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doles of the charitable ; or on the proceeds of vice and crime. The insufficiency of these to meet the needs of the case I kave also, I believe, proved to demonstration.
Therefore one of the first parts of our City programme will be the establishment of cheap food dep6ts, at which food of' various kinds will be supplied at the lowest possible cost price. These depots will be dovetailed in with othev parts of our scheme, which have yet to be described^ and the one •will help to support the other.
It may be objected that if we undertake to sell food at lower than the ordinary market rates, we shall interfere with the legitimate operations of trade. But to this we would answer that the same objection would be still more true in regard to charitable doles, which are given for nothing* And further*, we shall fix our prices with a view to covering the actual Cost of the food, st> that there will not be any probability of our interfering with ordinary market rates. Besides, should there be any very serious difficulty of the kind, we could always make a rule limiting the food sold at these depots tb those who cam£ under the operation of the other branches of bur social reform.
At the Outset it would probably be wisest to avoid all caste complications by confining ourselves entirely to uncooked food, leaving the people to do their own cooking, but it is very probable that before Ibng we should be forced to undertake the preparation of cooked food. We should of course pay due regard in this respect to the customs of the various castes, religions and nationalities concerned. To a. Hindoo for instance it would be extremely disagreeable to eat out Of the same dish as others, while Hahomraeduns, as one said to me the other day, only enjoy the meal the Inore, when others are sitting round the platter. These,
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