The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-07-09
Mr.. Wilson'S Letter.
EDITOR INTELLIGENoER:


eagle, the emblem of rapaclty. He
did not know how well be hit it. Most
Western readers know how to make
a "turkey pen" into which wild tur-
keys will go through a ditch that leads
into it at the bottom but once In they
eve look down to ind the place tho
which they came il and by which they
c uld 60 out. The INTELLIGENCER
discusses the tramps, to whom we pass
out ten millions a year in cold grub.
And as fast as the worn out tramp
passes out for good another passes IN.
DIR. G, A. Elwood, professor of sociol-
Ogy in the Missouri University, has a
treatment for them. So have thous-
ands of other soeiologists and reformers
| am within pistol shot of a great In
teruational Reform Bureau; which &C.
complishes the Important object OF
paying IT'S officers salaries. took up
its pamphlet and found Cleveland and
leading eastern %millionares who have
grown rich by mufiing the eighth COM
maudment-among its shining lights. A
patch on trousers is still called "Cleve-
land badge. Every Monday, metro.
poli'an papers IN the East have SER
mons from the Rev. Somebodyorother
telling how to IRE the tramp evil,
wipe out the saloon, force men and
wives who hate each other to live to-
gether and make Everything lovely"
every where. These plans are about
as good as the eight year old royal
English princess plans for the IRISH
IN whose homes there vas no bread
"'Why don't they buy it from the
baker," An Arkansas druggist kept
a demijohn into which be poured all
the remnants Of medicines in the bot.
tie sent to him to be 1eilled, and when
a case baf1led him he tried some of
that mixture on it. If all The rotor
mers, the editors, preachers, and soci.
Ologists could mix their remedies and
apply them to the variou. ''evils" it
would be like a Lexington druggists
patent medicipes-"good as any, that
they do give us. The tramp evil IS
not a speculation with me, fol | was
for years a contractor for government,
railroad and other corporations and
lived in oaily contract for years with
working men and what l knou OF the
tramp evil | learned by seeing how and
why it originates. The N. Y. Tribune
says the trouble all comes from people
leaving farms and crowding into cities
and the N. Y. Times says it is because
farming is so easily learned that too
many go at 1t and the result is over
production, They tramp because
bread is cheap.
Three professors of economics in a
New England college came into the
house in which l room and when &C.
quainted l asked them il they had seen
Wilson'S Financial Philosophy IN al.
cove Z in the Congressional Library.
As they had not, l showed them a CODY
and they read it, discussed it and
asked why they had never seen it in a
bookstore. l told them it was in some
OF them, carefully hidden away, for if
the issue banks officers found out that
the bookseller was selling it, they
would cut of his line of accommoda.
tions and let him drop. The great
booksellers, Harpers, Appletons, ETC.,
have tailed and are said to be now
run by banks.
Having said so much by way of
preface there Is little room left to
say more. Gouge foretold in 1888
that we would get into these conti.
tions, the reason why we would and
that no body would look for the cause
or try to remove it but would make
efforts TO cure the conditions and the
remaining, the conditions would re-
main. The cause in the displacement
OF money and the substitution fer i, of
what Webster defined as t%hief.curren.
cy. The tramp evil is one Of the
many branches of that upas tree. We
can't walk always 10 the wrong direc-
ton and get 10 the right place. We
can't ignore The laws of health and not
pay the penalty. We cant ignore the
multiplication table and solve prob
lens in mathmetics. We can ignore
the science Of money and know sociol-
ogy. We can't foil to apply the
science Of money to government aud
not have uamps. The science Of