Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-16
W0rkingElen to the Front.

As rule no class of men in this coun-
try have better chances for improving
their position than what is known as the
wage-workers.
pemagogues may talk about how they
are oppressed by monopolies; but, if SO,
whose fault is it? Where there is one
''bloated bondholder" there are one thou
sand "sons of toll" In this country the
aristocrat and the laborer each have a
vote. Jay Gould can vote but once on the
day OF election, and so can the humblest
citizen in the land. If the workingmen
are abused by the men elected to office, it
is their own fault if they do not prevent
its re-occurrence.
The duty OF wage-earners, as of every
other class in the community, is to make
intelligent efforts to improve their condi-
ton in life and to increase their efficiency
and power to do good.
All can't be bosses. The effect on some,
ii placed in charge of grave responsible
lies, would be to be sent to bed with a
splitting headache. The capacity to en-
dure responsibilities comes after years of
preparatory education.
All cannot endure prosperity. Give
some men $1,000 tonight, and in less
than month their pale faces and anxious
looks would prove to you that you had
done them an injury instead of benefit
ing them. The power to use $1,000 Alright
usually comes after an experience of
properly taking care of 800.
The worklngman IN the rural districts,
who has steady employment and a neat
little cottage, with garden to occupy
MS spare hours, is generally the happiest
man this side of Heaven. OF course all
men have their troubles. So far as the
wealthy business men of our cities are
concerned, one look at their forlorn faces.
marked with Sorrows feet" from the fore
head to the chin, ought to satisfy the
most skeptical that call that glitters is
not gold"
In mining districts there is no doubt
that the honest toilers are treated more as
brutes than as human beings. The reason
tor that is that the monopolies are pro-
tected by congress, while the laborers are
severely let alone by that august body of
legislators. Whose fault is that?. Let
the ballot-boXes of the mining districts
answer.
In this country almost every intelligent
mechanic can earn enough, il he studies
economy, to buy ground upon which to
bulid house. The price he must pay
Tor that is to let liquor and all unnecessa-
ry Injuries alone.
The children of the workingmen are
generally the best looking and healthiest
in the land. All they want is an educa-
ton; that can be had free in our public
schools, after which they can take care of
themselves. As to their wives, il papa
Keeps sober and speaks kindly they will
cheerfully bear the tolls of life while the
cnidrep are young, waiting for the day
when John, Dick and Mary can lend a
helping hand in filling the family purse.
.Workingmen of America, your lot in
IRE might be worse. The grindstones of
Europe have not been placed around
your necks. II you listen to the advice
of your wives instead of listening to lazy,
imported discontents, you will be more
and better prepared to fight
the real battles of life.
Goodness, industry, sobriety and fru-
gal habits will make pleasant and thrifty
homes. A horse and COW in the barn is
better than Q cellar full of empty bottles.
4 neatly dressed wife, singing about the
ponse like canary bird beats all the
fun you viii eyer have by visiting the
country bar-room or other places of
temptation or doubtful amusement. A
walk through the woods with your chill
dren will be better and the company more
congenlal, than q serpentine walk with
bli! Granger aud Tom Smith with
snrlcks IN their hats"
The future for the sober mechanics in
tnls country is fun OF possibilities. They
number legions, aud il they will only
ssuoy their own interests and each en-
ceavor to excel in his own department of
inoor so as to be ready to rise as the op-
Portunity comes to him, they are the real
s1a?ters OF the situation. Most of the
npaSeists in the country began poor, and
tnsy dlQ not make their way up by growl-
Ing y those who had got ahead of them.
The days OF sitting down and crying
neceuee You were NOT born rich are past.
1ne victory over poverty and adverse cir
cumsteuces is to those who have the "get
Up and get" to leap over every barrier
Inc price It costs to rise from obscurity
TO comparative csmtort is honest, intelli-
gent toll and the letting alone of all those
things that disgrace men and keep them
down.
Horaoe Greeley, when he went to
church peed to sit with his eyes closed,
thinking abont what the minister said.
4 nephew OF his once told him not to act
that way, No everybody noticed him. The
reply that he got wass xeq zpR
plsyirg billiards ip salo y
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