Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1889 — Plain Talk About Tramps. [ARTICLE]

Plain Talk About Tramps.

The cause of tramps is found in tht absolute worthlessness of tho individual. As a rule the tramp is good for nothing, made so by his owr. motion, for which no other man, power, corporation, or Government is responsible, in this country, since its formation, for over a century, every man in it could if he would earn enough to comfortably feed, clothe, and educate himself and his family. And if he was economical and industrious he could and would grow rich. Our past history proves this fact. No other country on the face of God’s earth gives to the laboring man, to all classes, such advantages as this. No other country has shown so masiy wlx have risen from poverty to afimencn. Why, then, this continuous wUlnin-P Go to work.