Britan saw its colonists as a soucre of

Britain saw its colonists as a source of PROFIT. What colonists are is people that go to other places, claim land, and make their own colonies. This profited Britain because the colonies that are formed in other places have stuff that Britain doesn't have, and the colonies can come back to great Britain and gives them things that profit them. Also, because the colonists got more land, those lands would first belong to Great Britain because the colonists were not independent from Great Britain, and land costs a lot of money, which means that Britain is getting a lot of money from land.

for hobos it was a very hard time most hid on the sides of the railroad tracks causing people to get bulls and get them off sometimes causing in fatal death they couldnt get people to give them money because the   people were also in need of money