The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-01-16
SARGE PLUNKETT.
ALL PRAISE TO THE MOVERS IN THE
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
Hard Times Have Passed Away for tho Build
ing and Fitting up of Great EXPOSE
ton Creates Work for the Laborer.
For The Constitution.


Work is what is needed by the poor-not i
pity, not charity
Surely if Atlanta builds her exposition
she has solved the remedy for the hard |
times.' Soup houses nor relief committees |
do nothing substantial for the relief
of the poor. Like patent connections taken
for the liver. they leave the patient IN
worse fix than they found him when you
stop the dose. The Atlanta people have
struck the right key for the relief that Is
healthy. Create the work, build your eX-
position. thus relieving the pressure tnat
is upon us with fair prospect of getting
a good return for your investment
Without doubt work is scarcer than ever
before all over Georgia. and all over the
world. 1 reckon This will be one draw
back II work is started on the exposition
grounds that should be guarded against.
1t will no sooner be circulated that work
is plentiful in Atlanta than every fool that
can saw a line or drive nail will start
for the place. At once the world should
know that there are plenty of men in At
lanta to build this exposition. Let other
places follow the example of Atlanta and
create work for their own locality. Chica-
go is suffering from the great number
that Hocl1ed there to build the fair and who
were left without work when the fair
was over 1t is mighty nice to talk big
about the prosperity of ones city and about
the great amount Of Improvement going on,
but if it causes influx of surplus work.
men it. is bound to be ruinous in the long
run. The prosperous place is where there
are no idle men. and we should all make
| 1t our business to keep outsiders from flock
! ing to Atlanta that her good people may
! reap the reward they SO much deserve for
| inaugurating a way TO put men to work.
| Three cheers for Atlanta is what I say,
and God bless the rich folks OF the place
| who have thought of such q sensible way
to help the poor among them. There can
live no anarchy in such place. there can
be no clash where such a spirit reigns
| All ever the world there are plenty of
| good people TO be found Not village nor
| hamlet but what has its good people who
are more than glad to help the needy. At
| lanta surprises them all in the good sense
shown in getting about this help and do
hope she Will have many imitators. Create
work! Let the mechanic and the laborer
gather his little brood around the Preside
on Saturday nights and in their midst be
the greatest man in all the town, TO their
| minds while he himself can feel the con-
seriousness of having earned by honest toll
the things which brings them cheer and
makes him his children's hero. This is the
kind of charity that is healthy, it is the
stay of the household, the incentive of good
| citizenship.
I am cranky this dispensing of charity
AID the melting out of pity. Browns little
grandson CAME home the other day crying
like his heart would break. He had never
known that the patches on his clothes
meant anything but that he had one of
the dearest and neatest mothers. but some
plying friend, IN goodness of heart toe.
wanted to remedy the matter, and thus
the little fellows eyes were opened. A
great surgeon would never stuff his patients
mind with stories of his weak condition
before beginning his operation-the mind
has much to do with endurance.
Much of the dissatisfaction of the masses
is brought about by the over-attentior in
a wrong way of people in the better coI,dl-
tons of Iife-it is not the scornful bearing
of l,n yinI xr-hio b o,1tc I,c
a. plying sympathy that pats upon the
| head and says to his child:
"You poor little thing!'
"I1ow cold you must oe!" ,s-,.,,,a rho
old daddies work and wages; his children
will look up to him, his wife will be proud
! of him. the old man will be happy himself
and all the homes be cheerful and discip-
lined. This is the kind of charity needed
the sort Of pity that is healthy and it is just
! what the building of an exposition Wi.
! bring to Atlanta if too many fools do not
rush from other places to kill the effect
desired. Anyhow, l say three cheers and q
Cod blessing upon the men who press
ing the exposition movement. They can't
help 1t If there comes influx from other
places to spoil the intent of their good work
We folks in Georgia should feel that we
have been blessed this winter. The weather
has been kind to the poor, and now the
| people of wealth are displaying a kind spir-
| it in wishing to create work and restore
| confidence. Everything has raised its head
| with the year. The mechanics. espe-
| cially. are beginning to step proud over the
| prospects Men, who week ago moped
| around with their under lip dropped down
| on their shirt collar, have braced up smiling
| and serene. There is nothing more conta-
| gious than good spirits when such men as
| are at work this exposition become en-
| Unused to turn something no. StOnewaH
| Jackson performed wonders as general
| because his men trusted and partOok of
| his spirit. The mechanics of Atlanta have
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| moving this exposition. and half of the
| hard times have vanished from Atlanta.
| These mechanics say that the newspaper
| is q great factor in such movements and
| to them they look to press the point that
| there be not unhealthy influx into the
| city. The mechanics of Atlanta, they say,
| cannot afford to be selfish but they think
| it only charity to those at a distance to
understand that there are plenty
| here to do the work Let other
| towns and the whole country go to work,
! Atlanta has-create work, turn something
| up, and 9i will end up with good cheer and
| prosperity.
| And here, in the country, the people are
| partakns of the enthusiasm. The EXPOSE
| ton is all the talk. There is but one sad
| man in our county-that is Brown. lie
| snapped his Texas pony of this week-the
| one that SCARED him up Christmas from the
| alarm clock. He snapped with Gypsies
again, and has now what l call trick mule.
| They tell it on Brown that the mule he
now has is so trained that every time you
jog him in the side with your heels he sits
down behind--the Gypsies, they say. have
him trained that way After the swap was
over the Gypsy and Brown rode along
some distance together. Just after they left
Whites store, at Panthersv!le, Brown
iabbed his mule in the sides with his
heels, and down the mule sat, so sudden
that Brown had to hold to the mules ears
to keep from sliding Off AS it happened
the Gypsy switched his horse around i'll
the bushes and up flew a drove of cartridges.