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eluding ones, which were placed in the most em- 

 phatic position by the petitioners, are not very un- 

 wise. What did this crowd want Saturday? Ten 

 measures of relief, public work for the poor, gov- 

 ernmental ascertainment of the number of unem- 

 ployed, out-door relief for the needy, new public 

 works, borrowing money for these purposes, repeal 

 of the law disfranchising all who have received re- 

 lief from the city within twelve months previous to 

 election, repeal of the law requiring the payment of 

 a poll-tax as a condition of voting, the prevention 

 of prison labor from competition with honest labor, 

 the abolition of the contract system. All that reads 

 very much like petroleum communism, except the 

 three opening propositions. There should be, and 

 there is, a certain amount of city employment for 

 any citizens of Boston who are among the unem- 

 ployed, provided it is ascertained that they are 

 greatly needy. There should be out-door relief ; and 

 such, within a certain range, is furnished in Boston 

 and all our large municipalities. There should be 

 governmental ascertainment of the number of the 

 unemployed ; and our noble Massachusetts Bureau 

 of Industry is prosecuting very successful inquiries 

 into the relations of capital and labor. But between 

 these opening and the closing propositions are sand- 

 wiched pieces of wildness fit only for a mob. All 

 experience is against these middle propositions, and 

 they are to be denounced in the name of the interest 

 of the poor. But here are two closing propositions 

 which seem to me to deserve success, and that ought 



