Excerpt from Old Age Pensions and Pauperism: An Inquiry as to the Bearing of the Statistics of Pauperism Quoted by the Rt. Hon. J. Chamberlain, M. P. And Others, in Support of a Scheme for National Pensions The returns of pauperism in England and Wales are fro quently quoted as absolute evidence in favour Of some kind of National Pension Scheme. This paper has been written in order to show that the relation between the two has been mis-stated, and that the returns afford no pretext for the proposal. If this be so, the main and most telling argument for it falls to the ground. In support of the proposal, other arguments have also, no doubt, been used. But they are of minor importance, and to them little or no reference is here made. Here it was desired to deal with only one point in the controversy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.