The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-28
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WHAT TO SAY TODAY.
Table Talk for Bremlass Durins Thre'

those poor priesIs--Wefl. today Is go- ing to be another fne one We'll. the has besn anr oesn siona sse all along--I have made up my mind whom l am going to vote for but am not going to tell who he is--Well, that is every mans privilege.
 Luncheon--They say that Portugal Is just chock full of anarchists---fou watch what l tell you, they wall come over hero just so soon as they have completed their nefarious work therer- little Crown Prince---Iittle Prince Chap, eh?--I believe that with New York s police force they can stop a good many of them--Then how do they get to Denverf-Had you thought of that?
 Dinner-Politics is warming up-- Here's another rally added tor tonight Well, it is hard for a man to go to both--How about not going to either! today certainly gave me an appetite The weather was so bracing-somehow 1t reminded me of Easter coming on-- You know. I had that same kind of feeling-There l was In that crowded car with not another woman in it--I always think they are paying no more attention to them than they are to me- How much may that he---If we have this kind of weather tomorrow am going to take a car and take long walk through the country-I am aw fully fond of walking but l never get a chance to go.
 Wanted--At Once--yvisdona.
 There Is an opportunity tor q wise man to make himself famous, and per haps unpopular, and to make some pco. pie much happier than they are now (The text is about the unemployed and consequently incarcerated.p
 Manufactories have been closed, or perhaps only tho forces employed In them have been diminished; corpora tions. municipal and other, have TO- duced the numbers of their servants; of commercial affairs have been deet- mated; the railway companies have laid off their running men and their yardmen and their switchmen, by the Some of them are. perhaps, glad to bc unemployed; a great many feel that way about 1t; they like the idleness for which there Is just excuse. Sotl4e or the unemployed don't like ,nr,t it "t ,snx all; like to work whether from sense of duty or in a spiriC of gain; some havc families which they wish to tosteI and nurture; and they are ashamed o. n, not pronunciamento, handed down of God that a man shall eat his bread in tho sweat of his brow, was not so much a curse as commandment to which obedience Is pleasureable as well as ex@ pedient.
 But 1t is hard to follow that divine law when one is unemployed. One may not, as in the primordial days, induce profuse precipitation and acquire the bread by climbing a tree for nuts, ar grubbing in the ground for roots Now adays if one is to follow the divine law he must be on a payroll and have a number and ume-keeper and g watchman, and. perchance, union card So the unemployed may not sweat, except bloodily, nor eat, whe- ther moistly or not, save by the grace of the neighbor whose estate lyeth next his.
 But there is another law; it Is called the vagrancy law, and ought to be called the Vagaries law. IL wanders through the by-ways and hedges ot humanity and commando men who are not working to be hte them to prison. in hand with a conscientious constabu- lary. And, often enough, poor old Hugh comes out a sadder aud shrewo CT but not wiser or a better mar much sadder and shrewder that he can not stay out for long and must get himself into goal again. In the pop ular phrase of the day. he has been made a criminal.
 Hard times have made unemployed, the law has called them vagrants, and the officers who have taken oath Of mighty word and meaning put them into the jails whence comes out so lit- tie of the so much innocence that goes in The negroes have most suffered, 1t may be stated parenthetically, for they most of all have been placed among the unemployed, and, if whole truth must be said, perhaps there are among them comparatively more of those who wish excuse for idleness.
 This is the problem for the wise man:
 Given, an irresistible law of supply and demand for labor, in which the supply is excessive; item, a supposedly irresistible law of popular righteous and then erase 1t forever from the page of possibility.