Show 4 A nn n n FD up ag U TW IN IV 35 A 4 1 54 Z A w N ES J g 11 6 ir a za A g 01 BW csc alff aff si i lit M 1 t w 2 afi PP aar TIM 70 fo OTHER town in lI holland olland Is so infeR infected ted li bv beggars as is the N hague everi evera year sees the advent adient of more and more ot of that clan ot of undesirables the reason Is not tar far to seek tor for the hague possesses charitable eions so BO that a beggar 8 a little management can live all ill the year round on other peoples people s money at the hague aou ou can he be born fed clothed educated housed married and burled buried at no cost to 3 vours elt or your family you can secure medical at medicine vacation tails into the countr and a residence in a con va vale scent home all tor for nothing writes EL a correspondent of 0 the chicago dall dalla news nes besides the charitable institutions U ere are many people of 0 wealth and d leisure in the hague blague who would rath er glie give a small coin to a beggar than have the bother ot of refusing him and have hane him follow along part of the way shopkeepers dare not refuse a hand out to the vagrants grants a lest they obstruct their store entrances or bother their customers difficult to convict but is there then no law against la granc in hollanda Holland 7 certain there Na Is a but the trouble lies in tho the difficulty ot of convicting a man of 0 the ottense offense ot of mendicancy for all professional beg gars carrej alth ith them some wares tor for sale as their ostensible business Is that ot of itinerant sale ame these they show to any policeman who may attempt to convict them ot of begging but they v bould bo be terribly disappoint edlfin ed it am one bought their goods beggars run braai be divided roughly into three groups first the maimed who cannot work second the healthy men who ore are too lav laz or have haie too little en erg to work nork and third the probes rials the maimed beggars could emel find homes dedicated to their various ailments but they could not live such free and aas easi lives as thel do now nov tor for on an ai average they earn about twenty florins florans eight dollars a Z 4 7 an ancient hollander week which is more than many a hard working laborer can make barly enough it Is lust just among the poorer laborers that these beggars meet the most pity and find their atan chest supporters the health but lazy beggars are in reality the product ot of the large towns they are rec ruffed from the persons who have not b cra taught a regular trade among tte poorer people when ahen the boys leave school at the age of fourteen jears ears the parents cannot re the temptation to let them go out as errand or office bivs be a by which trev para earn about one and one halt half florins florans 60 cents a week which lit la quito quite an adal thin to tad the family income most alost er read rand boys learn nothing but to loaf about the streets and when they become too old to bo be employed as aa boy they join the unemployed for where it is in difficult for or skilled laborers to obtain regular employment it Is much harder for or those who have learned neither trade nor handicraft now they have no other alternative but to beg or steal generally they do both and it is from this contingent that the criminal class la Is reinforced it is 1 evident that this group could with some cars care be eliminated from the bagran beggar ral ranta the dutch gov has come to recognize this fact and has appointed a commission to assist parents in the choice ot of a trade or handicraft tor for their children and a mo movement ement Is on toot foot to induce the government to extend treo free cal education to those leaving the ele schools it might lio be necessary to make such tuition obligatory this would also keep the children off the streets at the most dangerous danger oui age it has been found impossible to re claim the professional beggar as the dutch government has been tautly forced to confess after expert for 25 vears ears with giving them work nork in the government agricultural colon veenhuizen Veen hulzen onla those con evicted of vagrancy or beggar begga rj or those sentenced to short terms of imprison merit ment lor for theft can be housed at veen hulzen after completing their term of imprisonment instead hov however eier of putting their knowledge of agriculture and other branches taught them into practise the men dismissed from th the c colony generally drift back to crime and prison and often pass their lives alter alternately alternated natel in prison and in zen they are degenerates on careful examination b bv alienists and medical men these professional beggars were nere all found to have hae some form of ps psychical chicag chical degeneration as well as some physical taint which must have haie made them the shiftless ia vagrants grants they eventually became almost out exception beggars of the third group come from the very nery poorest people vi iho ho are ill housed ill fed and ill clothed the task tor for the government with this class Is even more difficult than mth the others tor for here it Is not only education that Is needed but practically berthing ever eer thing better housing food and clothing for the whole nether most laver laer of society it will be almost impossible to re term the present generation of beg gars but it certainly bo be possible to prevent the rising generation of lm shed netherlanders Nether landers from swell ing the ranks of the idle poor A new nein method of dealing with beg ging Is now non to bo be tried begging itself Is not to be constituted an of offense fence but first its causes will bo be ha ted and for or this purpose several boci soci elies and institutions are to work ork together with the government when the causes liae have been ascertained an effort will be made to help the ual to overcome his difficulty dl and si 61 prevent him from becoming a perma nent burden upon society |