Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — They Yielded at Once. [ARTICLE]

They Yielded at Once.

A strike which may be regarded as a parody on strikes has been successfully carried through in Sieradz, in Russian Poland. The professional beggars of the town have been in the habit of calling at every door on Fridays and receiving the customary alms of a Polish groschen, worth about half a cent. On a recent Friday they omitted their visit, and later sent around a delegate with the notice that, unless they received two groschens from each house, they would emigrate in a body to Czen stochau, where a miraculous image ol the Holy Virgin attracts pilgrims, and where beggars reap a rich harvest. As in return for the alms the beggars pray for the souls of the givers at morning mass, the good people of Sieradz yielded at once to the demand and kept their beggars.