The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-07-11
Wheat and HObOeS.

The proposal of Alderman Good
man that the hoboes, gazaboos, pan
handlers and unclassifed miscella-
neous tramps in these parts shall be
sent to Kansas, which is crying for
| laborers to tackle her enormous har-
vest, was well meant, but will not be
well received by the persons for
whose benefit it was made. In fact,
it is an attack upon the ambulatory
and non-producing Glasses These
gentlemen would have no great OBJ
lection, perhaps, to going west in
buffet cars. They appreciate the
charms of travel and as citizens of
the world they may be able to forgive
the country districts. Though they
wander far atield at times, they are
essentially urban, They find New
York an excellent summer resort and
they have no wish to leave it, at least,
to go to any great distance from it.
They have their favorite haunts and
benches. The town is their club and
place OF pleasure. Here and here
abouts they can rest. Area doors are
many. There are many unconsidered
tritles to be snatched up. Great is
the number of kindly hands that can
not resist an appeal for ten cents for
a nights lodging Food is only too
easy. Drink may be had by the
knowing at prices that defy competi-
ton. "Snipes" cannot elude the
quick eye and hand of the tramp who
knows his business. He bothers him
self little about clothes. Give him
fair weather and lazy or indulgent
policeman, and his cup runs over.
To believe that this shuffiing philo-
sopher will give up New York, his
oyster, and go even with free trans
portation provided by benevolent
municipality to state notorious for
its austere aversion to the genial
wandering life, is to do him an injus-
tice. The question is of more than
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base of hobo logic. Work is poison
to the true tramp. 1t not only affects
him with physical distaste, but it
is a shock to his principles, a viola
ton of his rules of life. There are
people enough in the world who like
to work, unnatural as it may seem.
Let them use their gifts and enjoy
their opportunity; but he whose
genius is for rest and calm will not
expose himself to the insult of being
asked to work. He, too, has his con-
science and it does not permit him to
toll. He has been exposed to many
yicissitudes of temperature. His
health is more delicate than is COM
monty supposed. Obliged to be his
own physician, that physician tells
him that little over-exertion might
be fatal to him, and that he must
take the best care of himself. Agri-
cultural labor is plainly unsuited to
his constitution. A very little work
in a brewery is the utmost that he
should venture to undertake.
And what would Kansas do with
the imported tramps? Work they
will not; to beg they are not ashamed.
With rifles and threats of the rock
pile you might make them go
through some clumsy mechanical
stimulation of labor, but they would
run away the moment the severity of
the sentinels was relaxed; and they
would spoil a great deal more wheat
than they would save. Take these
gentlemen of the road from this town
to the land of the Jayhawkers and
other enterprises than harvesting
would get their instant attention.
They venerate the name of the Hon.
Carrie Nation. They would like moth
ing better than to smash a few sa-
looms and breach few barrels. For
the sake of the peace of the Common
wealth of Kansas, it is best that the
New York sons of leisure should keep
away. For their own sake it is best
also. They have met and mastered
many an awful form of liquid fire,
but the litter of the blind pig might
be too much for them.
Finally, Mr.. Goodman should re-
member that these merry men will be
needed here next fall. Tammany
cannon afford to lose them. They are
sound conservatives and hostile to
reform.-N. Y. Sun.
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