Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18
BY F. P. DUANE.

know how. Modesty w'd prev'nt me- # N
sayin' that I know how, but that's
nayether here nor there. do. Tn
way to abolish poverty an bust crime
is to put up broWn-stone huildin'
in iyry town in tn country with me
name over It. That's tn way.
suppose tn raison 1t wasn't thried be-
fure was that no man iver had such
a name IT'S tl1rue me efforts is not
appreciated tyrywhere- I offer city
a libr'y an" oftentimes it replies an
asks me f'r something to pay Off the
school debt I rayceive degraded pet
tysnuns firm so-called proud methropo-
Uses asllin FIR gas house in place w
a libry. I pass thin by with scorn.
All ask iv city in rayturn FIR a
fifty thousan' dollar libry is that 1t
Shall raise wan 1nillyon dollars to
maintain tn buildin' an keep me name
shiny, an II it won't do that much
FIR lithrachoor tn divrle take it it's
cnworthy w TIL name iy an Ameri-
can city What ivry community needs
is taxes an lithrachoor. I give thin
hoth Three cheers FIR a libry an
bonded debt! Lithrachoor, taxation.
an Andrew Carnaygie, wan an In
sipara HE, now an foviyer; They'se
nawthin' so good as a good book.
It's betther thin food; it's bettller thin
money. ! have made money an books,
an I like me books better thin me mon
ey. Others don't, but do. with
these few$ wurrds I will conclude
Alodesty wtld preyint NE firm sayin'
more, but have to catch ttrain
an cannot go on. I stake ye to this
libry which We will have as soon as we
raise tn money to keep it goin'. Stock
it with useful readin' an some day,
yere otherwise pauper an criminal
childher will come TO know me name
wilin I am gone an no man left to tell
it thin
.sWIlin tn flistoryan comes to write
thu history iy tn West, he'll say:
'Pianola. Ioway, was prosperous town
till tin failure Nv tn corn orop In ME-
teen hundred an wan an tn Car
maggie libry In nineteen hundred an
two TIL governint asst f'r3 thirty dol
S lars to pave Main sthreet with wooden
blocks; but tn gr-great philanthroplst
was firm an TIL llbry was sawed OF
on tn town. TIL public schools. tn
worknouss, tn ,Wather Wurruks an tn
other penal instlchoochions was at
wanst closed an tn people began to
wcrruk to support tn libry. In five
years tn population had deserted tn.
town to escape taxation an now az
Mr.. Carnaygie promised. poverty an
crime has been abolished in tn place,
tn janitor iv tn buildin' bein honest
an ell-paid.'
isn't it good FIR lithrachoor, says
heee Sure, I think not. Hinnissy- LIZ
b,ies niver encouraged !ithrachoor an
ny more thin tombstones encourage
livin'. No van liver wrote anything be-
cause he was told that hundheer
>ysars firm now his Books might be
taken down firm shelf In a granite
seDulcller an some wan Wud writes:
Good or This man is crazy In ri'
margin What lithrachoor needs Is
failir, food If Andrew wud put
itchen in tn libries an build sorse
hunks or aven swing few hammocks
where Twin authors cud crawl in at
night an sleep while wa illn, { this
enlightened nation to wake IN an dis
cover TIL Shakesperes now on tn turf,
3 he Mud be givin' a rale boost to 18th
rachcor. With TIL s:noka curtin firm
th..s chimbley an hundil derds iy potes
settin' arorn,a table loaded down with
pancakes an ta lkin' pothry an prize
figatin', with hun1hreds " other potes
ste ct.ed rps ma teiY In III sleepip' rooms
an snorin' in wan graE' chorus, with
their wives holdin down Sord-paytn
5 Jobs as libraryars nr cooks an their
happy title children playins through
Il tn marble corridors, Andrew Car.
maggie wud rot have lived in vain. 3
Me he that's th' on way he knows
4 how to I've dent believe in Iipriss.
1 Taey pat rsrixe lithracnonr, In f'i
hslpin' h, boys tina 8 now on tn job,
1 / know spote In Ha listed sthreet that
wanst wrote pnme beginnin AL
s tn wealth iy In1. that he sold to "a
i magazine t'r Two cellars, payable on
puhly I1thracheord don't need
adv. e!!t d w nut II needs IS adVttncts
f.r4 lIthracnopTs a. can rIlake:
down poslerItg rice
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