The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1899-02-11

humanity. Our curiosity tcHil'tS
US to ask if there is any lower type
to present themselves for the hon.
or of being the tail end OF such q
progression; but we leave that to
the imagination Of our readers.
Our business is with causes.
The lower forms of civilization,
having less brains and less needs,
work for smaller wages than those
whose methods of thought or train
ing, or modes of living demand a
greater compensation. 1t follows
then that the higher form will re-
fuse work offered at less rate
than that to which he has been ac-
customed-a rate which seems too
low to satisfy the demands of liy-
ing. Measured by thefexperience
of past years-what i; there fer
him to do? Put Yourself in his
place Conceive yourself as work.
ing at ordinary laboring work, meet
with the wages thereof the ordins-
ry demands of living, food, shelter,
raiment, and then find that new
conner, foreign to you in every
thing, birth, language, customs,
civilities, offers to do work at re-
duced rate, what would you do?
Labor on by one side OF these
wreches at their wages; come in
contact with them; learning OF
them only their vices. What
would youdo? Look out for 9TH
ser avenues OF labor. Alas your
hands are not skilled. The ways
wardness or misfortune of youth
have left you stranded, almost a
useless wreck, and you must work.
on in the old way or starve. No
family TO hold you to duty; no
prospects ahead to allure, only a
dull round of uhrequitted labor.
what would you do? You will
work with inferior men, at inferior
wages; you cannot find work in
any other channel, and SO aban-
doning home and all its associa-
tons you start along the roads
looking for little labor, possibly
finding it at times, and if the al
tentative presents itself to beg or
starve, you will not starve.. So
then, working little, begging
much, never starving. drifting from
place to place, alternating between
the winter poor house and the
summer roadside; the spirit Of the
man constantly weakening, home
less, houseless, the tramp stands
before you, a notable character e.
volved blythe conditions of life ane
living produced by the competi
ton between American I'D spaupe'
labor. "
Examine the nationalities o
these men you will find that the,
are mainly of American birth, q
men of the English class; they at
: from the higher types; they arr
never from the lower class OF til
European labor. We know, t,
, well, that some OF these men ar
! drunkards Of the vilest type, wha
have neither aim nor hope in liz
r but the qualification Of depravet
appetite. Such men, howevef
; would exist under any circun3
stance, they come as much fro
the ranks of skilled labor as fro&6
the ranks of the unskilled. IT.
great majority Of them you Il !
find, if you take the trouble to &
anime, are from our own people 3
, fering evidence, clear and indi1 y
table, that when we open our DIR
to these outcasts to come in <
make outcasts Of our own. =
/, take the crumbs that falls froq 11
children's table and feed it ~
/ dogs
If, in the future. from he W
' taken notions or ignorance -
relations between capitaIhn 70
there should be an ann
: between thcs when
: tramp stand With yo,37
q painst yous VI flaf! ~ "