FREE QUARTERS AND FREE BREAKFASTS. A correspondent of the Daily News having written advocating the establishment of free shelters for the homeless wanderers in London at night, that respectable journal unburdened its soul, as follows, on the subject:"A free refuge, open at all hours of the night, it may be said would encourage vagrancy. The severe tests of the casual ward alone keep vagrancy down, and without these we might soon have a huge population of vagabonds luxuriating all the year round in free quarters, and free breakfasts at the public expense. We must confess we are somewhat sceptical as to the encouragement to vagrancy involved in the grant of inere shelter from the weather, and a crust of bread. Few who had a chance of living by their earnings would be likely to prefer such wages of idleness to the more generous rewards of toil. Those that would, are, probably, born to vagrancy as others are born to poetry, and are hardly worth taking into account." Nevertheless, oh Daily Newsman, these vagrants are thy brethren, and is it not worth taking into account how they came to be born vagrants? Is it not worth taking into account, also, how we tolerate to-day such a large class of "vagabonds," as you call them, including every member of the royal family, of the aristocracy, and of the moneyed class, who enjoy "free quarters and free breakfasts," at the expense of the workers and wealth-producers, and whose wages of idleness are generous in the 66 extreme ? New Cheap Edition 8d., by Post 11d.; Limp Cloth LAND NATIONALISATION: BEING A COMPARISON OF THE SYSTEM OF LANDLORD AND TENANT with that of OCCUPYING OWNERSHIP In their influence on the Well-being of the People BY ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. Wм. REEVES, 185, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C. CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST SOCIETY. Applications for membership, subscriptions, applica tions for lectures and other communications should be sent to Alfred Howard, Hon. 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