Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06

your methods OF transacting business. That
Is all. As you are now you are restrained
by certain prejudices which result from
early training and present environment. In
other words, you are conyentionalIy respect
able. Emancipate yourself from that re-
strlctlon. Never mind about respectability.
Go ahead and get money.
AT this moment as 1 write, the voice Of
this emancipated man reaches me through
the open window. Up the street wonder he
is standing in a modified sort of circus
wagon, making loud-mou!hed speeches to a
gawky crowd of possible customers. Four
horses with red blankets OF cotton velvet
covering toss their heads in front of the We
hicle. By the light of surrounding torches
the man himself shows gorgeously in a suit
OF red cotton velvet In the pauses of his
speech he plays on an accordion and sings.
This is his emancipated method OF selling
lotion Tor rheumatism. According to his
old prejudices this way would appear some
what abominable. According to his pres-
ent enlIghtment it appears rather in the
light OF missionary effort. Undoubtedly.
the man is making money.
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BeIlamy's Pretty Picture.
All these doubtful matters will be settled
one way or another in that good time which
Mr.. Bellamy and his friends see coming this
way. The struggle for money-getting will
be ended then for all of US. Nobody will
have to DO without enough; and nobody will
be overworSed in the getting of his full
share. That is delightful to think of. But
there is another side to the beautiful picture.
L lear that this other side might prove a
seamY side to some of those who are now
enthusiastic in their clamor for the promised
order Of things
They are charmed with the thought that
nobody will be overworked. Will they be
equally charmed by the hard fact that no
body will be underworked? Every man and
woman OF Us will have to do a full share Of
work IN one shape or another. Not one Of
us can shirk it, under penalty of sore trib-
ulatlon. That is consideration to make
plenty of people ''stop, look, listen" as the
courts urge upon persons at the railroad
crossings. They have not thought of the
matter in that light. II the Bellamy dream
comes true, their whole scheme of lie will
be broken up. Therefore, if for nothing
else, let US all pray that this, or some other
dream as radical, may speedily prove to
have been prophecy. For really, commu-
mites can get along with a great deal Of
overwork more tolerably than they can en-
dure the professional and habitual idleness
they have to put up with.
Chances for Improvement,
Here is an able-bodied young fellow whom
I hope to see hitched to the sweep of horse
power and made to run threshing machine
several hours day. In the existing state
o. things his mother takes in washing. and
is working her way to the grave as rapidly
as possible. She sees him three times a day,
when he comes home to eat the food she has
prepared for him. The rest of the time he
holds char nicely balanced on its hind
legs under the awning of a cigar shop. II
It were not for recurring meal times, COM
pelling him to take walk, every part Of
him but his jaw would grow stiff and rusty
or want of use.
Here is another whom it would be
pleasant to see breaking stone for the i'm
proved roads we are to have in that promised
lime. A very bright and pretty girl is
waiting or him to get money enongh ahead
% marry her. And the way he is getting
t is by occupying the chair next to the first
elbow under the awning. There is plenty
" work he could get to do, even in this de-
,enerate time; but it is not of kind suited
o his taste; so he sits still and forgets the
little he formerly knew.
That social and political system of re-
orm, which does not make the hoodlum-
oafer i'm possible, will be vain end de-
usive imagining. He will not work un-
ess compelled to, and the possibility of
uch compulsion would be a strong argu-
nent in favor of any Utopia that might be-
proposed. JAMES c. PURDY.