Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1905 — A Living Nuisance. [ARTICLE]

A Living Nuisance.

There are all kinds of troubles and nuisanoes in the world and we think one cf the worst nuisances in the United States is the roaming gypsy. “He toils not neither does he spin;” by nature a cheat and a fraud. They are the terror of children, and no wonder, at the aevilishness they have done unto some of these little ones. He roams about stealing his substance or begging it through the country; he pays no taxes; oamps by the roadside and raids the neighboring hen-roosts, etc., besides scaring passing horses. When they strike a town the women overrun it, tell fortunes and incidentally lift anything that is bandy. And f none of them are ever known to produce a single dollar’s worth of their living by honest labor. In England these predatory wanderers have mostly been suppressed by stringent laws. The same oourse should be adopted Jn ill's country. In Indiana town and city offioers Bnd country road supervisors form a force which if properly authorized and direoted could s.on suppress, or at least greatly mitigate the nuisance. And all kinds of professional nomads should come under the same ban, including traveling horse traders, bear leaders etc.