THE VAGRANCY PROBLEM THE CASE FOR MEASURES OF RESTRAINT FOR TRAMPS, LOAFERS, AND UNEMPLOYABLES:
Reading edition
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, is a nightmare, the instant you begin to stir under it, the evil is, properly speaking, gone.'"—Thomas Carlyle, "Chartism."