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(9.) In case the food supply thus obtained should be ii sufficient, we have little doubt that we could persuade leadin merchants in the city to club together and make up th difference, when they saw the good work that was going or
Such in brief is a skeleton of the scheme for elevatinj and renovating the Beggar population of India. It is m doubt open to criticism on some points, but It has specia advantages which I will proceed to point out, apologising for the extra space I am obliged to occupy, in dealing witl this subject, on account of its novelty and importance, anc in order that I may be thoroughly understood.
1. It is conservative. Here you have a reformation without a revolution, or rather a revolution by means of s reformation. And yet there is no attempted upheaval oi society.
2. It is thoroughly Indian, and suited to the national
taste.
3. It costs nothing and may even prove in time a source of income to the Social Scheme.
4. It is doubly economical since it uses the human waste* in collecting what would be the natural wastage of the city,, and devotes each to the service of the other.
5. It is systematic and therefore bound to be as immensely superior to the present haphazard mode, as a regular* Army is to an undisciplined mob.
6. It unites the advantages of moral suasion, with those-of the most perfect religious equality and toleration.
7. It saves the State an enormous expenditure and avoids-the necessity for harsh, repressive, unpopular legislation, and increased taxation.