71 THE LETTER THAT 



PROMPTED THIS BOOK 



far as to compel to go to the farm those who are 

 manifestly unable to eke out a living in the city 

 and thus are on the way (if they have not been 

 so already) to injuring themselves and becoming 

 a charge to the community. Ultimately the com- 

 munity, for its own protection, sends its vagrants 

 and criminals to the workhouse and the peniten- 

 tiary, and it is largely from the ranks of these 

 unfit citizens that criminals are made. Why not 

 prevention instead of a "cure" that will never 

 cure! 



MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS. 



To-day there are the most conflicting ideas on 

 foot to aid the poor and needy of our cities 

 some practical, most of them merely theoretical 

 but too many for the good they may do. 



Ex-President Cleveland and Prof. Felix 

 Adler seem to realize, as the Bible says, that 

 "the poor shall never cease out of the land." 

 It was Prof. Adler who a few days ago declared 

 boldly that there was no hope for the poor; 

 while Mr. Cleveland, in an interview in a daily 

 paper, holds out only a faint hope for the needy 

 ones, and wishes to encourage charity through 



