New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1907-02-02
100 HANY WARRANTS.

wv itNINt NHIHANt1.
One Of the most importautt
questions Of the day il that whicl
pertains TO labor and household
servants, aud IT is because there is
an inclination of those who should
work for n living to take life easy
and thrive upon i'll gotten gains.
1T IL not that there is an insufficient
number OF persons who should be-
working IN some station, but that
these persons will not work SO
long as any other sveuue of max
ing n living is open.
In large cities the household ser
want question is more difficult to
solve than it should be in the smaI-
Ter onos. There are always other
occupations that are more attractive
to persons Of both sexes than ser
vice IN households. 1t is the gen
oral cry, North, East aud West
that the domestic" is fast becom,
ing An extinct species Of the human
race but this is because the indus
tries demand the services of MI of
both sexes who are competent to
labor.
But in the interior cities of the
South it ia different. There nre no
industries to call in use more than
small proportion of the people
who must live by some means or
other, and yet it is as difficult to
obtain servants aud Iaborers here
as in the industrial centers.
The fault lies partly with the
town officials and with the peo-
pie themselves The people
through long established habit
are feeding whole households of
idle persons. The cook who car
ries her basket home = rnpiApe !
the support for the youths, girls, /
men of her household and the fam e
lily that cannot get a servant won
ders why they are so scarce.
But while this is one encourage
ment TO idleness it is not so great .
n one as the life of vice which keeps u
a much larger proportion of per ,
sons who ought TO be laboring =
from the field of labor. 1t would :"
be difficult matter to find out lust 7
how large percentage of the clas- "
ses that should be laboring for ~ y.
their living, exists in every com. -
munity but measures have been ~
taken in some OF the Southern -
smaller cities to put . stop to this ="
dleness. Alexandria and other ''
titles closely watch the people and vi
[ it is found that person is living "
any apparent means Of -,
livelihood he or she is hauled up '"'
lnder the vagrancy act and forced W
o show tl ut support is obtained ''
rom honest sources "u
There Ia no doubt but if the city .,
uthorities here aud in every other
ity in the South would adopt the -,
anne course, there would be less
lleness aud crime aud actual - -
lrift. Those who refused TO
ork for a living would quickly be ~.
breed to seek other locations and g.
leir absence would be better than ~
leir presence. The City could af- a.,
'rd to be without them. 20 -
A house visitation by the police so
18th close questioning as to the tod
cans of support would soon soll
ther cause plontitude of labor nov
a fitting to other fields of those 20,
no could not show that they are fro,
rning their bread by the sweat Gro,
their brows The vagrancy Inn
ws could be called into use aud ;ro
i into practice. They seem to lv n
producing good results else
iere and might serve the purpose II
re. or hg
-, Lax
The pc rsons OF either race, or any for
,ed or station who cannot show Gard
means of support should be made atiye
feel that there is no room for iianc
n or her in the community. you {
hen this rule is made to strictly ~ ~ 2
ply, there will not be so much
nplaint about the scarcity of I
or. A.
II ues
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