Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-13

work ana the universe is a-quake with the
marching and counter marching, that God
lets his indignation fall upon a man who
chooses idlencssH
/ h.,Vc watched these do-uOthings who
spend tigir time strOl NJ their beard and
retouching their toilet and criticising in.
husiHoli people, and pass their days and
4 nights IN barrooms and club houses, lOung-
ing and smoking and chewing and card
playing They are not only useless, but
they are dangerous. How hard it is for
them to while away the hours Alas, for
them! If they do not know how to while
away an hour, what will they do when
they haye all eternity on their hands'
These men for a while smoke the best ci,
gpr5 and wear the best clothes and move
in the highest spheres, but have noticed
that very soon they come down to the
prison, the almshouse, or stop at the gal
lows.
The police Stations of this cluster OF
cities furnish annually between two and
three hundred thousand lodgings For the
most part these two and three hundred
thousand lodgings are furnished TO able
bodied men and women-pcople as able to
work as you and are When they are re-
ceiVed no longer at one police station be-
cause they are 'repeaters" they go to
some other station, and so they keep NOV
ing around. They get their food at house
doors, stealing what they can lay their
hands Oh in the front basement while the
servant is spreading the bread in the back
basement. They will not work Time and
again, in the country districts, they have
| wanted hundreds and thousands of labor
ers These men will not go. They do not
| want to work. | have tried them. | have
set them to saving wood in my cellar to
see whether they wanted to work. | Of.
iercd to pay them well for it. ! have
| heard the saw going for about three min
utes, and then | went down, and lot the
wood, but no saw! They are the pest of
society," and they stand in the way of the
Lords poor who ought to be helped and
must be helped, and will be helped
Nhlle there are thousands of industrious
men who cannot get any work, these men
who do not want any work come in and
make that plea. am in favor of the res
toration Of the old fashioned whipping post
for just this one class of men who will not
housekeeping at night at public expense
in the station house; during the day get
ting their food at your doorstep Impris-
Onment does not scare them. They would
| like it, Blaclwclls Island or Sing Sing
would be a comfortable home for them
| They would have no objection to the aims
house. for they like thin soup, if they can
4 not get mock turtle.
! propose this for them: On one aide of
| them put some healthy work; on the OF her
| side put a rawhide, and let them take their
choice, like for that class Of people the
scaut bill Of fare that Paul wrote out for
| heThessalonian loafcrs, "If amy work not,
neither should he eato by what law OF
| God or man is it right that you and
/ should toll day in and day out, until our
| hands are blistcred and our arms ache and
| our brain gets numb, and then be called
| upon to support what in the United States
are about two million loafrrs. They are
very dangerous class. Let the public au-
! thorites keep their eyes on them
THE ILL TREATED BECOME DESPERATE.
Again, among the uprootiug classes !
| place the oppressed poor, Poverty to
| certain extent is Christening, but after that,
when it drives a man to the wall, and he
hears his children cry in vain for bread, it
sometimes makes him desperate | think
chat there are thousands of honest men
| Mccratcd into yagabondism There are
men crushed under burdens for which they
are not half paid While there is no ex-
cuse for crminality, even in oppression,
state it as a simple fact hat much of the
bcoundrelism of the community is conse-
qucut upon i'll treatment There are many
men and women battered and bruised and
stung until the hour of despair has come.
and they stand with the fcrocity of wild
| beast which, pursued until it can run no
| longer, turns round, foaming and bleeding,
/ to fight the hounds.
! There il a vast UNDERGROUND Now York