There was still more sympathy and no reproach whatever to be bestowed upon the children--perhaps waifs and strays in their earliest days--of parents destitute, very likely deserving, possibly criminal, who had had to leave these poor children to fight their way in life alone. What did these children know or care for the civilisation or the wealth of their native land? _What example, what incentive had they ever had to lead good and honest lives?_ Possibly from the moment of their birth they had never known contentment, what it had been to feel bodily comfort. They were cast into that world, and looked upon it as a cruel and heartless world, with no guidance, no benign influence to guide them in their way, and _thus they were naturally prone to fall into any vicious or criminal habits which would procure them a bare subsistence_. Here is the evidence of a Tory Minister, Sir John Gorst-- I do not think there is any doubt as to the reality of the evil; that is to say, that there are in our civilisation men able and willing to work who can't find work to do.... Work will have to be found for them.... What are usually called relief works may be a palliative for acute temporary distress, but they are no remedy for the unemployed evil in the long-run. Not only so; they tend to aggravate it.... If you can set 100 unemployed men to produce food, they are not taking bread out of other people's mouths. Men so employed would be producing what is now imported from abroad and what they themselves would consume. An unemployed man--_whether he is a duke or a docker_--is living on the community. If you set him to grow food he is enriching the community by what he produces. Therefore, my idea is that the direction in which a remedy for the unemployed evil is to be sought is in the production of food. Here is the evidence of the Tory Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury-- They looked around them and saw a _growing_ mass of _poverty_ and _want of employment_, and of course the one object which every statesman who loved his country should desire to attain, was that there might be the largest amount of profitable employment for the mass of the people. He did not say that he had any patent or certain remedy for _the terrible evils which beset us on all sides_, but he did say that it was time they left off mending the constitution of Parliament, and that they turned all the wisdom and energy Parliament could combine together in order to remedy the _sufferings_ under which so _many_ of their countrymen laboured. Here is the evidence of the Colonial Secretary, the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.--