cilability of theoretical ethics and industrial
need.

And so the tramp becomes self-eliminating. And not only self! Since he
is manifestly unfit for things as they are, and since kind is prone to
beget kind, it is necessary that his kind cease with him, that his
progeny shall not be, that he play the eunuch's part in this twentieth
century after Christ. And he plays it. He does not breed. Sterility is
his portion, as it is the portion of the woman on the street. They might
have been mates, but society has decreed otherwise.

And, while it is not nice that these men should die, it is ordained that
they must die, and we should not quarrel with them if they cumber our
highways and kitchen stoops with their perambulating carcasses. This is
a form of elimination we not only countenance but compel. Therefore let
us be cheerful and honest about it. Let us be as stringent as we please
with our police regulations, but for goodness' sake let us refrain from
telling the tramp to go to work. Not only is it unkind, but it is untrue
and hypocritical. We know there is no work for him. As the scapegoat to
our economic and industrial sinning, or to the plan of things, if you
will, we should give him credit. Let us be just. He is so made.
Society made him. He did not make himself.

THE SCAB

In a competitive society, where men struggle with one another for food
and shelter, what is more natural than that generosity, when it
diminishes the food and shelter of men other than he who is generous,
should be held an accursed thing? Wise old saws to the contrary, he who
takes from a man's purse takes from his existence. To strike at a man's
food and shelter is to strike at his life; and in a society organized on
a tooth-and-nail basis, such an act, performed though it may be under the
guise of generosity, is none the less menacing and terrible.

It is for this reason that a laborer is so fiercely hostile to another
laborer who offers to work for less pay or longer hours. To hold his
place, (which is to live), he must offset this offer by another equally
liberal, which is equivalent to giving away somewhat from the food and
shelter he enjoys. To sell his day's work for $2, instead of $2.50,
means that he, his wife, and his children will not have so good a roof
over their heads, so warm clothes on their backs, so substantial food in
their stomachs. Meat will be bought less frequently and it will be
tougher and le