Whether the State or private organizations undertake the work, our colonizing process must begin at home.

The necessity of dealing directly with our weak surplus population of low-skilled workers is gaining more clear recognition every year, as the reluctance to interfere with the supposed freedom of the subject even where the subject is "unfree" is giving way before the urgency of the situation.
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Mr.Charles Booth's "Drainage Scheme."-- The terrible examples our history presents to us of the effects of unwise poor law administration, rightly enjoin the strictest caution in contemplating new experiments.
But the growing recognition of the duty of the State to protect its members who are unable to protect themselves, and to secure fair opportunities of self-support and self-improvement, as well as the danger of handing over their protection to the conflicting claims of private and often misguided philanthropy, is rapidly gaining ground against the advocates of _laissez faire_.

It is beginning to be felt that the State cannot afford to allow the right of private social experiment on the part of charitable organizations.

The relief of destitution has for centuries been recognized as the proper business of the State.