Closed by Bureau of Health, following investigation and report for Pittsburgh Survey, by James Forbes, mendicancy expert of the New York Charity Organization Society.
The repression of mendicancy and the repression of illegitimate charitable schemes by the bureaus of registration and information and in cases of necessity, the prosecution of imposters.
He states that "mendicancy is forbidden and that giving charity to people who take up begging as their profession is also prohibited".
He further points out in that same Tablet: "The object is to uproot mendicancy altogether.
A man with the reputation of great wealth soon finds himself beleaguered by countless forms of mendicancy and imposture.
We must remember that mendicancy is a very ancient institution in Italy, and that it will die hard, if it ever dies at all.
The mendicancy laws have taken from him his human demand on Man.
The Minorites declared Pope John a heretic because he would not agree that mendicancywas enjoined by Scripture.
The very frequent reference to mendicancy in the Latin writers shows that beggars, and therefore those who relieved beggars, were numerous.
Defoe says that wages in England were higher than anywhere on the Continent, though the amount of mendicancy was enormous.
The great evils produced by the encouragement of mendicancy which has always accompanied the uncontrolled development of Catholicity, have naturally given rise to much discussion and legislation.
He instructed his authorities to draw up proposals for the extirpation of mendicancy in the whole of France.
Writing to his Home Secretary, Cretet, he ordered him to destroy mendicancy within one month, and said: "One should not tarry in this world without leaving behind that which would commend our memory to posterity.
Napoleon desired to destroy mendicancy at one blow.
The constitution of the hospital was then modified, collections in the churches were forbidden, and mendicancy in the streets likewise.
In Paris, formerly, mendicancy was so grave and manifest a plague that it could escape the eyes of no one, and there is not a single Paris historian who has omitted to write upon the subject.
And now we reach the moment when severely punitive laws against mendicancywere about to give way to preventive measures characterised by humanity.
Mendicancy is a profession, and in the exercise of it a good deal of ingenuity, and one might almost say talent, is frequently shown.
Mendicancy is a profession, and it is not exercised only by extending the hand and whining for alms.
Parisian Mendicancy in the Sixteenth Century--The General Hospital--Louis XV.
Some were schooled in duplicity, and under the ermine, or under the privy councillor's robe, carried fierce hearts, benumbed by mendicancy and seared by shame.
But no man knew better than Mr. O'Connell that this was a feigned issue, the real one being the mendicancy of the Association, and the treachery with which it abandoned the national constituencies to Whig officials.
The laxity with which the law againstmendicancy is enforced is notorious, and upon this question also the reports of Poor Law Inspectors contain interesting reading.
It should be pointed out, however, that the latter figures afford no indication whatever as to the frequency of the offence of mendicancy in Berlin.
Complaint was made by the Standing Joint Committee of the Lincolnshire magistrates some time ago that mendicancy had increased 100 per cent.
Mendicancy is bred of ignorance, and in the seventeen and a half millions that make up the population of Spain, more than twelve millions do not read nor write.
Yet the progressive element in Spain is all the more ashamed of the beggars because they are not ashamed of themselves, and a few years may see Madrid swept as clear of mendicancy as is San Sebastian to-day.
Accordingly, domesticity is superior to Brahmacharya, forest life is superior to domesticity, and a life of mendicancy or complete renunciation is superior to a forest life.
When all subjects of a king (are obliged by distress to) live like Brahmanas, by mendicancy, such mendicancy brings destruction upon the king.
We would then have lived by mendicancytill the destruction of this body.
Why dost thou say that abandoning all the good things of the earth, divested of prosperity, and reft of resources, thou wilt lead a life of mendicancy like a vulgar person?
What is said here is that only a person of such forbearance should betake himself to mendicancy or Sannyasa.
He who becomes unable to bear in his hand the yak-tail while practising this vow, should observe the vow ofmendicancy (as stated above) for one whole year.
For a Kshatriya that has, in consequence of the weakness of his treasury and army, become exceedingly humiliated, neither a life of mendicancy nor the profession of a Vaisya or that of a Sudra has been laid down.
A life of mendicancyis not obligatory upon the three orders (viz.
Having left the domestic mode of life, he may adopt the life of mendicancy by begging, what would barely support his life.
Neither thy mendicancy nor my royalty can aid or obstruct our Emancipation.
Benevolent institutions were founded, not only with a view to checking mendicancy and vagabondage, but also to provide homes for unfortunate women, insane persons, and orphans.
The problems arising from true poverty and false mendicancy were, of course, intimately connected with hospital life.
In the Statute of Labourers, drawn up in 1350, an attempt had been made to restrain desultory wandering, idleness, mendicancy and indiscriminate almsgiving.
The town has certain industries, especially the manufacture of silk; one feels an atmosphere of well-being; mendicancy is a rare thing.
All the mendicancy which appears on our streets does not belong to the suffering operatives of Lancashire.
Probably mendicancy was becoming a serious charge, and the legislators of the day thought to reduce it by rendering the recipients of charity as conspicuous as possible.
First, by the desire to have wealth or meat without working for it, and such like mendicancy is unlawful; secondly, by a motive of necessity or usefulness.
Secondly, mendicancy may be considered on the part of that which one gets by begging: and thus a man may be led to beg by a twofold motive.
Such like uncomeliness of mendicancy does not pertain to sin, but it may pertain to humility, as stated above.
In this way mendicancy is lawful to religious no less than to seculars.
The Apostle wishes the gospeler to understand that to accept necessaries from those among whom he labors is not mendicancy but a right.
The unabashed mendicancyof Martial shows the mean straits to which the genuine literary man was reduced.
Another influence, which largely contributes to the existence of the mendicancy that scandalizes the traveller, is the tradition of recent poverty.
Still, when all is said, there is more mendicancy in Ireland than would exist if things were in a healthier state; and where mendicancy is common, pauperism must fluctuate largely.
It cannot, I regret to say, be denied that mendicancy is very common in Ireland; so common as to be little less than a national scandal.
