Year: 1879




laborer's woe. am man blessed with
a wife and two darling babes. My salary
is insufficient to support them and N.Y.
self in the princely manner l would like;
hence, a few days ago l approached my
employer upon the subject OF increasing
il. He pleaded that he could not afford
to do so, as business was not paying
largely, and his expenses were nearly
equal 10 his profits. l have wife and
six children, he said l insisted that l
must have more or leave. He concluded
10 consider the matter and report to me
in few days. called up again yester-
day, when he told me that he could get
au experienced man to take my place and
do my work for 20 per cent, less than I
was getting. He said the man was
young man and unmarried, and so could
afford to work for less. Now, was not
this o reflection on GOO? Who but God
gave me wife and two babes? And did
God design that young man should
take my place, or cut down my pay, and
thus take the bread from my family's
mouths? Never! The consequence is that
my salary has not been raised, and am
more OF slave and work harder than
ever, because l am afraid that this un-
known, unseen, but hideous bachelor
will get my job. My pay has not been
diminished, but spirits and independence
have been; and to me to-day bachelor.
a young man without a wife ano babes,
is a horror Of horrors. Why, sir, have
had to stop smoking, riding in horse cars,
theater-golng, taking down town lunches.
treating my friends and 80 forth, on ac-
count of the growth of my family and
immutability of my pay; and now it
looks as though darsness, thick dark.
ness, presided over by young, unmar-
ried man, had sat down on my once
bright future. Whichever way look is
hell; and here it occurs to me that hell
itself is ruled by bachelor.


Talk against the Chinameni II is not
because he is Cbinaman, but because
he is bachelor that the Chinaman
shonld be denied the blessings of our
glorious freedom. The truth is, Mr..
Editor, as it appears to my now open
eyes, that the real cause of the laborer's s
woe is the industry of the unmarried
men, not only Of America, but of the
world; and paradoxical as it is, Mr..
Editor, l shall henceforth and forever
raise my voice against unmarried men
who attempt to be industrious. Why,
do you ask? Well, sir, because every one
OF them who to-day has situation is
keeping some poor man with family
out of situation, or at least keeping
down his salary, 80 that he must deny
his family, or himself, or both, some
thing which would be good for them.
Besides, sir, it is well known that bach
elors are morally "off;" they live hud.
died together, from two to dozen some
times in one room-no married man car
do this; they do not come among US to
stay, but only to work and get large
sum to take away with them; they live
like pigs. too, sometimes. l know one
who came to this city when he wa!
twenty.one years old, and got a position
as q porter; and by living in a garre
and doing his own washing for while
worked up to position as partner, ant
when forty-two years old, retired Il
Michigan. carrying about half a milliol
dollars with him.


would like to know how long W
could endure such bachelors. The.
drink and smoke until they are stupid
and they teach our children to do thes
and other worse things. No decent mai
with family can live as they do, henc
he cannot compete with them in labor
Therefore, say, down with them. The
are impoverishing as by their labor An
competition. Now, sir, what shall W
do? They are here, we can't drive then
out, keep them out, kill them off; but W
oan prohibit their working at all, or {
least we can prohibit their working fo
less than 50 per day, or some prope
sum. such as will support man an
large family respectfully.


l wish you would awaken the peopl
on this subject. They are fretting abo,


the Chinese, and the tariff. and the ne!
President, and the Rebel brigadiers
Congress; but here is greater and MOI
grevious matter lying and gnawing


the very root of the existence of the fan
lily, and yet no voice has been raise
against that horror of horrors, the il
dustrious unmarried man. I say, M
Editor, we must get rid Of his indust


or of him. Yours. etc., A READER.


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