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Show ONE DRUNK, THE OTHER HUNGRY. At noon today, the avant courier oi the army of the unemployed arrived and requested sufficient assistance to I purchase a meal. Handed a few I nickels, he was about to enter a restaurant res-taurant when a business man, observ-I observ-I ing that the stranger was not proceeding pro-ceeding toward a saloon, added to tho contribution. Further up the stroot a man of family, with his pants clinging to him In Charlie Chaplin style, staggered along and a bystander who knew him remarked that ho was a nuisance in need of a reprimand and then qualified quali-fied his statement by saying that (perhaps (per-haps the fellow was to be pitied. Years ago he started to drink and In the intervening years had absorbed a small fortune, leaving his family to economize and get along on almost nothing, while burdened with his dissipated dis-sipated carcaas. Now what should be done with the fellow who asked for enough to buy a meal and tho shattered hulk of a man with an uncontrollable appetite? The Standard has maintained that thetwo saouldJbe made wards of this great government; that the wanderer out of work and the drinker are men who have lost a grip on themselves andaxe too weak mentaljy to get on tholr feet again, and both should bo taken up bodily and placed, on a great farm or in some other place of usefulness use-fulness where they could be controlled, con-trolled, disciplined, reconstructed bodily bod-ily and spiritually and restored. |