Arizona republican., 1908-03-21
A PROPOSED PLAN
 FOR IHE UNEMPLOYED
Proposal That States or National Gov ernment Shall Carry Labor to the Land.

New York. March l9.-(Special cor respondence of The Republican) - New York. for a number of reasons, always feels any recession in the tide of prosperity more keenIy than most other cities of the country. If il is rhe Mecca of those who seek great wealth or the pleasures which wealth can buy, it is equally so for thousands of those who are cast adrift by the closing down of industrial plants in other parts of the country.
 A few days ago, as prosperous lawyer stood on a Broadway corner. waiting for the car which would take him down town to his business, he was approached by a clean-cut well dress ed young fellow who carried a sample case in his hand and touched" him for car fare to reach destination in Ihe same direction. The lawyer yield ed 10 the extent of a dime, and on the WAY down town he learned that his companion, up to last fall, had been q travelling salesman for western con- cern for which he did a good business and from which he drew a good sal ary His position was lost in the crash and with the courage of youth and eighty dollars in hls pocket, he started for the metropolis in search of another engagement. Dollar by dollar his money vanished. Then his watch was paWned, his handsome sole-leath- CT sample case was exchanged for a cheap imitation affair, and the few dollars thus obtained went 10 main tain the necessary appearance of re- Spectability. There was no further sacrifice he could make and maintain the necessary appearance of respecta- bility, so he was reduced to the eX- 1remity of begging carfare on the chance of it's putting him in touch with employment.
 Not only was the young fellow gentleman enough to pay both carfares from the dime I had given him. said the lawyer in relating the incident, but he showed me letters and other papers which were convincing proof at least of what he had been. That young mans case is typical of thousands in New York at present"
 It is, however, the more numerous class of unskilled workers, less provi- dent. perhaps, but certainly separated by an even narrower margin from the
  chief source of anxiety to public Offic- ials and charity organizations in times like these and constitute the great mass of the unemployed. From Pitts burg, during the past few months, there has been an exodus of 47,O00 me chanics and laboring people, and all the great industrial cities have seen q. similar exodus. Many have been immigrants returning to European countries to tide over in a more econ omicaI way than it would be possible to do here the interval before return ing prosperity creates renewed de- Inand for their services in their ac- customed fields of labor. Many, how ever, have come hoping to find em- ployment in some of the great public improvements now projected or under way. and finding only disappointment, have become recipients of charity or have sought refuge in some one of the numerous colonies" which, for lack of useful employment foster and breed crime in the body polite Every city in the union has contributed its quota. The criminally inclined and the pro- fesSional fomenter of social unrest have been among the first to arrive and an outbreak of crime has followed, many of which might be directly traced to a congestion of population far be- yond the needs of business at the pres ent time