Word: pauper
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...days when the English town criers used to call, "No lazar nor infecte paupers or poor shall come within the town", a delegation of unemployed would never have come within the town gate, let alone seen the king. Then all good English citizens thought the poor man the scum of the earth and would sing, "Rattle his bones over the stones": he's only a pauper whom nobody owns," and think nothing more...
Miss Lee's keen and vigorous paper on Tolstoi's "What Shall We Do Then?" is of vital interest. She shows how Tolstoi unerringly exposes the root of the problem of poverty. Prince and pauper are brothers under their skins. "The social problem is the individual problem, and individual reform is the only means of social regeneration...
...individual and unfeeling economic system, such objectors of a rule are compelled under the duress of starvation to violate their conscience to the extent of earning the essential bread of life. In Germany, where the control of the state is more strict, such objectors might be put in pauper institutions. In the Cannibal Islands, where (they say) the control of the state is less strict, objectors to war might be forced to the alternative of entering either the army or the tribal soup kettle. As it happens, we live in the United States, where men must work to live...
...literacy test would mean a yearly exclusion of some 350,000 immigrants. This exclusion is justified because, after barring criminal and pauper, it amounts to criminal negligence to admit immigrants of the same rank and intelligence as those which produce these evils...
During the seventies and eighties, Dr. Dwight served on several boards of public and pauper institutions of Boston, and from 1899 to 1908 he was a trustee of the Boston Public Library...