The Tramp!

messitge to the Legislatura of Ohio (}ov. William Allen t.bus refers to the tramp question : " The matter of pro fessional vagrancy ia one worthyof your attention. I am well aware that, owing to the general paralyzation of busi ness, a great many honest and industrious men are out of employment, anc in their efferts to find remunerative labor go from place to place with honesi purpose. But within a few years a class of vagrants has grown up in our miilst, who seize the dullness of business as pretext to roam over the country with no purpose except to secure a living by begging or illicit ineans. The evil should be arrested at once, The question is a difficult and a delicate one. Honest search for employment must not be branded as a crime, but vagrancy is a misdemeanor in itself which the law should suppress."