Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-02-10
For n Poor Farm.

ZELIENOPLE, FEB I ls9S.
EDITOR CITIZEN have been read
ing the letters in your paper or the top
ic of a Poor Farm and the majority
Seem to be in favor Of the Poor Farm.
/ am also in favor of tiff it is run
right. notice a great many Of the
farmers seem to think that the people
of Butler want a Poor Farm thinking
they will get position. at a good sala-
ry, and no person but them have any
say in running it. / understand the
County Commissioners have the run
ming Of the farm, and if it is not run
right the people, all over the county,
viii have a say every three years, by
voting for and sending good men TO
Butler as Commissioners, who viii see
that it is managed right. If one set Of
men do not do it satisfactorily do not
send them back a second time. but send
some other ones that will have 1T done
right 1t rests with the people all over
the county who shall be the managers,
by sending the right men 10 Butler, and
don't think that the people of Butler
alone shall have all the say in regard to
it. We have a Board Of Commissioners
now that is composed of two farmers
and one Butler man, and ] think the
farmers will have two out of the three
votes in running the institution at the
start.
A writer from Brady twp. writes,
what is more sad than to see a gray
haired man or woman treading their
way TO the Poor House it is much
better think, when the gray haired
men and women are so poor that their
kind friends and neighbors will not take
care Of them to have home to 20 to,
where they know they will have some
one TO take care Of them and have what
they can eat and wear, than 10 be sold
out to some one who will make them
work while they alc able, and get paid
for it besides; then when they are not
able TO work they do not want them
any longer.
have always noticed that the people
that would keep the poor for the two
dollars week, were people that had
not much help at home, and if the poor
were not able to work they did not
want them.
He spoke Of our large farms and large
comfortable houses, with pleasant sur
rOundings for the poor, those people are
not the ones that keep the poor; they
that have large farms and comfortable
surroundings do not want an encum
Dfdncc sftI1lig dIJuu1 Urrr way, IA
the shape Of some old or crippled per
son that has hard luck in life and did
not lay mp enough 10 keep them the
rest Of their days on earth. The phrase
over the Hill 10 the Poor House, may
sound sad when it is read about, but If
You saw where some unfortunate poor
were moved from one place 20 another,
when one person got tired of them, then
move them along, | think it does not
look 80 bad then 10 see them wend their
way over the hills TO the Poor House,
" here they know there is home for
the rest Of their days on this earth.
Know Of one person, n woman, that no
person would have about the house after
her husband died, even for what work
she could do, and she was stout and
hearty, but when the Poor Board took
her TO keep. she could get place with
people that had no women help. She
did the houscwOrk on the large and
comfortable farms, and the farmer got
81 per week Tor her board. She was
moved from one place TO another and al
present she il away in another town
shid, bat the township she happened tc
be living in when her husband died II
paying her keeping, and she is away fan
away, from her kind friends and neigh
nOrs. and if she was dead now she
would be- buried in the Potters field
Just the same
This is just one Of the many that
could be found throughout the county
if they were hunted up. 50 J hope the
voters Of Butler county will come out
and vote for what is just and right
vote for Poor Farm
SCOTT THOMPSON