THE NEMESIS OF NEGLECT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 60, 25 October 1911, Page 4

THE NEMESIS OF NEGLECT.

“The lawless, the ignorant, the idle —in a word, the Hooligan—is the Nemesis of neglect,” writes • Canon Barrett in* the “Westminster.” “Society has complacently enjoyed its wealthy while it has permitted dwellings to be occupied which are unfit for human habitation; it has profited by conditions of trade in which youth' is' robbed of its joy, and it has given little care to see that citizens are equipped with sufficient skill to earn a living or sufficient knowledge tc take an intelligent part in government. Tear after year goes by, measures which seem great occupy the time' of Parliament; but the greatness of such measures was dwarfed when it looked as if moli violence might dominate ■the towns and food supplies bo'cut cff by the destruction of the railways. What did it matter about questions of constitution, about the rights of this or that interest when the very foundair.us of society were threatened,, and the I soldiers were silently marching through the night to take up positions, in the cities? While the memory of the meaning of violence is still fresh all parties might resolve to give their first attention to the neglected Hooligan, and so remove the disgner and the danger of calling out soldiers to keep order in labour troubles.”