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Employing the Industrial Beggars

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 27.

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Employing the Industrial Beggars

Among the things advocated at the Good Roads Congress was construction of a national system of paved highways connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, and the Great Lakes and the gulf. This would be a good place to employ the "Industrial Beggars of the World." There are thousands who are tramping the country, able to work; and if states, or nation, were building a highway, they ought to be compelled to work, and nominal wages paid them. If they are bound to live upon the people without earning their living, the people should have something to say as to how that living should be furnished.