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Show HOBOES ON A FREIGHT- TRAIN. ' - A freight train, with fifty poverty-stricken men aboard, .-.l;-ed in Ogden last night from the west. A spokesman for the unfortunates unfortun-ates said they had .been rounded up and ordered to get out of Wells and Montello, Nevada, by the sheriff of Elko' county' and the way : was made easy for them to ride on the train to Ogden. Evidently the State of Nevada is proceeding to disgorge the remnants rem-nants of the Jeffries-Johnson crowd and the riff-raff are being spewed over Ogden and other points in Utahr- This brings up the question we have so often considered: Why not force every community and even the State, to accept its fair share of responsibility in caring for the human derelicts classed as undesirables? Nevada is not dealing justly with Utah, in inflicting on us the Aobo and criminal element, or even the poverty-stricken that, being neither vicious nor extremely offensive, yet are a burden. Nevada has a duty to perform in caring for. the drifting army of irrespon-sibles, irrespon-sibles, and if Nevada is not capable of res3training or helping them, then the State should receive aid from the national government. This system of giving the tramp or vagrant a "floater," or loading load-ing him on a freight car, for the purpose of dumping him on some . other community is all wrong, because.it is, in the first place, an outrageous out-rageous shirking of a duty which every community owes, weak or suffering human kind, and, secondly, it is a wrong against a neighbor neigh-bor to inflict a plague of want, woe and crime. Ogden is not free from this offending, but we have never been quite so bold in ridding our people of the undesirables as the Elko county authorities who, to free themselves from the obnoxious, commanded com-manded a freight train, and, loading the weary colony on the tops of box cars, said, "Begone!" ' ' There are a few in Ogden who would deal with weak women as the Nevada sheriff did with the stranded men, but the inhuman side of such a heartless hounding is brought home to us by this influx of miserable, helpless, hopeless men: As these wanderers reach our city, we give them'a kick and a cuff, to hurry them on to Evanston Wyoming, or some other place, never once asking ourselves as to whether these outcasts should be treated with any more consideration, considera-tion, for their sake and that of all society, than are the Pariah doga of India or the mongrel curs of Constantinople. |