THE PROBLEM OF VICE AND CRIME 1Q3 



One fault in the past has been that reform 

 has resided too largely in the abstract. Specific 

 remedies for specific evils should be the rule. 

 Reformatory effort should be directed, as it has 

 signally failed to be directed in the past, toward 

 the production of pure and inspiring environment, 

 to the end that coming generations, if not our 

 own, may reap the benefit in manlier men and 

 more womanly women. 



Reform along the lines indicated in this paper 

 has already begun. The model dwelling-houses 

 in London and in New York are hints of what 

 is possible in improving one part of the environ- 

 ment of the lowest classes. The Children's Aid 

 Society, already mentioned, with its nearly one 

 hundred thousand children transported from city 

 wickedness to the comparative moral healthfulness 

 of the country, is a success which some day will 

 be still better appreciated than it is now. Tem- 

 perance workers at last are beginning to realize 

 that the best way to get rid of the tendency to 

 inebriety is to crowd it out with something good. 

 The most hopeful movement in the temperance 

 world to-day, among the lower classes, is found 

 in the English coffee-houses and Te-to-tums. 

 The late Dr. Dale, of Birmingham, in 1884 told 

 me that the chief of police informed him that 

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