The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1884-05-22
THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.

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Under tho heading OF "Tbe WolI
at the Door," tho Meadville Repub'
lican of recent date says: We
have always felt q kind OF curiosity
about what On Indian would do with
his money, providing he should get
sufficiently civilized to earn NOR
than enough to buy fire water and
blankets. We have found ont. The
annual distribution Of annuity goods
ut Lac Court Oreille reservation has
just been made to 1000 Indians
there. The Indians of this reser-
walton have been extensively engage
ed in logging during the past win-
ter, and have banked about SlS0.000
worth Of logs. They are well fed
and well clothed, some of them hav-
iug realized from $4,000 to $4,000
from the sale of their timber. All
have been ut work. And how do
they spend it ? First wbiskey, and
secondly-let the agents descrip-
ton answer They came up in
broadclo.h and kid gloves, with gold
watches, chaines and seals, to re-
ceive their dole OF ten pounds OF
-four and three pounds of pork per
capita" This is progress with q
yepgeance-but it is the progress
that, next to the beer glass. keeps
the most Of our laboring folks poor
There is Il multitude OF railroad
men, aud machines, and carpenters
in this country who work hard, ge,
good pay, but never have anything
ahead. 1t is nothing under the sun
but their "broadcloth and kid glove
policy which causes it. In oul
neighboring oil regions men are
earning as drillers and engineers
big pay, but driller with anything
ahead is speculator who isn't gray
beaded. They build a shanty aud
put Brussels carpet on tho front
room aud buy piano. They don't
always have two sheets on tho bed
but they are pretty sure to have @
bed stead as high as the ceiling.
The children don't always know how
to read, but at least ono OF them
takes music lessons. Every drillei
carries gold watch, while his em
ployer generally carries silver one.
Lot these men lose work and they
would not have enough ahead to
keep the family in johnnycake for @
week. Over in the Ohio mines a
week ago there was strike. The
men had no work for a month. They
had been earning $500 and $4.OC
per day, bur two weeks after the
work stopped, nearly every family
had to be furnished food. They
had Hved it out not in fine clothes
or fancy furniture, but had actually
eaten it up, why" said the own.
er Of the mine, as he trundled pork
and beans aud potatoes around to
them, II can't set such q table as
these fellows do. They buy straw
berries at seventy-6ve cents quart
and eat lettuce in January. They
won't be bothered with a pig, aud
| have to raise drove to keep then
from starving when out Of work.
1t seems q pity that the "poor In
dian" should be taught whiskey
drinking aud extravagance at the
out set. That when they do make q
strike, as in the Lac Court Oreillt
reservation, there should be nc
more sensible to follow than those oil
extravagant show. That the mex,
thing they learn after drinking i 6
throwing away their money, but ii
is the example that most OF our civ
ilized laborers set, so what oan- We
expect from the uncivilized !? "Lo
the poor Indian, aud 10, the pool
white man."