It has been found to be useless in stemming the tide of pauperism and degradation which pours in upon us from abroad.
How many families might be rescued from pauperism by saving the lives of their heads, and by helping the hard-working to more speedy convalescence!
But in my opinion the substitution of skilled for unskilled attendance would be of great advantage to the sick, and would of course tend to diminish that part of the pauperism which results from sickness.
One can scarcely refrain from wondering whether grave questions of pauperism and shiftlessness ever enter into the discussion of "the social problem" in the bird community.
Proportion of foreign to English pauperism in London.
But that a very serious addition was in this way made to the pauperism within English workhouses does not appear to be true.
The evidence furnished by statistics of pauperism is not less significant.
The effect of popular election is not limited to the discharge of those duties connected with pauperism and sanitation that are the primary concern of the District bodies.
The relief of pauperism however, forms a first and special care of this body, the members of which are also the Guardians of the Poor.
In 1882 the proportion of pauperism was only five.
It is true that, by such a measure as this, pauperism could not be removed, but it would be materially checked, for the fair proportion of the burden would thus be thrown on the shoulders of those who occasioned it.
If Free Trade is to go on, pauperism must continue like a Upas tree to spread and overshadow the land.
Why, it is the want of occupation in the country just now which is doing the whole of the mischief, and which is creating that mass of pauperism which we all deplore.
Day after day he takes up the hopeless task, while nearer and nearer yawns the slough of pauperism where four million human beings who were once self-respecting workmen like himself, now crawl in lethargic content.
It is one of her glories that her enemies accuse her of fostering pauperism by too lavish charity.
How rapidly conjugal prudence might lift a nation out of pauperism was seen in France.
Nothing will permanently offset pauperism while the present reckless increase of population continues.
Many of the agencies for lessening pauperism are afraid of tracing back its growth to the frequency of births under wretched conditions.
The pauperism which arises from marriage is the result of the worst elements of character legalized.
Whatever may be said to the contrary, having travelled throughout the length and breadth of the land with eyes open, and having mixed with millions, there can be no doubt that pauperism is growing.
Given sufficient steady and trained workers, I would undertake to drive pauperism out of India during this year.
I prophesy that whatever happens to the other parts of the national programme, Swadeshi in its present shape will bide for ever and must if India's pauperism is to be banished.
If they have spinning to add to their slender resources, they can fight successfully against pauperism and famine.
Nothing but hand-spinning can banish pauperismfrom the land.
Just as we cannot live without breathing and without eating, so is it impossible for us to attain economic independence and banish pauperism from this ancient land without reviving home-spinning.
Many of you my countrymen, can look back on the frightful abyss of pauperism and starvation which you have escaped, and should lift up your hearts in gratitude to God for his mercies vouchsafed to you.
Boys for either plough or house work are scarce, but the entire absence of pauperism more than amply compensates for these privations.
We are relieved entirely from the dreadful state of pauperism witnessed before I left England.
Even in Constantinople, at the time of its foundation, large distributions of bread were made at the expense of Egypt, although there could scarcely be any real pauperism in that new and flourishing city.
They entirely forget, that the first promulgation of the Gospel was made at a time when the worst kind of pauperism prevailed; and that even the Master Himself, and the greater number of His Apostles belonged to the lowest stratum of society.
Where there is accord between charity and the poor-law pauperism may be largely reduced.
This shows that these charities often foster pauperism instead of preventing it.
After the Poor-Law Act of 1601 the history of the voluntary parochial charities in a town parish is marked by their decreasing amount and utility, as poor-law relief and pauperism increased.
The exaggeration of feeling at a time of apprehended or actual distress is sometimes extraordinary, and the unwise action which it prompts is often a cause of continuing pauperism afterwards.
The Poor-law Amendment Act was passed in 1834, and since then male able-bodied pauperism has dwindled to a minimum.
It was never intended that the poor-law should extinguish the endowed charities, still less, as statistics now prove, that where endowments abound the rate of pauperism should be considerably above the average of the rest of the country.
With pauperism came want of energy, idleness and a disregard for chastity and the obligations of marriage.
On the whole population of the United States, however, and of individual states, consisting to a great extent of comparatively young and energetic immigrants, the pauperism is insignificant.
Usually the overseers give out-door relief, and the pauperism of some areas is as high as that in some English unions, 3, 4 and 5%.
In these circumstances the standard of well-being falls below the standard of wage; the wage is in excess of the energy and intelligence necessary to its economic use, and in these cases ultimately pauperism often ensues.
Upon that population the statistics of a day census would show a pauperism not of 2.
In the midst of trials, reports, and modifications, pauperism increases, and the workingman languishes and dies.
The modern economists--thinking that pauperismis caused by the excess of population, exclusively--have devoted themselves to devising checks.
Drunkenness became the rule, and pauperism and crime prevailed in startling proportions, outrunning the range of either charity or police to control them.
Exhaustion of the soil was the cause of the pauperism of the fourteenth century, as it was also of the enclosure and conversion to pasture of arable land in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The unemployment and pauperism caused by the enclosure of the open fields are notorious, and it is to these features of the enclosure movement that we owe the mass of literature on the subject.
But what must the state of a country be where those who are on the way to pauperism themselves are exclusively burdened with the support of the vagrant poor?
Two circumstances, connected with pauperism in Ireland, are worthy of notice.
Upon the middle and lower classes, therefore, comes directly the heavy burden of supporting the great mass of pauperism that presses upon Ireland.
We have said above, that the requirement of the declaration of pauperism is ineffectual in guarding the interests of the rate-payer against the cost of improper applicants.
The pauperism and extreme degradation of the drunkard's family is mainly chargeable to the laws, which wreck the energies, by merging the means of the wife and mother in the will of the irresponsible husband and father.
In speaking for woman, I must be heard from a domestic level of legal pauperism disenchanted of all political prestige.
This family was traced by Dugdale for seven generations, and during that time it contributed to the welfare of the State an unparalleled history of pauperism and crime.
It would be very desirable to bring about a state of things in which no honest and provident man need ever fall into want; and, in that state, pauperism would be rightly discreditable as an indication of bad qualities.
If it were right to consider pauperism as a gulf of fixed dimensions, we might hope to fill it by simply taking a sufficient quantity of wealth from the richer classes.
The main fact which gave importance to Malthus's writings was the rapid and enormous increase of pauperism during the first quarter of this century.
In such cases, then, pauperism is a proof of bad qualities; and the fact, like all other facts, must be recognised.
The case referred to furnished an apt illustration of how thoroughly corrupting pauperism is in such a setting.
The truth is that pauperismgrows in the tenements as naturally as weeds in a garden lot.
Tenement-house reform holds the key to the problem of pauperism in the city.
The true line to be drawn between pauperism and honest poverty is the clothes-line.
The extreme opposite of this, when the middle class disappears and the whole nation falls into a few over-rich men and numberless proletarians, we call the oligarchy of money, with pauperism as the reverse of the medal.
On the other hand, no favorable results as to their influence on pauperism can be shown statistically from the restrictive laws of Wuerttemberg.
Footnote 174-2: The classic lands of low wages and pauperism are especially the East Indies and China.
Wong Chin Foo may boast of the superiority of heathenism as long as pauperism shows itself to be a vast ulcer, as in the following despatch from London: "Pauperism is on the increase in the metropolis.
The pauperismand crimes of this land grow out of this vice, as an overflowing fountain.
Therefore is it that the English Old Age Pension Act does not solve its own problem, for the infirm or sick must still be sheltered in some refuge which should have no workhouse taint of pauperism attached to it.
