The correspondence on the above subject has been less productive of practical suggestion (we apologize to our correspondents in sayin, this) than we hoped when it was begun. The demand that foreigners should be employed in place of Chinese in merchants' offices would, one may be very sure, have been met years ago if it had been feasible, for very obvious reasons. One writer to-day suggests that the unemployed should be taken into the Municipal Police, but the length of time that it takes to train a policeman properly in his duties is rather against such an idea. ly the author of the letter signed "Typist" makes a mistake. There is no Muncipal Unemployment Bureau; the! Charity Organization Committee is only municipally appointed in the sense that it was born of a resolution adopted at the last Ratepayers' Meeting.
Its existence, however, may emphasize one fact. An impression is apparent that nobody cares for those who are out of employment. That is a very natural feeling in the bitterness of heart which such a state engenders. But we are convinced that it is a mis taken one. The question of unemployment is already receiving anxious consideration in many quarters, andthe spirit of charity jis not as dead as "8.D." seems to imagine. But it is well to remember that unemployment is not only for the erst-while employee, Too many employers also are beginning to know the meaning of the word.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.