A Snap For Bums

Chicago, 1908

A city newspaper has started a movement to provide meals and lodgings for unemployed single men, without pay or price. Without questioning the free advertising the paper may get from it, the course is very ill advised and should be stopped, as it will mean the assembling of every hungry "bum" and "hobo" in the country who will hasten to Chicago where they may be provided with a good living without work.

Anyone can guess the answer to this; it will mean robberies, holdups and all kinds of crime perpetrated by these lazy and irresponsible tramps, who will avail themselves of the kind invitation of the paper.

The city relief committee proposes giving unemployed men work on the streets, each day's work to be paid for a ticket entitling those who work to three days' board and lodging, the two days may be used in hunting for work, and the committee will see to it that vagrants who will not seek employment will be arrested, and compelled to move on. This may seem hard hearted, but it is the only way the people of the city can be protected against the horde of bums who will flock to the city to avail themselves of the soft snap this paper is offering them.


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