Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-19
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The Sunday Newsboy QuestiOn.An1 Ideal
sum meriug CoiOny-A New Journalistic
Venture Musical, Social, 0snsrai and
Artistic Notes.
How any one with charitable impulses
could bring himself to vote for the ordinance
introduced In Council last Tuesday night,
against allowing the poor newsboys to earn
their few pennies by the sale Of Sunday pa
pers, it seems impossible to fathom. The ordi-
nance is framed with all the "terror and
menace of the law, and makes the maximum
fine for the heinous crime Of crying out the
name Of paper on Sunday $25 and costs,
and this, mind. In city where the milknen
are allowed to summon their customers to the
gate by means Of blowing ghastly and bat
tered cornets, and banging triangles and
drums, or anything they please; where ice
cream fakirs drive over the city, shouting their
frozen wares In voice audible for miles
where the Salvation Army 10 allowed to 60
yelling, shouting, banging drums and playing
discordant horns at any hour Of the day or
night; where dives Of the lowest kind are
rmtted to exist, and where the "chpies'
parade the streets at all times, plying
their nefarious avocation without a hint
OF molestation - in city where
all this is allowed it is proposed to invoke the
strong arm Of the law, to wiring the few pen
nies out OF the toil-worn hands Of the little
lie. sboys, and prevent them from plying
their honest trade. II 10 such laws az this
that fl our jsils and reform farms.
Will any citizen Of Springfield rise to his
feet and make the deliberate statement that
his precious rest is 90 broken on Sunday
morning by the CHEEKY cries Of the little news
boys that he desires to have law passed
that will wiring from their chubby fists the
few pennies they earn by the sale OF Sunday
papers7
No class could work harder for their money
than the boys who sell the Sunday papers.
No heat, no cold frightens them. ! often
watched a tiny little lad, but six years old, as
he braved the coldest mornings Of last winter,
trudging mourniully along his route with his
bundle o: papers uudsr his arm and his brave
little voice ringing cheerfully out on the
wintry cir as he called the names Of his
papers with bis baby accents. The coldes,
zero mornings he never finched. On
these coldest mornings his head was muflled
with shawl warm, tattered shawl
wrapped around him by the tender fingers Of
his widowed mother, whose needlework, sup
plemented by the pennies which this little
creature earned, barely suficed to keep the
wolf from the door.
Oh, most wise ordinancei Oh, wonderful
law! What noble state of civilization will
we have reached, when We have silenced the
voice Of this little creature, lest Il should dis.
turb the Sunday morning nap of some we'll.
to-do citizen, reposing on his downy couch,
preparatory TO q luxurious breakfast.
The above instance may be considere
overdrawn. 1t would be easy to give name,
Of dozen such cases. II any one doubts
lot him 60 to the Sunday newspaper Offices
." Sunday morning. Let him look at oil
tne boys, let him ask their histories, and he
will see what a piece Of cruelty /, would be
to deprive them Of their occupations.
No one has any idea how much
Tue SUNDAY papers are read and en-.
joyed in this city. They are more
generally read BY the workingmen that day
than any other. A poor man works bard ali
week long. Sunday arrives, and he wants
his paper Is it fair to compel this tired
tollsr to walk mile it may bs-to get biz
Sunday paper ? The only possible way to
reach these customers 10 by the little news.
boys. All the Sunday papers double thei,
size on that day, and are invaluable to the
mass OF the people, in an educational sense
Many a young man spends bis Sunday a,
home with his paper, when be would other.
wise be out losfing around the city.
The ordinance is direct slsp iu the face
OF the poor--it aims 10 toke Il . hard learned
bread from the mouths Of the poor newsboys
and 1t puts the poor workingmen to grea,
inconvenience in getting their papers. In
Cincinnati, Cleveland and the other cities Of
Ohio the papers are sold exactly as they are
In Spring6eld-by newsboys.
Why arc not the Sunday store keepers
again attacked as they were last summer
simply because they retallate In a
highly inconvenisnt manner, and
propose that II they are TO be kept from
lifting their hands on Sunday, every one
else shall as we'll. The little newsboys are
defenseless.
When Springfield was in the m,ds. Of her
crusade against the cigar dealers and coach
men last summer, . big "gufiaw" went up
from the press from Maine to California
Springfield was referred to % q "country
village, struck with the blue law craze" and
every change Of ridicule was rung on II by
the newspapers, thus injuring the reputation
OF the town as . brisk, wide-awake city.
Everyone 10 aware that nothing whatever,
except bitter feelings, was accomplished by
the movement.
The Grand Opera House will probably be
opened about the middle OF September. with
the newly organized Frank McNish minstrel
The party Of Springfield people from South
Market street.-the Book walters, Scots, Win
'srs' and the other families In the party
seem to have struck the ideal plan Tor passing
y charming summer. One Of the party who
was here on business said, yesterday:
1--WE are located on Johnson's Islsnd. q
beautiful little island about three hundred
acres In extent, and located about two miles
and half across the bay from Ssudusky.
We had the good fortune to secure the resi-