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Show after he would give no "floater," but would require the tramp ole- ' meixt to serve out sentences on the chain gang, is a reversal of police court policy which should bring good results. , - We have no right to drive tramps to other towns. We should force them to labor for their own good and the good of the public until such time as they see fit to "move on" or are reformed. Perhaps Per-haps there are very few who will be reformed. The public should not be called upon to feed them without some compensation. By working them on the roads, the city is benefited to the extent at least of the equivalent of the meals the drifting men receive. - ; , ? There should be no attempt made to unnecessarily brand these men as prisoners. We speak of the "chain gang." Let us discard that term so suggestive of criminality and brutality. The vagrants placed on the streets should not be stigmatized. The idea uppermost should be to lift these men up rather than to make of them con-' firmed outcasts. WORKING THEM ON OUR STREETS. Treating on the same subject as did the Standard a day last week, the Denver News says: "Three hundred thousand able-bodied "tramps" are moving across and about the country. Some of them would work if they could find a job, and most of them would die first. Society has an equal duty to both classes: to see that the men who would work, may work, and that the man who would not work, shall work. These 300,000 consumers of other men's substance constitute in the aggregate a social menace. Where they would labor, but are without with-out opportunity, they have a sense of indignant hopelessness, which in some hour of dark suggestion drives them into the other and larger rank of men who choose to continue as ravagers upon society. 'The affliction fall3 upon society at large; these men toil not, and yet they are fed; they spin not, yet they are clothed. Society would deem itself cruel if it denied to them its benevolence. And yet, what it chooses to do as on unremunerated and continuous charity, it refuses. to do as a remunerative and final duty. It carries car-ries the burden of their sustenance in idleness, but declines to assume as-sume tho burden of their employment in productive labor. Surely we . deal with the case illogically. If it be their rijht to live, it is their right to work.' If society be under any compulsion of the humanities humani-ties to givo to them the wherewithal for food and raiment, it is an r qual command upon society to assure for them an opportunity to obey the holy law of labor. When society bestows sustenance to such as these it gives charity. When it affords labor it gives jus-tice. jus-tice. In the one case it perpetuates its own burdens, in the other it make3 the man carry his own. In the one case it degrades the- recipient, re-cipient, in the other it lifts him into the highest dignity of life." The declaration of Judge Murphy on Saturday last,' that here- |