In Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park.
A weak democratic government fails to maintain order, and is vilified by nationalists furious at the country's fall from world power to beggary.
In Hamburg (reported the current issue of The World's Health) and in other Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved.
James T. Callender in Washington Post In a widely reprinted rant that damned the sitting president as a British lackey, Callender concluded, "Take your choice between Adams, war and beggary, and Jefferson, peace and competency!"
Edmund Burke in MWC News For as Edmund Burke, a British philosopher and statesman, said of socialism,"A perfect equality will indeed be produced. That is to say equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the petitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate...
Ronald Harwood in The Guardian Harwood agrees that the current climate heralds a return to Grub Street's days of "luxury or beggary".