We find them in these dreary and desolate cellars and garrets, sick and starving and silent, often dying, and minister to them as best we can.

If the money given daily to idle and vicious beggars could be gathered into a fund and dispensed with a wise Christian charity, it would do a vast amount of good; now it does only evil." "You are doubtless right in this," returned Mr.Dinneford.

"Some one has said that to help the evil is to hurt the good, and I guess his saying is near the truth." "If you help the vicious and the idle," was answered, "you simply encourage vice and idleness, and these never exist without doing a hurt to society.

Withhold aid, and they will be forced to work, and so not only do something for the common good, but be kept out of the evil ways into which idleness always leads.
"So you see, sir, how wrong it is to give alms to the vast crew of beggars that infest our cities, and especially to the children who are sent out daily to beg or steal as opportunity offers.
"But there is another view of the case," continued Mr.Paulding, "that few consider, and which would, I am sure, arouse the people to immediate action if they understood it as I do.

We compare the nation to a great man.