The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-23
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There you ma what are called tne
'fences," the men who stand between
the thief and the honest man, shelter
ing the thief and at a great price hand
ing over the goods to the owner TO
whom they belong. There you will
find those who are called the Skin
ners, F." the men who hover around Wall
street, with great sleight OF hand in
bonds and stocks. There you find the
funeral thieves, the people who go and
sit down and mourn with families and
pick their pockets. And there you find
the confidence men," who borrow
money of you because they have dead
child in the house and want to bury it,
when they never had house or fami-
ly or they want to go to England and
get large property there, and they
want you to pay their way, and they
will send the money back by the very
next mail.
There are the ''harbor thieves" the
''shoplifters, the ''pickpockets," ia
nous all over the cities. Hundreds OF
them with their faces in the 'rogue's
gallery" yet doing nothing for the last
five or ten years but defraud society
and escape justice. When these people
go unarrested and UNPUBLISHED, it is
putting high premium upon vice and
saying to the young criminals OF this
country, "What a safe thing it is to be
great criminall" Let the law swoop
upon them Let it be known in this
country that crime will have no quar-
ter, that the detectives are after it, that
the police club is being brandished,
that the iron door of the prison is be-
ing opened, that the judge is ready to
call on the case. Too great leniency TO
criminals is too great severity to soc-
ETY..
Again. in your effort to arrest this
plague of crime you need to consider
the idle population. Of course l do
not refer to people who are getting old,
or to the sick or to those who cannot
get work, but tell you to look out for
those athletic men and women who
will not work. When the French no.
bleman was asked why he kept busy
when he had so large property he
said, 81 keep on engraving so l may
not hang myself" l do not care who
the man is, you cannot afford to be
idle. 1t is from the idle classes that
the criminal classes are made up
Character like water, gets putrid if it
stands still too long. Who can wonder
that in this world, where there is SO
much to do, and all the hosts of earth
and heaven and he'll are plunging into
the conflict, and angels are flying and
God is at work, and the universe is
a-qdake with the marching and counter
marching, that God lets his indignation
fall upon man who chooses idleness2
have watched these do-nothings who
spend their time stroking their beard,
and retouching their toilet, and criti-
cising Industrious people, and pass their
days and nights in barrooms and club
houses, lounging and smoking and
chewing and card playing They are
not only useless, but they are danger
GUS 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
have all eternity on their hands?
These men for awhile smoke the best
cigars, 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 gallows
INvINCIBLE LAzINESS.
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 far
nished to able bodied men and women
people as able to work as you and
are. When they are received no longer
at one police station, because they are
''repeaters, they go to some other sta
ton, and so they keep moving around.
They get their food at house doors,
stealing what they can lay their hands
on in the front basement while the ser
want is spreading the bread in the back
basement. They will not work. Time
and again, in the country districts,
they have wanted hundreds and thou
sands of laborers. 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
fered to pay them well for it, 1 have
heard the saw going for about three
minutes, and then | went down, and
10, 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.
While there are thousands of indus
trious 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 restoration of the old
fashioned whipping post for just this
one class ofsmea WHO will not work,
sleeping at night Il public expense in
the station house, during the day get
ting their food at your doorstep. I'm
prisonment does not scare them They
would like it. Blackwells Island or Sing
Sing would be comfortable home for
them. They would have no objection
to the almehouse for they like thin
soup, if they cannot get mock turtle.
propose this for them: On one side
of them put some healthy work; on the
other side put rawhide, and let them
take their choice / like for that class
of people the scant bill of fare that
Paul wrote out for the Thessalonian
loafers, ''Hany work not, neither should
he eat" By what law of God or man
is it right that you and l should toll
day in and day out, until our hands are
blistered and our arms ache and our
brain gets numb, and then be called
upon to support what in the United