Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1880 — Willing to Work. [ARTICLE]

Willing to Work.

“Saw wood! Saw wood for my dinner!” said a tramp, with a look of horror. “Not much I won’t. It isn’t that I object to labor.l yield to no man in respect for the God-given privilege of earning my sweat—l mean sweating my earnings—that is to say, breading my earn by the brow of—you know what I mean. lam ready,anxious, to work. Give me some hay to spread right out here in the snow. Show me where there is a stone wall to lay—behind,’ Anything but helping in the most distant way to devastate the mighty forests of this broad land, that the Almighty meant to gather moisture and induce the reviving rain to fall upon the parched earth. Why, do you know that this continent is doomed to become.an arid desert if this destruction goes on? It’s a fact;t and I won’t be a party to it. No forest, no rain. I decline the responsibility for it. Tell me vou’ve got some coal to carry in, and‘l’ll see if I can’t send you a boy to do it; but no wood-sawing for me r if you please.” The Pacific mutual marine and inland insurance company, of New York, have resolved to appoint trustees and go into liquidation. Heavy losses during the past year on the lakes and Atlantic, together with low rates of premium, are the cause.