The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-23
THE RAILWAY WORLD,
OFFICIALS BEsIEGED ny APPLI-
cANTs FOR WORK.
BurIinEton omcinIs visit Texas.
santa Fe improvements Contcm-
plated MT Fort worth-Dnldy
Conncu TnIl<s-LocnI Notes.

a Post reporter was seated in the roac
master!a office of the Southern Pacific
/ yesterday when a dirty, haggard-looldnt
| face was stuck over the railing and q
voice that seemed to indicate the speak
er's expectancy OF a refusal said:
WHATS de chance OF Il Teller gettin
job wild de section gang? I'm out Of
work and would like to set somethin' &c
do.
Clerk Stewart promptly responded that
there was no help needed tor the force
tire or anywhere else on the line. end
/ the inquirer shuuled OK with look OF
dependency on his dirt-hesrmed lace,
DO you nave many appllcatons IKE
that Mr.. STEWART the reporter inquired.
wei, / guess we do. | think on an
average there have been twenty-five men
here during every day for the past two
months. OF course Il great many OF them
are professional tramps who DO not
want work but simply ask for IT to have
some excuse for prowlinG around the
yards. The majority, though, are men
who really need a job and are willing TO
90 anything In the world they can. /
don't know what becomes OF them. We
haven't hired any men here for a long
Tune, Formerly we We're being continually
wired for men TO i'll in section gangs all
along the line. Now we are never asked
for any as they can pick up as many as
they want on the road from the great
number OF people who are tramping over
the country in search OF work"
And then the reporter had subject for
serious thought ana set his thinking ma
chime Mt work for awhile.
what must man do when he can't
md work? When a person is eager and
able to work and then finds all the ave-
MUGS Of employment filled to such an eS-
tent that there IS no room for another
pair Of hands, is it his duty to lie down
and die-tO st0rVe? Must he be content
to do this, or must he SteRlH is the issue
before the army of unemployed one OF
stealing or starving?
Crowds of men with scoWlinC yiSages
ana made desperate by hunger take
charge of an empty bCNCor and compel
the train crew TO transport them from
here and there-everywherc Whose fault
is 1t that they are refused work on every
side? Certainly not that of the man or
corporation with no vacancy that needs
blamed for being without position2
Very often he Is. as there are many cases
Where drunkenness or Crme lost them
their former employment. But many more
education and who in ordinarily good
times would be able to earn livelihood
and something more. Many are clerks
and mechanics, and numerous other
trades are represented. Whose fault
is that they do not get work. VIII
my lady in silks and satns and sparkling
jewels answer this question as she iIneeis
In prayer on her cushioned fCOtstuol next
Sunday2 VIII the Corpulent policeman
swinging his club In threatening manner
before the face Of some half-famished
window settle this veNed mattcr2 WIN You
who blow the fragrant smoke of a costly
crear in the fac" of a dirty beggar as
You pass by tell him where to get work.
II is said that a hungry man is more
dangerous than a hungry lion. Is H. SUI
prisug then that the gauut specters of
crime and poverty stalk hand in hand"
Would you advise man to steal or
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