The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-02-23
A TRMPS STORY
OF an Awful Plot to Awaken The
National Conscience of the
Evil of Excessive Wealth.

nxzeating, but this fellows story is
a 4abric woven of such strange and
wsrd material that | thought it
might not be wholly wanting in in
asrest for your readers.
ha MINER indicating a confirm
cd habit of begging he approached
une with will you give me stamp
sr,"
Ipassed out the red square, and
hecontinued, Its to my old mother
sir. the only soul on earth who cares
a rnss whether am on the ground
ar vnder it"
But for the type of his intelligence
and the cleanliness of his wellworn
unmatched clothes he looked like the
CANNON everyday railroad tramp.
Fitty-five Whereabouts and hair and
beard some weeks grown one hair to
dhe other white.
1T was kind of you, SIR" he con-
1nued, land ! hope you may find
spur reward in making glad the
heart of an old woman broken in
squirt and in health, living up in the
biggest and wickedest city in the
North"
Never mind" said, Its only a
arihe."
Il have seen better days, sir" he
went on, but that you will say is
tbe stock story of the unfortunate.
j put my all in a legitimate business
vsAture, but the robbers came and
a1tered me to stand and deliver. |
xrn not a coward, sir, and had they
cnme with sand bags and gunny
sucks | shouts have my fortune and
NO honor, but the scoundrels came
Witn arms invincible, they owned a
majority of the stock"
Touched to pity by the fellows
ast1Ey | ventured the consolatary
suggestion that a reformation was
aejng wraught in the conscience of
mankind, and that the public SEN
aGnent once aroused would slowly
lr0t surely put period to the ruth
c,S reign of avariciouss wealth.
May God will, "he rejoined, that
sBch mild agencies as you mention
KY work the ends you contemplate
b1t force more certain swift and
dreadful pursues the same ends.
by astonisted silence queried him
and he answered. Desperation, sir,
a force that must at last transcend
al bounds and over its broken bar
sies leap in wild confusion"
Through what intruments will
that force dicover itself" | asked. !
Through men, sir. Just as the
seething laundering bowels of the
earth find holes through which they
move, will a desperate social fer
Dent cast up men fit instruments to
restore an equilibrium. "
From what points of the bubbling
social caldron do you expect such
to rise?" asked.
They have risen already, sir"
IL large city of the North, where
t,s wretchedness Of the populace is
G rtater, a few small tradesmen,
vfspm the accursed rebate system
was fast driving to the wall, were
kidding a council. A small thin man
catered the council room. He was
TJ. a tradesman, but a student-an
;3xerver Of men and affairs. He
foresight, courage and
azring. He figured in colossal col
IrzB.
Ehe small thin man Il am for
rANUus reasons calling no names said
ts4 tramp)was called to the rostrum.
Z am he began, going to waste no
line diagnosing the disease. Every
school boy knows that the brazen
of wealth is the we'll
gang Of all the wretchedness /,
q the industries poor of this land
SAT the remedy, are you ready to
lEAec it? (cries of Wen hear it, wen .
lss.r it, Let me prepare your minds ,
, dttIe. Is the lightning that cleaves /,
3e clouds and rends sometimes our :
'is&ely church spires, and leveling
'errhance the suppliant WorShipers
Il the altar, necessity 10 restore
he equilibrium IN the aerial depths? J
cries Of il l., It is) j. the wasteful d
,gsricane, ieyriing alike the princes 6
sssae, q ne, -3sity 10 restore to pu. a
5iy and sweetness the air we
gvmth? cries of it is. it Isl Is the {