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Updated: May 18, 2025
It was the remittance-man's custom to pay his month's board and lodging straightway a duty which his landlord did not allow him to forget then spree away the rest of his money in a single night, then brood and mope and grieve in idleness till the next remittance came. It is a pathetic life. We had other remittance-men on board, it was said. At least they said they were R. M.'s. There were two.
It is true that in his own country he is taught to shirk work, because kind, silly people fall over each other to help and debauch and amuse him. Here, General January will stiffen him up. Remittance-men are an affliction to every branch of the Family, but your manners and morals can't be so tender as to suffer from a few thousand of them among your six millions.
There are so many remittance-men, invalids, idlers, speculators, and unbalanced enthusiasts that do more harm than good, that we need a few new landmarks. We need a few new cornerstones and keystones to stiffen the structure that is building so fast. I realize that we must build from the ground up not hang out tents from the trees. That day is past."
An artist blew in on the way to Nowhere, his baggage a tomato-can. He thought he would stop over for a day or two he is with us yet, and three years have gone by since he came, and now we could not do without him. Then we have a few Remittance-Men, sent to us from a distance, without return-tickets.
The answers were explicit: 'Because the English do not work. Because we are sick of Remittance-men and loafers sent out here. Because the English are rotten with Socialism. Because the English don't fit with our life. They kick at our way of doing things. They are always telling us how things are done in England. They carry frills!
It was the remittance-man's custom to pay his month's board and lodging straightway a duty which his landlord did not allow him to forget then spree away the rest of his money in a single night, then brood and mope and grieve in idleness till the next remittance came. It is a pathetic life. We had other remittance-men on board, it was said. At least they said they were R. M.'s. There were two.
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