The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02

IN sLu DOWN AS VERY BAD.
 tramp and so on. J, contains two items about rohherics in tae suburbs and says they were undoubtedly com mlltcd by wamps. Millions of men and women talk about Tump5 as glib ,y as you please, and yc, uot one In thousand knows a tramp for what he Is. The police don't The judges don't
 "You will find many a book in which the author says he went t0 sea because 1t was in his blood. He was born wandercr-u uomad No one ever cru- clses him for it It's only when you come to the uomad of the land where they call him Jho tramp that can sec no good in h.m. Tue only real differ ence is that one wuuue.s the sea and the other thc highways. They are rest less instead or vicious spirits. I've uampcd this country from end Co end three different times. and yet Pm ncgy- ous to go ovev tho old roads again.
 How many Jum.au tramp did you ever see? I'm mot talking about tbc corner buns. but abau. ua.gs. m wager that you never saw ,l.ea the worse for I.lgor Your Uru..a iona. is not a druuEgrj He has ur more taste for liquor than the avu~..o citizen and far fewer opportunities a .rn..y i- When you hear ot half 50 dozen wamps being gathered in on go ra.d 1t means half dozen men who have not left the city for yeaUs-iroe lunch fcads and corner loaferS.
 As for lazy tr0mps, never met one I've met them working by tGe month, the week and the day. and I've met them working for meal They are aI- ways willing to pay their way They expect to render quiI pro Quo AS a rule. when working for a mud-out meal their labor Is worth more than the food.
 And about robberIcs in suburb or country. Not one time u 8 hundred is It the tramp Us the hoodlum. Its the chaps who know where they can sell their pluudcr. The tramp knows Of no one to buy, even i' he should accumulate plunder. They cal. Che fcl- lows on the park benches tamus They call the slccpprs ia doorwgys trwmDs. They are of their bases. They are city buns, pure and simple.
 Is Net Vicious.
 "Why should a tramp he more vi- cious than the average man: He isn't There's nothing to make him vicious. Ic is having a fairly happy time of it ul Is willing to live and let live. ] muJ'ug my own business and respect ru, Co al1 and yet was set upon by the town bully If hn got what he de- served then I was arro .ya gs a vi- cious tramp. The buns nd Igafers arc in a class by themselves. and the tramp wants uoth'ra % fo with them
 "Onc of the Cu . Hm of the road Is tramp r.r..A. il's been tried on me a hund.n1 .Imcs. Say knock at the door of a house in a village and ask for a bic .o eat. The woman or girl goes away for instructions. and man appears It may be tUe minister or one of the deacous ] ann invited in. am requested Co tell my story, be- ginning back when | was eight years oId-gc smoking drinking. chewing ly- Ing. going to the circus and fifty other ,hlngs. om told that society is ready to receive me. am to he aided to climb ladder. Then l am prayed with and turned out into the night as hum yry as a wolf. Why that man fairly encourages me to steal his own chick ems. Not a nickel, not crust but l must subsist on reform,
 q have never struck village yet in which there wasn't need Of moral re- form, and yet they wait for me to come along and then shove lt under my nose. have no wife to bc0l no children to cuff, no desire to hang around sa- looms. am innocent Of theft ! worked for my last meal, and there are no chicken feathers on any clothes And vet because am a Gilap.aacd gen ! tleman I am supposed to be iu dire