Show iU WOULD PROViDE VRI fOR ALL = The California ExSenator Writes on the Great Problem Social Conditions Me Asserts Demand the Passage of His Famous Tramp Bill NowProposes to Deal Drastically With ShirkersHonorable Unemployed Though to Have Employment to Maintain Them Steadily l I An act To give employment to the unemployed now widely known as the Daguc tramp bill passed both houses of time California I Legislature In 1S97 It was rendered Inoperative by reason of the neglect of the Governor I to append his signature to the same in the time required by the Constitution It will be introduced again at the next session and doubtless will become a law aa it receives generally the support sup-port of the press of the Slate of till political I po-litical parties It is the intention of the author and others to have the bill Introduced In the Legislature of every Slate in the Union The chief provisions of the bill arc Each county shall be divided into road districts to be Identical with super visoral districts and labor put upon the highways shall be under the control of the supervisors or commissioners one of whom may be roadmasler of his district dis-trict Any adult person upon showing to the satisfaction of the roadmaster or of tho Board of Supervisors that he is homeless and without means of support sup-port and In Immediate need of food clothing and lodging shall be employed by said ofllccrs to labor on the public highway or on the county farm under the direction of the roaclinastcr or superintendent su-perintendent of said farm for which service he shall be lodged given three meals per day and receive at the end of each week not less than 35 cents per day of eight hours labor for each days service But the board of supervisors may at Its discretion provide for a greater wage than 35 cents If In Its wisdom Justice to said unemployed ando and-o the county justifies such Increase The said unemployed shall be designated designat-ed as the honorable unemployed and they shall be at liberty at any lime to terminate paid engagement to labor by giving the roadmaster one days notice no-tice of such Intention If any ablebodied man refuses this offer and persists in begging and chooses choos-es to be a vagrant and is convicted of vagrancy then the sentence of the court shall be that said vagrant shall r 1 labor on the highway or county farm 00 days instead of being confined in jail In Idling or sent adrift as a floater float-er i At the end of his 00 days service he shall be paid 10 cents per day In cash for each day on which he may have performed labor lie can however how-ever remove his disgrace and accomplish accom-plish his discharge by signifying his desire to Join the class of the honorable I honor-able unemployed Thus it may be seen there Is an Incentive to every tramp and other unemployed man to become an industrious citizen No man under the operation of this law would have any excuse for begging beg-ging or going unhoused or hungry Cot he would have the legal right to be employed and to be paid for his labor all that tho condition of the county treasury might allow Under this law the State will save large sums of money now paid to Justices of the Peace and Constables as costs Moreover More-over our public highways would be Improved greatly and men would more than earn their keeping by labor on the county farm Again this bill opens up the way by which the practical ideas i of the socialist social-ist may be put Into operation without any sudden shock to our industrial system Here Is section 10 In full Sec 10 Tho Board of Supervisors of each county and city and county may I establish anil maintain manufacturing and repair shops dairies fruit and VCRC tiblo cannci le < and driers and other Industries In-dustries upon the county farm and count and city farms and provide employment therein for said honorable unemployed and vctjrtints under sentence when nc cs firy to properly utilize the labor of such persons Under this section as rapidly as inventions I In-ventions and laborSaving machinery displace workingmen every county can open opportunities for the public employment em-ployment of the displaced men One I can be made to balance the other Whenever there Is not sufficient work to be performed on the highways to I keep the men busy they can be trans fererd to tho county farm and vice I versa When the number of men on the farm is too large for a small farm the enterprise can be enlarged in size I If found necessary manufacturing and other Industries > can be Inaugurated I repeatedly have shown that under this bill not only the tramp problem would be solved but that the Slate I r r I 1 + r r 11 l 1i l sww l I1 ren > Arf O iSsss j + t r t rI12 I i tf r 5ii I i Irv 1 I I I > 1 I IN I 1 It l 1 1 i lIf I 7 < 9 > I1rt rr Irvt 4 i l t 1 1 1 r ExSenator B A Dagu e of California would save annually thousand larsnot inking Into aCCOunt the 1 advantages which would be 1ra passage of this labor hilt gre1ltle out of tho labor market iJSffj t I h thousands of men now king hundtc emplo men at low wages The IncIta e CrJ suit of this would be to adVanct liable i n wages of hose now employed very apparent reason that the fOr lit cants for positions i would u be 1 by ar many thousand s as would 1r > I 0 ultl QLt public employment o Gray The problem of the most Important question unemploYed tgthr now Ing tho American people Iglinfmaf t years It must be solved or thJ ales < < Sieat financial crash or cjctcntWi1111 strike will be followed xlefrerJla by rlo s disorder which ma aI may ripen Into KI revolution The undersigned nto bl > ° A1 statesmen the humanliapSS8 ft h > clergymen tho editors the law1 ahm thj laborI ers all lovers of humanity Mlta4 and order to give the Dnguo bill 18 ° ° examination and If earth 1 It meets With Ltul approval to assist In placing Itui 1 1 the statute books of every Slate 1 In Union i > A B10hh lG9 t Alameda Cal E Jt |