Beyond. question British pauperism has been greatly promoted by the pinching conditions of. free trade. which leave to their workingmen no annual surplus to deposit in savings bank. and bars them forever from the ownership of any homes. but with the dreadful certainty that their children will be left in desttution. The paupers of. the United States in 1890 numbered 66.578 white. and 6.467 colored. Of the white 27.646 were foreign. born. of 10.608 one or both of the parents were foreign born. and there were- also 24.220 outdoor paupers. Thus British pauperism. notwithstanding our neatrly twice the population. is ninetimes greater than that of the United Stites. This is our modest contrast with. the chronic pauperism of GreLttBritain.. which. has been graphically described by a member of Mr.
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