The Nevada picayune., 1885-01-22
Our Poor.

pie now is to know who the pool :. are, and how to keep them. Oul country is over-run with class ot people called "tramps." They l are really wonderfully strange race of people, embracing hlikost all
 nationalities, but strange to say, most Of them are Americans. They are hard race-'hever very well dressed, but generally 'eothforta. ble. They are all in search of work, but are very sure never to
 go where there is any danger of finding any. They slways ask for work first, and then something to
 eat. If the best is not furnished them they will if not watched : throw it away, and seek another
 place. They can manage to slip around back ways and appear at
 your back door or your kitchen as
 if they had dropped down out of
 the clouds. Very sly and extreme
 ly careful. Where did they come
 fromi Out of what sort of people are they made and who makes themT Are they not, as a general
 thing, the thrown off rubbish of saloons; but class of men sal looms never feed. Churches fur nish no tramps. The churches will
 and do take care of the poor, why should not saloons do the sarne
 thing. Befbfe the war these
 tramps were not known in the l South, and no city of 23,OOO peo- pie could run over fifty saloons. AS these saloons have multiplied, so tramps and criminals have null tiplied till the country is deluged and over-run with both. These tramps spend all their ready cash for drink and then beg for some 7 thing to eat, andwe are creditably
 informed that these saloon mesl
 send these trahps to prey upon the
 better class of society. Ought they to bed fedi Is it charity to feed
 them' We answer both questions with an emphatic No! Give them . work if you have it, if not, send them where they can get it. It is an absolute wrong to teed these men and encourage idleness and
 crime. Feed lame men, help wo. men and children, but let lazy, TO- wing men to be put to work. Cease
 10 feed them in towns and cities, and they will knd their way to the country where they are wanted to t work. There are great many
 worthy poor people in our State. } We have two inferior crops in many places, and this with des:ruc. tive overhows, has brought on dis tress. Be certai't to help the real ly needy. We arc abundantly
 commanded to help the poor in the Bible, and there are many pre- cious promises to those who do. Remember, if we feed and take : care ofthe poor in the narae of our Master, we are ministering to him
 and he will not lose sight of it, but
 will say, "Inasmuch as ye have
 done it unto one of the least of
 these, my brethren, ye have
 done it unto me-" How sweet these words now, but oh, how
 much sweeter they wiH be in the day ofjudgment. But beloved,
 do not imagine that you are allow. cd to engage in any business that is wrong CT even doubtful with the
 excuse that you want to help the
 poor. It will not do to deal in fu. lures to help the poor, neither will be helping the poor make a wicked
 bargain right or change the nature
 of ll.gotten Gains. Many saloon man is trying to ease his conscience
 in his soul. ul.destroying and murder Ous business by saying he will help the poor. See how ready they are
 to attend all meetings for the poor and give to all calls of that sort. It is hush money to conscience. We would never consent to serve on committees for the relief of the DO or, when men whose very bnsi
 ness is to make poor people and fill the country with crime and pover- crty. Stop your wicked traffic
 and we would not have so many calls for charity. Let these men
 go to the rear and feel the degre- : dation of their business. We call : upon all people to be charitable te the poor. Go seek the needy and , find the foot prints of Jesus in the
 homes of the lonely. Here you