Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23

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le-da-da,
And have a penny in their pocket. la-da-da.
and many of them have little moro
than the penny in their pocket, ex-
pecting to pick gold pieces off the
street the moment they land. Take
the case of younger sons" A year
or SO ago the English papers teemed
with correspondence from parents and
guardians on the question:: "What
shall we do with our boys?" and to
judge from appearances they seemed
to have solved the problem by sending
them to America
AS rule these youngsters are abso.
lutely useless. Reared in comparative
luxury and fresh from some public
school, they are absolutely unable to
''hustle" for themselves. They are edu-
Gated, truly, and can construe Virgil or
Homer like parish priest, but there
their worldly education ends. What
are they to do? Go into an Office?
The offices are full of them, and there
are scores of women out of employ
ment who can write better letters and
keep better books, and who, moreover,
will work at half the wages that they
will. Work with their hands as a la
borer? Let them ask any labor bureau
to employ them, and see how they will
be laughed at. Why, tramp would
do more work for drink of whisky
than they could. Go West, young
man? Yes, and try and sit bucking
broncho. No, they are no good any
where. and yet they are nice young
fellows and mean we'll, and some of
them do well, but it will be found that
those who do well are men who have
been accustomed to hustle for them
selves before they ever came here.
The English colonies used to be the
great place to send ''Our boys to, but
lately the colonies have been over
stocked, and things are worse there
than they are in America. The writer
had an amusing experience of this
some years ago, while on visit to Aus
tralia- He was called upon in Mel
bourne by the brother of well-known
Scotch Baronet. and when the writer
asked him how he was getting on he
replied: Things are awful bad here.
Do you know what | am doing for 4
living? am chucking bricks from
schooner to the quay. | am not the
only swell at the game, for the man l
chuck the brick 10 for him to catch is
Lord -. a brother of the Marquis of
-" This is fact, but manual la
Dor was not thought so little of in Aus
tralia as it is here, and society" was
not greatly shocked. For instance, a
young fellow of equally good birth as
the Baronet's brother was obliged to
drive hanson cab in Melbourne for q
living. He had still the remains of the
swell outfit he had brought from En-
gland, among which was dress suit.
People knew very we'll who he was,
and sometimes he used to drive a 'fare''
to ball and then, after hitching his
horse up somewhere, throw off his over
coat and appear at the ball in immacu.
late evening costume, looking every
inch the gentleman he was. One night
at a ball in Melbourne the writer APP
preached friend, who was leaning up
against a pillar, looking bored and
tired, and asked him why he didn't go
home. Il would like to-" was the re-
ply, "but that blamed cabby of mine
is engaged for two more dances.
Think of this happening in demo-
cratic America, where all men are
equal! What howl there would be!
The fate of the clerk who comes here,
often with wife, is, if any thing,
worse than that of the younger son.
To come to this country he has proba-
bly, severed every connection in the
old, and could not, even if he would.
return. He must stay here and do
what he can. and that is but little. As
a rule. he joins the NOZZLE army of men
to whom the sign of "book-agentS,
peddlers and canvassers of all kinds
not admitted here" has the same sig
nificance as 'man-traps and SPRING
guns" has to the tramp.
What is the remedy for this and how
can assisted emigration" be put .
stop to? The answer is simple. There
is no remedy and it can not be
stopped. Just as long as there are
steamers to bear people who pay their
fare across the ocean, and dry land for
them to step upon when they arrive
here, just SO long will people come to
This country, tempted by its vastness
and lured by the hope that their hands
will pluck the lucky bean from the
lottery bag. Pointing to the long
stretch of bleaching skeletons that lie
upon the track has no effect upon
them, so sin Gods name, my masters,
cen let 'em come" The only thing
the press and public may do, even if it
should have no effect, is to point out
to them that they are coming to no
FOOLS paradise, and that if they are to
starve they had much better starve in
heir own country, as six by two feet
IF land in the cemetery here is just as
lear as it is in the old country. Chica-
10 .NeaCs.