If we would but act sensibly with these classes, I am sure we could then deal in an effectual manner with that portion of the nomads for whom there is hope.
If the vast amount of money that is poured out in the vain effort to help those whom it is impossible to help was devoted to those that are helpable, the difficulty would be solved.
So I would suggest, and it is no new suggestion, that all philanthropic societies that deal with the submerged should unite and co-ordinate with the authorities.

That private individuals who have money, time or ability at their command should unite with them.

That one great all-embracing organisation, empowered and aided by the State, should be formed, to which the man, woman or family that is overtaken or overwhelmed by misfortune could turn in time of their need with the assurance that their needs would be sympathetically considered and their requirements wisely attended to.
An organisation of this description would prevent tens of thousands from becoming vagrants, and a world of misery and unspeakable squalor would be prevented.
The recent Report on the Poor Law foreshadows an effort of this description, and in Germany this method is tried with undoubted success.
Some day we shall try it, but that day will not come till we have realised how futile, how expensive our present methods are.

The Poor Law system needs recasting.

Charity must be divorced from religion.
Philanthropic and semi-religious organisations must be separated from their commercial instincts and commercial greed.