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-beyond registering them in our labour bureau, and acting •'>a$go4>etwŁens in-finding ^employment for a. small .fraction 4f ? th$m, I d<^ not see what more can be done. However,* the majority <&Ł •• them have'well-to^o relations >and friends to whom they can turn, and except in cases of absolute destitution will not fall within the scope of the present effort,
Passing over these we come -to the poorest classes of ...peasant proprietors who, having mortgaged their tiny allotments to the hilt, have finally been sold up by the money-
- lender. Add to these again the more respectable sections of -day-laborers. Then there are the destitute among the weavers, tanners^ sweepers and other; portions of what constitute the
-. low-caste community. Out of these take $ow the case of the -weaver caste, with whom we iappen tabe particularly familiar, as our work in Q-ujarat is largely carried on
2 among < them. Since the introduction of machinery, their
- lot has come to be particularly pitiable. In one district it ^is reckoned that there are 400>000 of them. Previous to
the mills being started,- they . could , get a comfortable competence^ but year by year the margin of profit has been nar-
- rowed downj till at length absolute starvation is beginning to -stara them in the face, and that within measurable distance.
To the above we may add again the various gipsy1 tribes>
- "who" have no settled homes^ or regular . meams of > livelihood. ^Finallyythere are- the.non^religious mendicants, the religious >ones>being considered -as" not -coming within the . scope of
our I pres'ent-i effort, being provided f or-in, charitable institu-
' Repres6n%tives ibf > nfeiirty- all f. the. ^bove^ abound in our :eities, and when^ bothntowti' And . Tillage d^titutes. ©ame ^ ^to >be reckoned 'tOgetlifer, ' I d<5nOt think itfwilbbe^too)S0rioua ; 0r view to take^bf 'theilf . numbers, -to " reckon the^ absotetely
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