The workhouse, the prison, the Church Army and the Salvation Army's shelters and labour homes must no longer form the circle round which so many hopelessly wander.
No man or set of men must be considered the saviour of the poor, and though much knowledge will be required, it perhaps will be well not to have too much.
Above all, the desire to prevent, rather than the desire to restore, must be the aim of the organisation which should embrace every parish in our land.
Finally, and in a few words, my methods would be detention and protective care for the afflicted or defective, detention and segregation for the tramps, and a great charitable State-aided organisation to deal with the unfortunate.
Tramps we shall continue to have, but there need be nothing degrading about them, if only the professional element can be eliminated.
Labour exchanges are doing a splendid work for the genuine working man whose labour must often be migratory.

But every labour exchange should have its clean lodging-house, in which the decent fellows who want work, and are fitted for work, may stay for a night, and thus avoid the contamination attending the common lodging-houses or the degradation and detention attending casual wards.
There exists, I am sure, great possibilities for good in labour exchanges, if, and if only, their services can be devoted to the genuinely unemployed.
Already I have said they are doing much, and one of the most useful things they do is the advancement of rail-fares to men when work is obtained at a distance.

A development in this direction will do much to end the disasters that attend decent fellows when they go on tramp.
Migratory labour is unfortunately an absolute necessity, for our industrial and commercial life demand it, and almost depend upon it.
The men who supply that want are quite as useful citizens as the men who have permanent and settled work.

But their lives are subject to many dangers, temptations, and privations from which they ought to be delivered.
The more I reflect upon the present methods for dealing with professional tramps, the more I am persuaded that these methods are foolish and extravagant.

But the more I reflect on the life of the genuinely unemployed that earnestly desire work and are compelled to tramp in search of it, the more I am persuaded that such life is attended by many dangers.