The herald., 1894-12-19
A NEW IDEA.


OF the liberty you were kind enough to
offer for communications upon cne of
the great questions that today is weigh
ing nation down, | will address myself
in as brief manner as l can to make
myself understood. This question needs
to be agitated and talked over at the
freside as we'll as in the hall, and it
needs to be handled with as good sense
as either the tariff or ailver question:. l
believe that good solution to this ques-
tion would be for the community to
start tramp farm there are thousands
OF acres of good lands in this county
that could be had at reasonable price
that could be made by these unfortunate
people to bloom like garden. In the
first place let the community purchase
100 acres and let the deed be made out
with charter for a stipulated purpose
10 that 1t would be owned by the COM
munity, 80 that there would be no fine
property built up for some private
parties or company, and that the labor
Df the unfortunate should not GO to
build up the avsricious. Touch nc place
that does not give an abundance Of
water either by ditch or well the i'm.
provements could al be done by the
inmates. Let the home have a governor
with board of com missioners appoint
cd by the governor of the state, a ma jor-
ity OF the board to be ladies, the gov
ernor OF the state to be president OF
the home. Let the governor of the
home be man OF family, to be paid
q competent wage such as ne could earn
at any honest labor, the president and
board to draw no pay except travelling
and incidental expenses. all other places
to be filled by the inmates Of the home.
Let the laws and rules governing the
home appeal to the honor rather than
the fear Of the inmates, the extreme un.
ruly to be sent out to their own care.
Let the inmates be paid small wage
per day of eight hours. say 80 cents or
less let there be a home supply store to
furnish suitable clothing 10 work in.
sold to the nmates at cost. Give him
comfortable quarters with bed and bed
clothing; give him the cheapest parts Of
beef, such as boiling pieces; :. give them
no coffee or tea, but oil the cows that
would be necessary to supply the home
with oil the milk they would u1e, Let
hem raise their own poultry and pigs,
vegetables and hay; give them horses
enough to cultivate their land with, and
when there is help wanted outside Dv
public or private parties the governor
could supply all the help they wanted
upon application, such help to be paid
the regular labor wage for like work.
do not believe it right to have these un-
fortunate people do public work OF any
kind at fess than the regular labor wage
for like work, at the expense OF the un-
fortunate who have to do it at a low
ata hat 60
man fewidsys' work and then let him
have to drift around for month or more
before he can get another job, having
NO home to 70 to? He has to pay four
or five times as much for his living as
the actual cost and he soon swallows up
his little earnings. But il he had
home he could return to it, and make
himself uBeiul until called ont again,
and in that way he could save his little
earnings and the incentive to save would
grow with him, and he would be self
supporting aud an honor to a commu-
nifty.
The home could be started with few
men. some to plow and plant, others to
erect buildings. In this way there
would be no labor lost or money thrown
away, and in short tune the home
would be sef-supporting. By the sale
OF surplus products give the home re-
spectacle name, that no man would be
ashamed to own it as his second start
ing point. Let the people agitste this
question. although it would be bstter to
start it fret and talk it up afterwards,
TOR We all know that starving men can.
not wait long for help. This work would
be the gathered wisdom OF thousr7 I'D
years. land to all helpers it would make
liuh
dreams." The people are accountable
for the making of maRy a tramp by the
licensing of the sale of alcoholic drinks,
and should do something in O sensible
way to rescue these unfortunate people
from the miserable condition that today
confronts them. This would be q work
OF great utility, and the people would be
surprised now many good, faithful men
they would help to rise up as helpers
OF good instead OF destroyers. Jefferson
said: Never put off until tomorrow what
we should do today. Now if any
man doubts that this community cannot
do this work and never miss meal and
not be made happier. then l will say
that | am much deceived in humanity.
Confucius, the great philosopher, said
that when times we're hard that it was
disgrace to be very rich, and that when
times were good That 1t wes shame to
be very poor. He also said ii rat regu-
late yourself, then your neighbor, thsn
your county, then your district and 30
on. Now If we look upon man as but
material being, it would yet be right
and just to help him. as it wonld bring
the more happiness to the world. But
If we look upon man as more than
material being. and the Christian world
claims that he is more. then it is the
duty OF Christian nation to help the
unfortunate in such way that they can
help themselves to no longer be the sor-
row OF Christian land. This doctrine
is preached every Sabbath day from
every pulpit throughout the Christian
world. "the great deep crying unto the
deep for Justice" l am quite certain
that with the help of the ladisa this
good work could be done and their work
would be as the carrying OF bread to the
unfortunate. 1t might not be so poet-
Cal as carrying bouquets to the men in
the chainganga or that are languishing
IN prison cells, but there would be
deal more sentiment in it.