AS TO STURDY BEGGARS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2516, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

AS TO STURDY BEGGARS.

Mexdicancv has never yet developed a high type, of mauliood. It lias been tried extensively enough. America is destined to go on with it for a long time to come. It is time now to cheek the spread of it. A protectionist is a whining mtndicant when he is not a bullying tramp. He begins hat in hand and is your very humble sarvant. A trifle to feed his starving "infants," for the pure love of God. A few pennies, your 'anner for the childber. The childher, grown to strapping beggarhood, each with a bludgeon in its list, and the whine is changed lor the footpad's " your money or your

life." Instead of bendiug the energies and wits God has given them to earning a livelihood by honest work, they have learned to run to the Poor Law for relief from the ills that honest men fight down. All they ask is, to live off other men. To secure this end they are prepared to bribe the Guardians and back their claims with perjuries. It is notorious that no showing made by any of these sturdy beggars in regard to his peculiar industry can be believed under oath. Not one assertion made by them has failed of beiug proved a wilful and elaborate falsehood. The last of these is a month old. They circulated a Memorial showing that the reduction of 75 cents per ton made by the Mil.'a bill on pig irou would destroy that infant iudustry. They "proved" this proposition by figures of actual workiug. Before the bill was out of the committee they voluntarily reduced the price $2 per ton to meet the competition of Alabama furnaces. So the memorial they presented to Congress and backed by their oaths was a deliberately elaborated lie; But what different would you expect from a mendicant, a sturdy beggar, willingly living off the Poor Law ? This sort of protectionists might become hateful were they less contemptible. They are hateful when they play the footpad ; but when they hold out the hat and whine, a white man in that posture is too pitiful to invite more than a harmless kick.—American Paper.