1 76 HEREDITY. 



We ought not to give out charity miscellaneously. 

 We effect most with it when we put it for dis- 

 tribution into the hands of those who know the 

 people they are aiding. The insufficient sifting- 

 machine we possess already can and ought to be 

 enlarged. There are employment-bureaus in young 

 men's associations ; what is the trouble with them ? 

 They have more work than they can do. There are 

 philanthropists of the first water engaged in young 

 men's Christian associations all over this land ; and 

 you starve them on pinching salaries, when the work 

 in which they are engaged in our great cities is 

 almost as essential as that of the police. I under- 

 take to say that the practice of your average mer- 

 chant in Boston is wise when a beggar comes to him, 

 and he sends him to his previous emplo}*ers to bring 

 a certificate. He sends him to the city missionary, 

 who ought to know whether the man is a worthy 

 character or unworthy. He sends him to an employ- 

 ment-bureau, and asks, " What is the reputation of 

 this man ? " You need young men's Christian asso- 

 ciations, Christian unions, employment bureaus, what- 

 ever you call them, willing to look into the cases of 

 these unemployed young men, and to sift the worthy 

 from the unworthy, and help the worthy. [Ap 

 plause.] Let us increase the efficiency of the sifting 

 machinery of which experience has already proved 

 the value. 



Five thousand men marching through this city, with 

 a banner over them inscribed, " Hunger knows no 

 law! " A most infamous motto ! Hunger does know 



