Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-03
Driven out Of Town.

A novel sight was witnessed yeSUer-
day morning, when two wagon loads
of ''tramps" pulled away from the
jail. 1t was an effort made by the
city to get rid of some of It's unprOfit-
able servants without giving the city
or county the expense of keeping
them The wagons contained twenty
five Migrants guarded by officers. +
They were transported to the city /
limits and there set down with orders /
to leave. They were left In charge Of /
officers Bohannan and Barr on horses
who started the herd off toward Kan
sas City. They were not allowed to |
halt but driven relentlessly for SIX
miles. The officers left them this
side Of Brighton and threatened them
with unutteTable wrath if they dared
to return. DegUer NelCs.
How inhuman, how unchristian,
how brutal! Because man is friend
less and homeless, he is treated like a
vicious wild beast. Not long ago ten
or twelve tramps were taken out by
officers Of Fairbury, Nebraska, and
fogged brutally on the bare backs
for no crime except poverty; they
were not accused of the commission
of any crimes; the fogging was done
in violation of law. They were driv-
en- out of town. Soft is coming to
this that the cities drive poor men in
to the country and smaller towns, and
the towns in turn will drive them
back again, treating them with about
as much fendishness as a 1I0dOc In
dian would treat an enemy. How
disgraceful are such practices to a
great nation that boasts of its christ
ian institutions. Magnificent cathe-
drals and grand churches costing
millions, are being erected IN all the
large cities, vast sums Of money are
contributed every year to send mis-
sionaries to foreign heather for the
PRONUNCIATION Of the doctrines Of do
ing unto others as we would that
others should do unto US, taught by
the meek and Iowly Jesus, and yet
who does not know, that is a close OBJ
server of affairs as they exist, that
there IS all over this country, such a
self-ughteous, money-worshiping, I'M
christian spirit prevalent that if Je-
sus and his twelve poverty stricken.
outwardly rough, fshermen-disciples,
were to be seen in Fairbury, Denver
or thousands Of other places in this
land, they would be arrested as va
grants, perhaps ''fogged on the bare
backs and relentlessIy driven out Of
town. They would receive but a colo
welcome in any aristocratic church
house in America. if indeed they were
allowed a seat in one Of them at all
To the honor and credit Of the trut
christian, who is always humane
kind and forgiving to the unfortunate
and even to the wrong doer, it mus
be said that he does not and canno
! endorse the heartlessness, cruelty
) and brutality mentioned in this art
icle.
r We would not commend idlenes
: nor profigacy, but we cannot with
hold our earnest protest against TIT
passage of a law in one of the eastern
states which makes it a crime to Civ,
l a tramp a cup of cold water or
| crust Of bread or a shelter over night
! and a public sentiment which treats
poor, ignorant, perhaps a mental.
badly balanced human beng wors
than wild beast.
So long as trusts and monopolie
and land stealings, and railroad sub
sides and watering of corporation
J. stocks and Board of Trade gamblings
and other ubiquitous schemes are per
mitted and encouraged by our laws
the object of which is to rob the in
dustrailist and gobbleu p.theproduct
Of labor, combinations that hav
. stolen millions of acres of land anC
: billions Of dollars from the men VIII,
earned them by labor, that long w
have some excuse to offer in behal
> Of the homeless, friendless men an,
i women.
- The following illustrates the crue
Is feeling entertained by some towar
S the men out of empIoyment-th
g friendless, homeless ones Gale
I tramps:
A dispatch from Findlay, Ohio
says: Thomas Bengal. a farmer /