Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-11-15
To Fight Tramps.


this way: Fortune awaits the lucky
man who will inform railroad super
intendents how to part with the ever
present tramps. Many OF the big lines
spend thousands fighting them
Country jails are Ravens Of rest, and
tin badge is always hailed with joy"
The tramp is product OF the pres
ent industrial anarchy. That he is
here is ample proof OF it. One gen
Grafton ago he was unknown. He APP
peared on the stage in increasing evil
dence just as the concentration Of
wealth, the formation Of private trusts
and monopolies, and the increase of
privately owned machinery. Just. as
the sun is the source of life, just SO the
industrial system creates tramps and
vagabonds. The tramp is here to stay
out the Industrial system, and he W Il
multiply as it is prolonged.
] can tell the railroad superintend-
ents how to get rid OF him, but they
will not pay the reward. Offer to each
employment at say S3 day, and The
highway will know them no longer.
Provided with the means of employ
ment men can create more than W. a
day SO there need be no loss. Down
in New Zealand there were tramps
galore-even the soldiers were called
out to protect the property of the
country against the pest. Every effort
to compel men to cease getting hungry
and making and effort to relieve the
demands of nature proved futile. Rev,
olution was threatened. Then the
government changed its tactics and
offered to employ every man al $l.75
a day at common labor who could find
no employment at better wages. The
tramp disappeared, and government
reports show that he is not factor in
the nation IN the South Seas. IL is
certainly untrue that railroad super
intendents spend large sums in try.
ing to get rid of the tramp. They do
not give the money to the tramps,
that is clear, and il they give it to the
officers to arrest them they are guilty
OF bribery and treason. If they charge
large sums Of money to that expense
they simply steal it. There is no le-
climate channel in which il can be
expended. Tramps are men, like you
and |, and get hungry and cold, have
love and a hate, and so long as they
are not employed at something like
lair compensation they will be roam
ing the country. / have one en-
ployed-and | would not want bet
ter workman. There is not one tramp
in a hundred who would not work if
given employment at good wages
and why should any one be employed
~ iSS9t hio htS thS hoilu not enough
work to be done to employ all the peo-
pie? The railroads take from the pub.
lie w. l50 a year for each full years
time OF each employe-that has some
thing to do with making tramps, for
the public is robbed by the extortion,
wealth is congested, opportunity de-
MED and injustice done. The super
lntendents who making this grand |
stand play to the yerdant newspaper
reporters, draw several thousand a
year salary, and they expect men like
themselves, with just as strong love
for the benefits of life, to live and
move and have being on few cents
a year begged from a charitable pub
he. The railroad superintendents ale
of the law dozen times to
where the tramp violates ii once. Ey-
cry court, every city council, every
legislature, every public official knows
.he color Of their bribe money or
passes for favors against the public
interest. And the tramp problem has
ome relation to these things.-Age OF
Reason.