Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-07

This town is full Of men and wo.
men who don't know where they are
going to get their bread and butter,
and so far as cake and pie, and birds
and bottles, they never dream of such
things. Every day in the week, peo-
pie well born and we'll bred. with
really excellent education, fitted to
fill responsible positions with compe-
tent skill, come asking the way to the
Jerico Of support,
A telegraph dispatch in the New
York World Of September 16, 1889,
reads as follows:
Pittsburg, September 16.-A vast
army Of tramps, the lines of which ex-
tend from Wallis Station to Altoona,
is now quartered along the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. A portion of thus vast
army is moving towards Pittsburg,
other members Of the fraternity are
going eastward, while many have es-
tabished permanent camps and only
move while foraging the surrounding
country for grub" or other articles
that can be conveniently carried A
move 10 on foot to organize a vigilant
committee in each of the counties
lying between here and Altoona for
the purpose Of regulating the nul-
sance. George Stevenson, an old
time brakeman on the Pennsylvania
railroad, in speaking on the subject
to World reporter, SAID: There is
law to punish these offenders, and
II is about time il was enforced. |
am not drawing on my imagination
when l say there are at this moment
1000 tramps on this road between
here and Galltzin"
Ga January II, 1891, John j, In
gals said in speech in the United
States senate;
"A financial system under which
more than one-half of the enormous
wealth Of the country, derived from
the bounty of nature and the labor of
all, is owned by a little more than
thirty thousand people, while one mil
lion American citizens able and will
ling TO toll, are homeless tramps,
starving for bread, requires adjust
ment. A social system which offers
to tender and virtuous women the al
tentative between prostitution and
suicide as an escape from beggary, is
organized crime, for which, some day
unrelenting justice will demand atone
ment and explanation. Mr. Presi-
dent, the man who loyes his country
and the man who studies history,
will search in vain for any natural
cause for this appalling condition.
We are accustomed to speak of this
as the land of the free ind the home
Of the braye.' II will soon be the
home OF the rich and the land of the
slavsn
On June so, 1891, Senator Ingalls,
said:
There are ten millions of people in
this country who never get enough to
cat from one years end to another"
On January 10, 1891, the Topeka
Capital said;
The delay in passing some Gnan-
cal legislation SO imminently de-
manded by the pressure Of hard times
is very fatiguiug to the country. If
there is not something done very sooD
the American people will say with
Artemus Ward in war times; Gentle
men of the senate and house, you've sot
there and drawed your pay and made
summer complaint speeches long
enough, Congress, you won't do. Go
home; you miserable devils--go
home."
On November n, 1890, Marsh Muir
docks paper, the Wichita Eagle, in
accounting for the populist victory,
said:
1--WE said there was rebellion and
that it would show itself ia November
1890. We said the mortgage con-
sumed the farmers of Kansas who
work as a class from sun up till sun
down, year in aud year out, live scant-
lily, go poorly cladi and get are sink
ing deeper IN debt"
We wish to call the readers atten-
ton to the fact that when these latter
statements were being made, Benz
Harrison was president and the ma
tionsl house and senate were both re-