Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-06
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ADAY.
Poor Men Willing to Labor Hard for
That Pitiful Sum.

Il wish you would say in the Beacon
that II Is not true that any one can get
work in Wichita If he wishes" SAID
Chief Cone this morning in answer TO
the usual query, WHATS new"
There IS 40 work here fer poor peo-
pie ana il IS not true that those who are
begging are unwilling to work. If |
was one OF The men 1 would beg enough
money 10 hay Il cartridge, go aad Dor
rUW gun TO put it in, and blow the
brains ont Of the fellow that makes
such statements.
Il tell you we have 800 poor men in
Wichita today. who would be glad to
get Tie hardest Kind CT work at 80 cent 5
"A day. Ii we had any work 10 give
them l couid lind that many at once
wuO would go 10 work Oh the streets
for that sum >
~ IS, spoke up another official, land
L know OF twenty or thirty men who
would jump at the chance CT doing it
for 25 cents day"
y eoteTday," continued the chief. Il
saw a man vino had Just spent his last
nickel for bucket OF coal 10 keep his
family from freezing and he told me
that his wife had baked the last bit Of
meal they had and he did not know
where any more was to come from. He
had no work, but said he would willing
~ do anything at % cents day.
The man went to the commissioners
and told them that he did not want
charity, he wanted work. That he
could live Oh % cents day and would
Work for that price, but that if he could
not obtain work at that pitifuI sum he
must have help and if help was not
given he must go out and steal to keep
his family alive"
1t is doubtful If in the history of this
country there ever was so much suffer.
ing as there will be this winter. Pen
pictures fail in attempts to describe.
On the other hand we take the fol-
lowing from the New York Advertiser:
Mr.. William X. Vanderbilt sailed
away for Europe on Thursday on board
the steam yacht, Valiant, and he will
not return to this country until Sep
TENDER Of next year. In the meantime
the yacht will cruise along the coast of
Egypt, proceed through the SueZ canal.
!. t0nch at Bombay and Calcutta and 9th
er Indian ports, and afterwards steam
further on to the lands of the Chinese
laundrymen and the japanese chrysan-
derbilt party will leave the steam Yacht
for a time and undertake trip up the
Nile. and similar inland excursions will
be enjoyed whenever the promised at.
fractions are abundant enough TO war
rant the excursions. The yacht was
built in England to Mr. Wonderfully
order and cost $500 600
1t is certainly tremendously signifi-
cant that the world has reached a
period in its history when any single
human being can lock the doors on
So 600 600 worth of palaces and sail
away in a f-miliOn-dollar steam
yacht with rs little thaught of the ex-
penSe involved as the ordinary clubman
sails away in a catbCat for a summer
afternoons trip; and. further than this.
arranges matters SO that his expendit-
llreS Tor a series of months will be at
the rate Of nearly halt million dollars
per year. This nineteenth century de.
velopment certainly transcends in point
OF financial proportions anything that
has ever been known concerning the
fahied muDiiicence OF eastern noten-
taieS IN ancient times or the lavishness
OF Roman eTnDcT1iS.
The article goes Gu to state that this
Vanderbilt cleared S1,GO0. 600 last year
in one transaction and that this trip
win cost S300. 600 beside incidental ex
penses. THIS is but one instance.
What startling parallels Tne asser-
ton of Ingalls, is proving a startling
trnth, that society is becoming hope
Iess!y stgatified. and The climax is fast
being reached.