Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-19
MAR6HELL,
THE CASH GROCER,
WILL SAVE YOU MONEY,
CoMMoN SENSE VS. NONSENSE.

COMMON SENSE VS. NONSENSE.
To THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY:
The condition of our public roads has been
of interest to all Of US for some months I am
doing business approximating $4,000, and
employ some ~ wagons in different parts Of
our own and neighboring towns in the delivery
of goods. So this is q question in which have
an especial interest have seen so many ar
ticles of sentimental character that would
like to show little of the practical side.
Under ordinary conditions one driver with
one horse can delivery 500 worth Of my goods
in one day. For some months past owing to
the condition of the roads, have had to send
two men and two horses to deliver $50 worth Of
goods, making my expense Of delivery four
times as great. Recently 1 sent three drivers
with three good horses to deliver 4 little over
$50 worth of goods. 1 have none but good
sized, sound horses and in order to get good
drivers pay the highest wages-more than is
paid by any other man in my business.
My repair bill is very large. Last quarter It
was $50 for 10 wagons and this is only the be-
ginning. for my wagons were new, and have
been so Tacked and twisted they will be con-
slant bill of expense in the future.
This is no fancy sketch, but only plain state
ment Of what are to me very plain facts. My
road tax" for this IS what it amounts TO- is
very much larger than all my other taxes COM
been arrested, and, in fact, have never seen the
inside of the Mayors office OF Court House.
1t is a notorious fact that our workhouse Is
so comfortably managed that men daily break
our laws that they may be sentenced 20 1t. To
the class of people who are sent there the pun
ishment is a farce, and the lives Of the erimi-
nails there are more comfortable than the lives
Of honest laboring men outside.
Now, why should 1 be taxed so heavily to
pamper criminals? and why should honest labor
ers be SO Disseminated against as to place q
premium on rascality2 Why give further heed
to the sentimental gush Of men who labor
chiefly in sewing societies, and know nothing Of
practical affairs of lifs3 Why hire our criml-
nails at 30c per day to contractors who place
their work in competition with that of honest
men? Why tax the community further to huy
farms for the support of lazy rascals2 What
have the farmers done that they should be dis
criminated against? Why not sell the land we
already have and buy Iong-handled hammers
and set our criminals to breaking stones on our
public highways? Why provide elegant, warm
workshops palaces in appearance) for crimi-
nails when honest men work outside in the
cold7 Why not let practical common sense
rule In regard to criminals, when the lives Of
honest laborers are so bitterly practical with
wages at 81 Is per day, with which to buy food
for their families. and the mockery Of public
schools staring at them and no money with
which to buy booksP
Sell our palace workhouses; use the money to
buy books for our children, and make educa-
tion free IN reality as well as in name. Put our
criminals to breaking stone on our public high
ways and make their labor at least as hard a.
the labor Of honest men.