| Show A NEW WAY WITH TRAMPS TRAMPS are one of the nuisances and one of the products of modern bodein civilization I 1 how to suppress the evil is one of the problems of civilization W while there is an excess of laborers over the demands for labor there win will be and while there looking for work there will be tramps W who ho do not want any work in dealing with the nuisance of idle and vicious tramps care must be taken not to do injustice and wrong to unfortunate and deserving tramps it is bad enough ti to be compelled to roam from place to place seeking em to earn enough to keep beep bodyne body and nd soul together without being treated asa as a thief and a ruffian because the wear and tear of tramping impart a general air of shai both to the tramp and his apparel an opportunity to work for a meal or for wages will usually soon demonstrate the class to anich the unrespectable looking tramp belongs among the devices to thich which town and county autho authorities have to resort in order to suppress tue the tramp nuisance the adopted recently by the board of supervisors of westchester cl county new york york stands unique it is something like tile the medical maltreatment treatment which aimes to cure a disease by killing the patient the plan glan provides for the erection of a building on the county farm eon con strutted ted with cells that can be flold flooded ed with ith water to the depth of six feet when a tramp caught la is the justice is required to sentence him to this tramp pit he is to be placed in one brie of tile the compartments and the water Is to be turned on to save his life hempst scoop out the water as fast as it comes in or in the language of resolution abe be a submerged ab merged thereby this is civilization with a vengeance it the strength of a hungry and tired tramp should fail so that lie he was unable to bale out the flood and thus bale himself out of danger his chis arson would be his bis tomb and his penalty for being a tramp would be a watery latefy grave the process would be doubtless a strong incentive to labor but what benefit would accrue to 16 the state b by the cing process it would le be as senseless as the old military punishment of carrying a heavy weight a certain distance aud and packing it back again those westchester county supervisors are to be classed with the geni asses of civilization on the first case of a tramp submerged thereby they ought to be sentenced cea to their own baling process w without phout ball bail on appeal the untutored savage Is supposed t to be an adept at tortu rebut the civilized inventors of the water way ay to suppress tramps are ot of a deeper dye by i several everal shades toan than the sanguinary red nian man |
