The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-09-12
The aaae'
Man
States RESPONSE
bility Toward the
Unemployed Man
BY CHARLES F. GETTEMY,
Chief of the bureau of Statistics of Labor.

vvv hEiER organized society is morally responsible for the
NV maintenance of the unemployed depends merely
lar one is willing to setting up responsibilities
~ the state, but whether the state SUCH should be called
~ upon to perform any purely ethical functions is
E p1 indeed often difficult these dincreniate between
purely moral and economic responsibilities and it will gen.
orally conceded that the progress of the
49, pete administration of social justice by
rapd with which statutory laws are brought
up to level with ethical The state in many instances has already
long since assumed the rponsband whether primarily
nomic or consciously ethical motives relatively mmaaof caring
for dependent either support or
@ care Tor themselves such the halt the blind the insane and the
hopessy puped and England proposes follow continental
Europe in pensioning the dependent aged.
But the classes mentioned others that might be named be-
long only division of the great body the unemployed namely
unempoyabe-tha is those unable sufficient amount
of work support themselves because productive power
and also those whom society purpoey e and
protection The other two divisions unemployed according the
classification of Prof Chapman of Manchester empoyae
wiling to work. and the empoyac prefer oang
imagine would be seriously conendcd quarter that the state
under obligations moral otherwise latter
as maintenance be incidentally necessary they become such
menace to the safety of society require locking up question is
therefore, reduced to the proposition whether
bound maintain that portion of the unemployed willing
anxious work. but wo the question find under
the present organization of industrial society,"
The claim sometimes made that there irreduce minimum of
empOyabe unemployed If this be and could
sraed that this minimum steadily rising admit that
the time would when the state might be compelled from
sefpreservaOn if not from consciously purpose graphic with
the problem does not follow however, may be always
at any given time certain number of empoyae unemployed
same individuals remain for long period absolutely hopeless search
for the bare Of subsistence.
Much can be said relative the expen the states adopting
measures Tor mitigating the distress of actual unemployment lending
its good offices free of charge bringing employer search of help
and the able and willing unemployed together my own opinion
that legitimate for the government attempt the maintenance
of the unemployed such that say justified in en-
barking upon great undertakings extending its functions when
would not otherwise feel justified doing solely the sake of per-
manenty furnishing opportunity for employment at
time out of work Such arrangement would it seems to
be artificial and illogical from the purely humanitarian and the
moral points of view is inconsistent with
the of he
that the individual n man cases
most emphaticaly does have moral nv III. Gt7f-
responsibilities where the state, W.T. ~eN' S~N%p'1H
such, has whatever.