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'8. It 'benefits the public,
(a) It removes a public nuisance.
(b) And yet it satisfies the public conscience.
(c) It -stimulates private charity, and directs it*
generosity into wise and beneficial channels.
"9. It benefits the beggars.
(a) It protects the weak from the painful and often
unsuccessful struggle for existence. (&) It ensures everybody their daily food and a sufficiency of it.
(c) It restores their self respect.
(d) It teaches them habits of honesty, industry and
thrift.
(e) It opens up to them a pathway of promotion,
10. Finally it will furnish honest and honorable employment right away for hundreds of thousands all over the land, and create an entirely novel industry out of what is at present an absolute wreckage.
But I am well aware that certain objections are likely to be raised. These I would seek to remove, though if we are to wait for a plan which is free from all liability to criticism, we may wait for ever, and wait in vain. There is a famous answer given by John Wesley to a lady who was objecting to something about his work,—« Madam, if there were a perfect organization in the world, it would cease to be so the day that you and I entered into it" Hence it is not simply a question as to whether there are difficulties in the present proposals, but can anything better be suggested. However, I am anxious to meet in the fairest possible manner all conceivable objections, and am perfectly prepared to make any such modifications as may appear advisable.