The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-01

the many teams employ red, and the dis
lance Of the quarry @toa the road are the.
main items.
,rhereforc the ri Them nial road plan pro
poses to lay a rail track on tho road TO-
do all the hauling and during the con-
:struction and sto serse as car ira ck. af-a8
forwards: the cars. will / tscover9 the exc
5penses OF the const ion.
The guarding and maintenance of con-
svicts takes away al rs he profit of their,
labor and is a questionable profit aS
best. tbs not a. pleasant sight to nassers-
by or jewellers near the road to behold a
gang Of sullen, docking criminals,
with ball and chain, toiling on the public.
road, using profane and vile language. u
certainly degrades the Job they do to
such an extent that an honest laborer will.
5henceforth decline to work on the road,
terming it penitentiary job, thinking.
that if seen at it, he will be taken for
convict.
In consequence, road-making can only
be done hereafter by convicts. It also is
an Injustice to all honest laborers who
are out of work at present and earnestly
wish to be employed to be able to pay.
their way.
According to trade union papers, which
came to hand lately there are in the
United States and Canada every day out
of work 100000. mechanics. not counting
the 1aborers.
To engage them and put them to work
orls our public roads in every State a.
moderate wages would be doing good a..H
around, keep them out of harms way anu
produce something highly beneficial. Our
jails, prisons and warehouses will remain
empty if every able bodied man and youth
is at work:
Do not make the workingman's lot hard
er for him. by taking his work away from
him and give it to convicts. If he Is
s.,,.shed to the WILL with the cold console.
ton to help himself, he will turn and do
so, but since he has not much education
and less Judgment he will help himself to
the wrong thing and there is no telling
where he will stop.
He will drift into anarchism. OF which
strange blossom, we have had already sew
cral serious crops
The bloody deeds of the Molly Maguires
~ the coal regions of Pennsylvania, the
E4aymarket riot in Chicago and the assas-
sination OF President Mckinley showed
us vivid sparks from a hidden Ere, dan
serously near, by which the authorities
were taken aba ok.
It is no use to blame foreign countries
for anarchisnl for as we'll as thepotato
bug, o. true American. not exactly vel
,one there gets along. in England and the
sparrow, a thoroughbred EnSlishno
lives quite comfortably here, it grows her
IS we'll as there: but there they have IL
vestieated it to the bottom and tried &c
remove its causes. 1t is q secret society
in existence ever since the .sbeSnlllns Of
.he French Revolution. at the end of tn
eighteenth century: and that it is COM
nnsed Of though material IS shown by tho
behavior of Lie few culprits caught.
One of the Haymarlzet. Spiess, (only
twenty-five years old had a cigar SNUG
rlcd to him in prison, which the Jallor
allowed him to smoke. When he had
smoked it about one-third, it exploded
md blew half of his head Off What a
rool hand! To commit such a frightful
suicide, simply TO cheat the galows of
their prey!
Czolgosz also was a. man of strong nerve
FOR, to penetrate dense crowd elbow
,s his way through with hand wrapped
~, holding a cooked pistol, was no easy
performance. To root out Anarichism
cannot be done by banishinS foreigners
1r shutting them out, but by removing
The cause it feeds OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
originates in idleness. IF all the idle
people are employed they will have ncith-
NJ time nor desire to plan or perpetrate
mischief
Besides. do not forget that our coun-
try chiefly owes its existence, welfare and
working. men who transformed wilder
ness into fouris1insIsities and blooming
farms in spite of swarms Of hostile
savages. ~
Would you set them aside and replace
them by criminals? God forbid! Their
work is not vet finished. There are thou
sands of miles Of public roads to be
macadamised all over the Union and
hundreds of bridges to be built yet in
every State Set all the idle ones to
work there and they will erect a monu-
n,ent to the nation far superior to Pyra-
mds Panthcnon, Korapois Chinese
Wall, etc, etc. Open an employment Of
flee in every large city and engage these
working men for our public high ways,
Laborers at s1.25: mechanics at $1.5o,
bosses for-s225 boys for 70 cents a day.
board them in movable camp at SO
cents a day and am certain that all
would rather accept the offer than remain
idle.
A WOkKINGMAN.
Poano1,e Va March 1902