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Show DR. RHODES AND THE TRAMP. I hat the tramp is a reversion to type is the; opinion of Dr. .1. Milson Rhodes of London, siu-dent siu-dent of the substrata of social life the world over. The tramp, be he the Weary Willie of the States or the vagabond of England or the continent, has the .shambling walk of the anthropoid ape. In other ways. too. Dr. Rhodes sees a strong resemblance. resem-blance. "I have walked with tramps and talked with tramps the world over." said Dr. Rhodes, "and everywhere! they are the same degenerate type. Resides Re-sides in the shuffling gait, the resemblance to the ape. is borne out in the man's face. There is not a sign of intelligence there. Morally, physic ally and mentally the tramp resembles the -ape more, and more each generation. We must discourage the growth of this class of men.'' The Catholic Journal. All this is in line with present day tendencies. It bears a close relation to Dr. Xorton's cult that unfortunates should be destroyed, with that of those Protestant bishops and 'doctors of England seventy-five years ago Avho endeavored, because of the poverty in the country, to have laws enacted by Parliament that would stop the birth of infants! With that of the Protestant reformers of England in the sixteenth' century, when Edward the Sixth had laws passed to brand beggars with redhot irons, and they were so branded. Prior to. the "glorious reformation." or, as we prefer to call it, plunder-bund, plunder-bund, such poverty, degradation and trampkm were never before witnessed. For an English doctor to make Mich assertions in a country where homeless men are bred by thousands, where men and women go down into their graves drunkards by thousands, is. ridiculous. England is a land dotted with almshouses and bread and water jails, and has been since King Henry VlIT.'s time, that "glorious" reformer who reformed the marriage law from one wife to six! In ihe South of our own country, where ii Catholic Journal is printed, the venal city governments gov-ernments are eternally and vigilantly seeking -for -men to accuse them of vagrancy, whereby they can have municipal work done gratis, and sonielimes these .arrested men, after being jailed without due cause, as they are in Salt Lake City and every other city of the Fnitod States are compelled, in the Southern States, to toil for private bosses. t Men are hired in Chicago to work on the levees along the Mississippi, are prevented from leaving, fed on rotten food and then turned adrift after working- three months without a dollar. Onlv recently re-cently a few men who tried to escape from a laboring camp, near Xew Orleans, were followed bv brutal overseers and bloodhounds, were brought" back and lashed in the free Republic of America. White men. loo! Treatment too dastardly for a beast. In the city of Raltimore. as recent as last winter, white men were shipped on oyster boat?, and after working two months in cold and miserable weather, from early morn to late at night, on wretched food, were turned adrift penniless! In the city of Chicago, only last winter, men were sent out to Wisconsin by wealthy ice companies, given $l..r0 1o cut ice ten hours a. day, many of them poorly clad, and compelled to pay. $L00 a week, board for food, the cheapest and the dirtiest that could be given them! Among the jails and alms houses of this vast 'country officials are pocketing funds that were appropriated for food and doling out a cheaper brand. Especially has this been the case in the city of Philadelphia. If Dr. Rhodes would, delve beneath the surface i a little; if he would observe the indifference of wealthy tramps and parishes; if he would notice industrial conditions, he might talk differently. Could Dr. Rhodes be enveloped with ignorance, could he be given a pick and shovel and told to labor all day in the heat of the sun. from year's end to year's end. he. too. might be a wanderer. Tramps are repulsive by reason of their poor and shabby clothes, yet an eternal (bid made them. : the same Cod that created Dr. Rhodes. Christ the Crcat. the Celestial Emperor, the (lod-made man, lived a wandering, homeless life. Some of th" brightest, gentlest and mrt charitable t.'f men wander wan-der as tramps. Oliver Goldsmith lived as a tramp before he became famous. Mr. Pulitzer, proprietor of ihe Xew York World, once sat as a young immigrant immi-grant in a Xew York city park half blind and homeless, a veritable tram.). Wo know of "'great" doctors and university professors pro-fessors who are nearer the ape in actions, utter-nuc-'s and writings th:tn th"se homeless, unlettered men whom the Savior of the world called the least of TTis brethren! Man's inhumanity not onlv engenders en-genders tramps, but thieves and murderers. "Does not the injustice of kincs breed anarchy? Who are sowing- seeds of f-dse doctrines in this wun-trv wun-trv fodav. doctrines of anarelu- and licentious freedom, free-dom, they who have most to fear from lawlessness. the opulent individual, toe lazy to do anything but drink champagne and Jke love to some other man's wife, till murd-i- j Hows; the powerful corporations cor-porations a::d the' v. ad !,,.. v,!,,,. V,.M. u.. sentences sen-tences a -turn to th.ve ;;;; breaking lona dm -ply !ecr.J-s- lie ir p k,.,1vs ,, of lav' a.i'd ju- i ie than a iV. u ! |