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the country road and the incurably vicious and criminal of our cities. 
This class of non-producers, as is meet, jostle the other and more 
fortunate producers who are. rich through the toil of others. On 
Broadways and Fifth avenues, plutocrat and proletariat meet, the ex- 
tremes of society—both the sorry product of the same crime. The 
tramp and the thief are graduates of a school, founded and 
endowed by erring civilization. Only one lesson is taught there, a 
short, sharp, bitter lesson only too easily learned, only too easily put 
into practice. ‘‘ /¢ 2s easter to beg or to steal a dinner than to obtain 
a chance to earn one.” : 
Which of these two descriptions of the industrial world is the 
nearer a true picture of the civilization that is ? 
The answer to this question solves another. 
At the parting of the ways which path did mankind choose, 
the worse or the better way ? ; 
