If the people only understood this matter as I understand it, they would shut hearts and hands against all beggars.

I add beggary as a vice to drinking and policy-buying as the next most active agency in the work of making paupers and criminals." "But there are deserving poor," said Dinneford.

"We cannot shut our hearts against all who seek for help." "The deserving poor," replied Mr.Paulding, "are never common beggars--never those who solicit in the street or importune from house to house.

They try always to help themselves, and ask for aid only when in great extremity.

They rarely force themselves on your attention; they suffer and die often in dumb despair.