"The evils of poverty are not barren, but procreative, and... the workers in poverty, are in spite of themselves, giving to the world a litter of miserables, whose degeneracy is so stubborn and fixed that reclamation is almost impossible, especially when the only process of reclamation must consist in trying to force the pauper, vagrant, and weakling back into that struggle with poverty which is all of the time defeating stronger and better natures than theirs."
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Robert Hunter in: Richard M. Abrams The Issues of the Populist and Progressive Eras, 1892-1912, University of South Carolina Press, 1970, p. 26
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