Pretty Good Fellow After All

Mr. Tracy McGregor's address yester day morning in Newberry hall, on "Th Tramp as I liave found hini," was of n small interest to the liuiited audienc present. It was interesting hecaus it presented a different view o the tramp than one is accustomed to see. And giving Mr. McGregor du credit for the experience he has had witl the class concerning which he spoke, i cannot be denied that his view is more nearly correct, more human and inore practicable than the orthodox way o looking at the matter. In opening his address, Mr. McGregqr made an appeal for more discrimination in dealings with the unemployed anc dependent classes. He made the following analysis. Broadly speaking there are two classes : those who wan work and cannot get it, and others who won't work il' they can get it. The flrst class may be sub-divided once. First, there is the man who wants work, but does not care whether it is permanent or not. When he becomes at all dissatisfied with his place, his employers, or with his surroundings, he is ready and willing to drop his work, demand his pay, and move to pastures new. He lias earned enough for immediate needs, and when his pocketbook is again empty he will seek a new job. This class is not entirely to be condemned. When they work they work well. They ask no one to support them. When they have to, they are ready to work. The second subdivisión of the first class is made up of those men who are out of work and are looking for a permanent place. They do not want to move about. Their situation is more to be pitied and demands even more intelligent sympathy than that of the first named sub-division. There are also two subdiyisions of the second class mentioned, that is, of those unemployed who won't work even when they have an oppórtunity. First, there are those whom we denomínate as tramps. Their aim is to live honestly offother people. They would not steal, although they would occasionally borrow an overcoat. They simply have filed their objection to labor. Secondly, we have an element, larger than we are a ware, that makes a living by systematic criminality. They despise work, and even scorn those who do work. Some of them are away up in their trade, ors are away down in the scale. Some tnake a good thing out ofit, others do poorly. They are all on the same level as to principie. Tliis was Mr. McGregor's analysis, which makes evident that the difl'erent men thatniake up tlie different elementa need different treatment to get them into the ranks of honest workingmen. Xot nearly all of them are to blame for their condition and their situation. ïhere are many causes for their position. They are both primary and secondary. Some of them date back to conditions of birth, others have arisen from the circumstances of life. Some are reasons within the man, others are without and beyond his control. The various conditions demauds various methods of appealing to the man. You must trust them a little bit to get them started again. A great deal of the help extended is given so ignorantly that it had better not be given at all. Aid should be intelligently given or else withheld. In closiug Mr. McGregorsaid that in all his experience he had had it more and more impressed apon him that the most efficiënt aid is al wrvs accompanied or animated by the principies of the ( rospel of Christ. They must not be thrust upon men, but must be applied to each man according to his condition.