Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-03-27
ONLY HOBO.

l6tu out anu SndUeUs W aSHtnELOi
 street, with its i've miles of length
 will some day in the not distan
 future be as beautiful as | ennsyl
 sanIa avenue in the nations capitol
 Although it was January, Februarl
 and March, the average weathei
 was delicious, balmy May and Jun,
 weather in the east. As winter
 climate, that of Phenix is absolutely
 incompayable; and many persons o
 delicate health find much benefit
 by going there. 1t has a popula
 tion of social. Tustling, kindly pso
 ple-more pretty women and fine
 handsome horses, for its size, than
 any town | ever saw Be ,ides its
 balmy climate of eternal summer
 it's broad, level and pretty streets
 its handsome blocks of buildings
 it's ruttling, clever business men, 1t:
 lovely women aud grani horses,
 another most satisfactory feature
 about life in Phenlx is, that one car
 live, and live vel! there. moe cheap
 ly than in most any other city in the country. \ fair meal can bC
 had for tiftean cents, first rate one for twenty five cents, and one un, surpassed for fifty cents. Good rooms, depending on locality, eau be had Tor from twenty-five cents to one dollar per day. This for town and a people. who, but a few yaars ago, wore considered on the out. skirts of civilization. speak we'll.
 These are some of the pleasant features of fife in Phen;x ;he destined capital of an empire. We should not omit to state that its society is excellent, being unstrained refined aud cultivated. But we saw while there some things that were unpleasant. One morning after a heavy rain, when the streets were quite muddy, we were strOlling up Washington street, and we had reached a point directly opposite the city hall-under the very shadow of the temple Cf legislaiion-we saw some fifteen or twenty men, most of them boys and young men, with great iron shackles riVeted to their limbs, to which were securely at tached massive, clankiug chains and iron balls, that would weigh per haps twenty or twenty-five pounds. There was a nice looking gentle man, whom some one in the crowd, which had gathered to view this strange sight. called tho driver v We asked him if these men were murderers, or ie.Ons. He politely answered ''no-they were hob0s. ' He was then asked what they had done, but before his reply. one of the hobos--a mere bOy-said, "dOth- ing, except we were out uf money and were found sleeping in a hay stackw We had supposed that men in this republic, under the federal constitution aud the bill of rights of the teTntory, were born with freedom on their limbs. and that no one had the right Co shackle them with iron cutfs and balls and chains, till taey had committed some crime, forieiting life aud liberty, or, at least, till there were we'll grounded charges of such felonies preferred. If these young mea, who 1t seems had been thrown into the city jail for sleeping in a hay stack, had preferred working in the streets to lying in gloomy cells. we'll and good, but what right had the municipality, in this boasted free land, to shackle their limbs with clanking ball aud chain and then by 'dnyerT with bis gun to force them to the lowest depths of degredation by competing them, in such plight, to do menial labor be fore the multitude upon the public streets7 God save the republic, fl the time has come, or snail ever come, when the poor mea of the country the to ling mas'e shall have no rights, which the courts, the general government, the much boasted local self governments, or the municipal authorities and their officers, shall respect! But they were hobos. What is a hoboi It is a term of the lowest approbrium; and all men nowadays-who are found in the cities, on the railroads, or other highways, without work, are denominated hobos. Those who assume to exercise this tyranical power over them, attempt to justify their conduct by saying: These vagabonds are worthless, dishonest and to whom the desire for work is the last thing to come" or course we kuow that there are greater or less numbers of persons in the cities and tramping on the highways, who are worthless and would rather beg than work, but as tc the great of poor men in the republic today, who are out of employment, this appellation is a great slander and hbel-and is only one of the excused, with which tyrants are SO fruitful in justifying the barbarous cruelty of their measures. Is it not true, most of them are honest and and want work.
 In the last days of January we were standing one morning on the corner of the "Cotton" block, talk ing to Judge Kinkaid and another gentleman. Suddenly a pale faced delicate boy, about sixteen years of age, came to us and said: "Is this J udge Wright3' He was answered in the affirmative. He then offered us a twenty-five cent piece. We asked him what he meant, he said: Judge you kindly let me have fifteen cents last night at Heymau's corner to get something to eat with. I got a thirty cent job this morning and here is a quarter to pay you back" And yet this poor but honest boy was a hobo; and if the officers whose patriotic duties in this behalf require aud receive great diligence had heard of that thirty cents and a pale faced, sad eyed boy. What voiceless story! The thirty cents told of the poverty of the hobo-of labor in vain seeking requital; but the pale, hun
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