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  THE VAGRANCY PROBLEM

  THE CASE FOR MEASURES OF RESTRAINT
  FOR
  TRAMPS, LOAFERS, AND
  UNEMPLOYABLES:

  With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and
  Labour Houses.


  BY

  WILLIAM HARBUTT DAWSON

  Author of "The Evolution of Modern Germany,"
  "German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle,"
  "Prince Bismarck and State Socialism,"
  "The German Workman," etc., etc.


  London:
  P. S. KING & SON,
  ORCHARD HOUSE, WESTMINSTER.
  1910




"In all ways it needs, especially in these times, to be proclaimed
aloud that for the idle man there is no place in this England of ours.
He that will not work, and save according to his means, let him go
elsewhither; let him know that for _him_ the law has made no soft
provision, but a hard and stern one; that by the law of nature, which
the law of England would vainly contend against in the long run, _he_
is doomed either to quit these habits, or miserably be extruded from
this earth, which is made on principles different from these. He that
will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his
necessity; there is no law juster than that....

"Let paralysis retire into secret places and dormitories proper for it;
the public highways ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating
that motion is impossible. Paralytic;--and also, thank Heaven, entirely
false! Listen to a thinker of another sort: 'All evil, and this evil
too