Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1910 — Value of Employment. [ARTICLE]

Value of Employment.

The beginning of all true reformation among the criminal classes depends on the establishment of institutions for ‘their active employment while their criminality is still unripe and their feelings of self-respect, capacities of affection and sense of Justice not altogether quenched. That those who are desirous of employment should always be able to find it will hardly, at the present day, be disputed; but that those who are undeslrous of employment should, <of all persons, be the most strictly compelled to it, the public is hardly yet convinced, and they must be convinced. If the danger of the principal thoroughfares in their capital city, and the multiplication of crimes mon ghastly than ever yet disgraced a nominal civilization are not enough, they will not have to wait long before they receive sterner lessons. For our neglect of the lower orders has reached a point at which it begins to bear its necessary fruit, and every day makes our fields not whiter, but more sable, to harvest.—Ruskin.