Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — Make the Poor Parm Meat. [ARTICLE]

Make the Poor Parm Meat.

The Indianapolis Journal gives some wholesome counsel in behalf of the workingmen, or those who would be such if they could get employment, urging that when congress meets it should resume work niit the public buildings and improvement* which have been in progress and suspended, so oe to employ as many idle mem as possible. But while this doubtless should be done, wo four that paper looks to oongress tor more sensible relief from present and approaching suffering than it will or can afford. IVe think attention should be given to inquiry os to what each county board can dy in hiring work done upon the county farm, in order to employ the idle poor ia draining, clearing and the like ini-; provements. They Can have a comfortable living at. the county home quite cheap, ans by good management be rendered self-sus-taining. Let us look upon the county home no longer as a place of degradation and disgrOTfe, bat one where we have all, by taxes paid, insured onrastvts employment and subsistence when we fail to find them elsowherb, to be takenss of right our own, as honorably as the payment of a life or fire insurance policy in* case of loss. That place should be so deceqj, aud respectable that none need feel ashamed to be an in mate.—Yaltanraiso Yidetto. «——