The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30
Lsads,
Local Affairs.
Scientific Farming.
EVERY TOWN OUGHT TO OWN A FARM

EVERY TOWN OUGHT TO OWN FARM
 G. ". B. calls attention to the fact thal
 we have million and half of tramps
 and says that "scientific machines srt
 making hundreds more daily"
 Now if there is any relation between
 the use of machinery and tramps, I sus.
 pect it is very different from that i'm. piled. Experts on the subject tell us | that tramps are men who do not mean to work. If .they ask for work it is just to blind the innocent. As a rule they never did work, will not, and do not know how to work. They were not displaced by machines, they prefer to travel and take their pick of such living as they can ex- | tort from the general public by brsZen impudence or mock humility. Like the political pauper and the penthouse bum mer, the tramp intends to live by the sweat of others brows. They belong to the great noE-producing class of consum- CTS which makes business good for other people. l respect the tramp more than do some of the other parasites which prey on the body polite, because they do at least go through the formaliEy of ask ing for their food and raiment instead of joining hands in ring to steal and rob.
 Still they must all be fed, and they help to make market for the farmer, because somebody must pay for what they eat and drink and wear.
 The time is not far off think when the country will be forced in self defense to take better care of these poor dependent hangerson. They must have homes and chance to earn an honest living by the sweat of their own brows. Now as the farmer is most bene fitted by these tramps, the farmers ought to hasten to their re- lief. Let each farmer adopt one poor, despised fellow and bring him up to work. That solves the problem at once. The farmer must have cheap labor; the tramp must live; put a million and half tramps on to a million and a half farms and you will kill more than two evil-omened birds with one stone and we shall all breathe easier. The problem of the poor in the great cities is being solved in similar way. They are placed in colonies on the waste lands, and are per mitted to cultivate vacant house lots or are forced by their extreme poverty to go out into the country and inhabit de serted farms; and so the real redemption of the world depends upon the farm and the farmer. We can't all live by selling something. The insane craving to live in city has spent it's force and hereafter men will be driven back to Eden and find delight in growing potatoes and chickens, and apples.
 Every town ought to own a farm and make gcod home for it's paupers of all kinds. It is the most economical and the most respectable way of supporting those who must live at the public expense, whether they give an equivalent or not for their services. Let them work their way on the farm. And those who will not work, but prefer to steal, legally Or otherwise, put them in chain-gang and urge them to pound up stone for the per manent improvement of the public high ways. Men who live by evsding, defy ing and violating the law might in this way be made real ornaments in society Is it not most benevolent scheme-TO. O. Wright.