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to the direct benefit of the railroad interest, in fur- 

 nishing a large amount of travel and business to sub- 

 urban homes, and value to outside lands and rents. 

 By this means one of the greatest evils that afflict 

 society may be thoroughly and permanently removed, 

 to the benefit of all, and without cost to any, except 

 the owners of the tenement houses. 



Under the operation of the six hour rule the tramps 

 would quickly disappear. The small farms and the 

 various industries of the country would absorb them 

 all ; and instead of being the itinerant pests of socie- 

 ty, they would become valuable members of the social 

 and political community producing, consuming, and 

 adding their equal share to the wealth of society. 



This bringing of all into the industries of the coun- 

 try this giving of employment to the idle having 

 secured to the small farmer the fullest opportunity for 

 life and its enjoyments ; having relieved the tenement 

 houses of the cities and towns ; and brought the tramp 

 into useful and profitable occupation, it may with con- 

 fidence be expected that again would the poor be lim- 

 ited to the halt and the blind, the aged and the in- 

 firm, the widow and the fatherless* those whom the 

 Master declared we should always have with us ; and 

 the beggar would again become a stranger. 



With the strength that society would gain by these 

 great changes there can be little doubt that the demon 

 of intemperance may be successfully attacked, and ul- 

 timately wiped out. The great causes of its general 

 prevalence having been removed, the evil itself might 

 be destroyed. 



And in education, with renewed prosperity and 



