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United States (United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
Pauperism in the United States. Professor Richard T. Ely, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, now of the University of Wisconsin, conich we do know. First of all is this fact: there exists in the United States an immense mass of pauperism. No one knows either how great thinion that it was safe to estimate the number of persons in the United States receiving out-door relief at an average of 250,000 during the yrganization Society, has estimated that 3,000,000 people in the United States were wholly or partially supported by alms during a recent yeare of 3,000,000 cannot be regarded as an extravagant one for the United States during hard times. We have, then, that number of persons who auperism to this country. The direct pauper expenditures of the United States may be placed at $25,000,000 at least; indeed, this must be an in England and Wales has been placed at 6,000,000, and in the United States at over 1,000,000, and an extremely small percentage is due to
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
United States receiving out-door relief at an average of 250,000 during the year, including at least 600,000 different persons. This same committee, including Messrs. F. B. Sanborn and H. H. Hart, did not regard 110,000 persons as an overestimate of the population of the almshouses of the country. Five States of the Union alone report nearly half that number. These are New York, with 19,500 inmates of almshouses; Pennsylvania, with 13,500; Massachusetts, with 9,000; Ohio, with 8,000; and Illinois, with 5,000. These States, however, do not include much over one-third of the population of the country. Mr. Charles D. Kellogg, the able and devoted secretary of the New York Charity Organization Society, has estimated that 3,000,000 people in the United States were wholly or partially supported by alms during a recent year, and that the support received by this number was equal to the total support of 500,000 paupers during the entire year. This estimate is based upon such facts as he
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
the United States an immense mass of pauperism. No one knows either how great this mass is, or whether it is relatively, or even absolutely, larger than in former times. Several States in the Union, as New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, publish statistics concerning the defective, delinquent, and dependent classes, but many of the States gather no statistics at all, or very inadequate ones. Such statistics as we have cannot well be brought together and compared, because they hans as an overestimate of the population of the almshouses of the country. Five States of the Union alone report nearly half that number. These are New York, with 19,500 inmates of almshouses; Pennsylvania, with 13,500; Massachusetts, with 9,000; Ohio, with 8,000; and Illinois, with 5,000. These States, however, do not include much over one-third of the population of the country. Mr. Charles D. Kellogg, the able and devoted secretary of the New York Charity Organization Society, has estimated
Indianapolis (Indiana, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
pauper. Mrs. Lowell says: These mothers are women who began life as their own children have begun it—inheriting strong passions and weak wills, born and bred in the poorhouse, taught to be wicked before they could speak plain, all the strong evil in their natures strengthened by their surroundings, and the weak good trampled out of life. The third study to which I referred is that made by Mr. Oscar McCulloch, and is called The tribe of Ishmael. Mr. McCulloch, who is a clergyman in Indianapolis, found the poor and degraded in that part of the country closely connected by ties of blood and marriage. This band of paupers and criminals takes its name from one Ben Ishmael, who can be traced as far back as 1790, when he was living in Kentucky. The descendants of this family have intermarried with thirty other families. In the first generation we know the history of 3, in the second of 84, in the third of 283, in the fourth of 640, in the fifth of 679, and in the sixth of 57. We h
Herkimer (New York, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
of charities. The investigation occupied the secretary of this board and various assistants for nearly two years, and the antecedents of every inmate of the poor-houses of the State were examined. Mrs. C. R. Lowell, who has been so active in the charities of New York State, and who has achieved a well-merited reputation, read a report on the results of this investigation. She describes typical women. The description of two cases may be quoted, and they will serve for all. In the Herkimer county poor-house a single woman, aged sixty-four years, twenty of which have been spent in the poor-house: has had six illegitimate children, four of whom have been paupers. In the Montgomery county poor-house a woman twenty years of age, illegitimate, uneducated, and vagrant; has two children in the house, aged, respectively, three years and six months, both illegitimate, and the latter born in the institution; recently married an intemperate, crippled man, formerly a pauper. Mrs. Lowe
Buffalo, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
mber of paupers fell off 2,000. Even England seems to have met with some success in dealing with pauperism, for the paupers comprised 5 3/10 per cent. of the population in 1863, 4 6/10 in 1871, and only 2 per cent. in 1882. The experience of Buffalo, in this country, has been as instructive as it is gratifying. During the first ten years of the existence of the Buffalo Charity Organization Society—namely, from 1877 to 1887—the pauperism of the city decreased, so far as statistics indicaty that society in 1878-79, Mr. Rosenau, the secretary, was able to state that, so far as he knew, 458 families had never been applicants for charity since 1879, and only 81 were met with in 1887. Mr. Rosenau further said that, if the citizens of Buffalo would furnish the society with funds and workers, the close of 1897 would see the city practically free from pauperism, and, he hoped, with very little abject poverty within her limits. Mr. Kellogg, of the New York society, in his fifth annual
London (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
the period of its existence over 11 per cent. of the cases of pauperism were traced by its secretary to intemperance. In London Mr. Charles Booth—not General Booth—attributes from 13 to 14 per cent. of the cases to intemperance. There are others whences as these. But if the testimony of a layman is doubted, we may quote the Rev. Mr. Barnett, rector of St. Jude's, in London, who tells us that the social reformer must go alongside the Christian missionary. The Methodists have generally as muchenomination in these technically religious methods, but the well-known Methodist minister, the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, of London, says: I have had almost as much experience of evangelistic work as any man in this country, and I have never been able tauperism. Very few paupers are members of any trades-union. When in a time of great distress a large fund was raised in London for distribution, in one district 1,000 men applied for help before one mechanic came, and among all the applicants there
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
here exists in the United States an immense mass of pauperism. No one knows either how great this mass is, or whether it is relatively, or even absolutely, larger than in former times. Several States in the Union, as New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, publish statistics concerning the defective, delinquent, and dependent classes, but many of the States gather no statistics at all, or very inadequate ones. Such statistics as we have cannot well be brought together and compared, bnborn and H. H. Hart, did not regard 110,000 persons as an overestimate of the population of the almshouses of the country. Five States of the Union alone report nearly half that number. These are New York, with 19,500 inmates of almshouses; Pennsylvania, with 13,500; Massachusetts, with 9,000; Ohio, with 8,000; and Illinois, with 5,000. These States, however, do not include much over one-third of the population of the country. Mr. Charles D. Kellogg, the able and devoted secretary of the Ne
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
s secretary to intemperance. In London Mr. Charles Booth—not General Booth—attributes from 13 to 14 per cent. of the cases to intemperance. There are others who attribute a much larger percentage of pauperism to intemperance, but nearly if not quite always a minority. Lack of employment, or involuntary idleness, is a more prominent cause of pauperism, and undoubtedly many cases of intemperance may be traced back to a period of involuntary idleness. The number of unemployed in England and Wales has been placed at 6,000,000, and in the United States at over 1,000,000, and an extremely small percentage is due to strikes or lockouts. Childlabor, which has assumed terrible proportions in recent years, and the employment of women must be placed among the causes of poverty, both of them tending to break up the home. Industrial crises are a chief cause of modern pauperism, it having been observed in every modern nation that the number of tramps and paupers increases immensely during a
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): entry pauperism-in-the-united-states
ion that the members of the Tribe of Ishmael are, as a rule, temperate, and total abstainers are found among the worst classes . . . . There are those, undoubtedly, whose pauperism can be traced neither to heredity nor unfavorable environment, but they are comparatively few. Well-broughtup children of morally and physically sound parents seldom become paupers. Perhaps the most careful analysis of the causes of pauperism has been made by Professor Amos G. Warner, of the University of Nebraska. He presents the following analysis of the more immediate or proximate causes of poverty: Analysis of the causes of poverty. Subjective. Characteristics :     1. Undervitalization and indolence.     2. Lubricity.     3. Specific disease.     4. Lack of judgment.     5. Unhealthy appetites. Habits producing and produced by the above:     1. Shiftlessness.     2. Self-abuse and sexual excess.     3. Abuse of stimulants and narcotics.     4.
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