The Greeley tribune., 1906-04-19
GOD BLESS OUR HOME
Our Mr.. Satiricus Breaks Out in
New Spot.

Our Mr.. Satiricus Breaks Out in
a New Spot.
Editor the Tribune: I notice that
Vesuvius has broken out again.
And they tell US in the dispatches
that four villages have been com
pletely destroyed, hundreds of lives
lost and millions of dollars worth of
property gone up in smoke or buried
in ashes. Queer now, isn't it, that
human beings can be induced to live
in region like that? For it Is said
that one of the villages upon that
hoarys. mountain side has been de-
stroyed by the, ,eruptions of Vesuvius
sixteen times since history made re-
cord of its. doinRs. One would sup
pose now, that one dose Of that kind
would be sufficient. But no; just as
soon as the ashes have cooled little,
and the mountain has stopped NUT
tering for day or two, those who
are not dead, or too crippled to
crawl, or too blind to see their way,
will climb back to the ruins of
their blessed homes and after put
ting up rude shacks that will tenn
porarily protect them from the sun
and rain begin business once more at
the old stands.
And there was Galveston; visited
by a tidal wave few years since,
which totally submerged the greater
share of the city and incidentally
drowned some six thousand of the
people. One would infer again,
looking at the matter from dis
tance, and in ignorance of the i'm
mense advantages connected with a
hole in the ground some thirty feet
under high water, for permanent
residence, that one experience Of
that kind would answer for those
who got out alive, and that all
would have hiked for the sandl ills.
But they didn't; on the contrary
these survivors have mortgaged
themselves clear above their new
chimney tops in order to build sea
wall across their front; and they
have meantime lifted themselves
high in the air on stills until they
can fill into their beautiful city
some thirty odd feet of sea mud and
sand. Sea breezes, sea gulls and
gutter snipes were so attractive to
those people that they simply hadn't
the hearts to desert the sites Of
their late charming homes for any
other locality in the world. In short
they were of the inspired stuff that
the famous South Dakota family was
made of which lived number of
years since in that happy region,
Dead Horse Gulch.' They were
patriotic people and loved their
adopted country. They put out a
shingle notifying the public passerby
that tney we're Twenty miles from
water; thirty miles from timber and
out of flour; but God bless out
home.''
There has been a famine in the
over populated poverty stricken
southern provinces of Italy for sew
eral seasons in succession in the i'm
mediate past, and the people have
simply had to leave their country or
die. AS consequence they have
migrated to our shores by the hun
dreds of thousands. And what do
they do in great America, where we
have population of only twenty-five
to the square mile? Why, they set
tie in the slums of New York City,
SO the authorities tell us, down in
Tenth Ward and Mulberry Bend, the
most densely populated region on
the face of the earth, and nothing
can induce them to 60 away from
there or stay away ii temporarily
carried away. If permitted, they
will sleep six in bed and live from
fifteen to twenty in single room ;
and If by any possibility some of the
women can be induced to make tenn