
EN-?
why don't they take up land an
work for livin'?' Go down to Sar
Quentin, in Calforny, where some are
in striped clothes for sellin their owr
houses, after the railroad company hat
run 'em off the land they took up an
made homes Of, an ask them
Look all over Oregon, and the hull o
the Western States, for that matter, ant
see hull square miles of land owned b,
foreign dead.beats and aristocrats, tina
free Amerikin citizens have been run OF
Of, beat out Of and bluffed away from
Every forty acres given to railroads, ant
which they have sold to spectators, ant
lords, and dukes, and English companie
OF land thieves hes made tramp! Ever,
railroad that has got land honestly o
dishonestly-but gotten mostly by frau,
though, has made hundreds of tramps b.
running men off from their homes, keep
ing settlers off the land by charging te
times the government price, and skeerin
men from goin' on TO real free land fo
fear that aome burned Secretary of tn
Interior, or the Supreme Court woul
take it away from 'em. MARY Ann, yo
amt goin' to no ball tonight, beaux q
no beaux come fer you. Them clothe
need 'ras'lin' with to.morrer, and 20
amt goip' to let the ole woman an
Sal do it all while you lay abed and rea
novels like you did last week. Can
help it. Soak the paste out of ther
bangs, and git out yer duds for washil
IN, so es to git at it early to.morrer morr
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