Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08

handing over the goods to the owner to
when they belong There you will find
those who are called the ssl1inners, -
the men who hover around Wall street
and State street and Third street, with
great sleight Of hand in bonds and
stocks. There you find the funeral
thieves, the people who go and sit down
and mourn with families and pick their
| pockets, and there you find the conf
/ dence men, who borrow money Of you
because they have dead child in the
house and want to bury it, when they
never had a house or family, or they
want to go to England and get a large
property there, and they want you to
pay their way, and they will send the
money back by the very next mail. There
are the harbor thieves, the shoplifters,
the picksockets, famous all over the
! cities. Hundreds of them with their
faces in the rogues' gallery, yet doing
nothing for the last five or ten years but
defraud society and escape justice. When
| these people go unarrested and unpun-
ished, it is putting high premium up
on vice and saying to the young Grim
inals Of this country, "What a safe
thing it is to be great criminal Let
the law swoop upon them. Let it be
known in this country that crime will
| have no quarter; that the detectives are
after it; that the police club is being
brandished that the iron door of the
prison is being opened; that the judge
is ready to call the case. Too great le-
niency to criminals is too great severity
to society.
The Idle Glass.
Among the uprooting and devouring
classes in our midst are the idle Of
course I do not refer to the people who
are getting old or TO the sick or to those
who cannot get work, but tell you to
look out for those athletic men and wo-
men who will not work When the
French noble1nan was asked why he
kept busy when he had so large prop
erty, he said, IT keep on engraving so I
may not hang myself - do not care
who the man is, he cannot afford to be
idle. 1t is from the idle classes that the
criminal classes are made up. Charac-
ter, like water, gets putrid if it stands
still too long. Who can wonder that in
this world, where there is so much to
do, and all the hosts of earth and heav-
en- and hell are plunging into the con-
hict, and angels are flying, and God is
at work. and the universe is a quake
with the marching and countermarch-
ing, that God lets his Indignation fall
upon a man who chooses idleness? [
have watched these do nothings who
spend their time stroking their beard,
and retouching their toilet, and criti-
cising industrious people, and pass their
6axyc on6 irLo+ in oil H.
houses, lounging and smoking and
chewing and card playing. They are
not only useless, but they are danger
Gus. How hard it is for them to while
away the hoursl
Alas, for themi IF they do not know
how to while away an hour, what will
they do when they have all eternity on
their hands? These men for awhile
smoke the best cigars and wear the best
broadcloth and move in the highest
spheres, but l have noticed that very
soon they come down to the prison, the
almshouse or stop at the gallows.
The police stations of two of our cities
furnish annually 20O,O lodgings For
the most part these 900, 600 lodgings
are furnished to ablebodied men and
women, people as able to work as you
and l are When they are received no
longer at one police station because
they are 'trepeaters, - they go to some
other station, and SO they keep moving
around. They get their food at house
doors, stealing what they can lay\their
hands on i'll the front basement while
the servant is spreading the bread in the
back basement. They will not work
Time aud again in the country districts
they have wanted hundreds and thou
sands of laborers. These men will not
60. They do not want to work. | have
tried them. l have set them to saving
wood in my cellar to see whether they
wanted to work I offered to pay them
we'll for it. l have heard the saw going
for about three minutes, and then I
went down, and, 10, the wood, but no
saw! They are the pest of society, and
they stand in the way of the Lords
poor, who ought to be helped and will
be helped. While there are thousands
of industrious men who cannot get any
work, these men who do not want any
work come in and make that plea Sleep
ing at night at public expense in the
station house. During the day getting
their food at your doorstep. Imprison-
ment does not scare them. They would
like it. Blackwell S island or Moyamen-
sing prison would be a comfortable
home for them. They would have no OBJ
lection to the alnlshouse, for they like
thin soup if they cannot get mock tur-
tie.
like for that class of people the scant
bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the |
Thessalonian loafers, IF any work not
neither should he eat. /" By what law of
God or man is it right that you and I
should toll day in and day out until
our hands are blistered and our arms |