I know the mind of employers, and I know their difficulties; I have been too often in touch with them not to know.

I have also been in touch with many men who have been in the shelters, elevators, bridges, labour homes and tents; I know their experience has been one of disappointment.

I have written on behalf of such men to the "head-quarters," but nothing has resulted but a few days' work at wood-chopping, envelope addressing, or bill distributing, none of which can be called employment.
Day after day men who have been led to expect work wait, and wait in vain, in or about the head-quarters for the promised work that so rarely comes.

For these men I am concerned, for them I am bold enough to risk the censure of good people, for I hold that it is not only cruel, but wicked to excite in homeless men hopes that cannot possibly be realised.
This point has been driven home to my very heart, for I have seen what comes to pass when the spark of hope is extinguished.

Better, far better, that a man who is "down" should trust to his own exertions and rely upon himself than entertain illusions and rely upon others.
And now I close by presenting in catalogue form some of the steps that I believe to be necessary for dealing with the terrible problems of our great underworld.
First: the permanent detention and segregation of all who are classified as feeble-minded.