The publication received some amount of contemporary criticism, predominantly from groups such as the Charity Organization Society who advocated the principles of self-help and limited government intervention in regard to poverty; which fundamentally indicated that the poor were poor of their own accord.
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In the late 19th century, after public relief was drastically cut in an effort to end " pauperism, " private charity organization societies with the motto " not alms but a friend " promoted investigations to curb the " unworthy " poor from seeking multiple handouts and slipping back into dependency.
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The "'United Charities Building "', also known as "'United Charities Building Complex "', at 105 East 22nd Street or 287 Park Avenue South, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, near the border of the Flatiron District, was built in 1893 by John S . Kennedy, a wealthy banker, for the Charity Organization Society.
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In 1893, the AICP was one of a number of charitable organizations to move their headquarters to the United Charities Building on Fourth Avenue ( now Park Avenue South ) and 22nd Street, which was built specifically by banker John S . Kennedy to house the Charity Organization Society and other like-minded organizations, to whom Kennedy turned over ownership of the building.
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The G . J . Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".
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Honorary pallbearers at his funeral included, Stephen Baker, President of the Bank of Manhattan Company; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University; Robert W . De Forest, President of the Charity Organization Society; J . Pierpoint Morgan, George A . Morrison, Former President of the St Andrews Society; Henry L . Smith, John A . Stewart and Frederick Sturges, Vice President of the Presbyterian Hospital.
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In the early 20th century, Mary Richmond of the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) and Jane Addams of the Settlement House Movement engaged in a public dispute over the optimal approach; whether the problem should be tackled with COS'traditional, scientific method that focused on efficiency and prevention, or whether the Settlement House Movement's immersion into the problem, blurring the lines of practitioner and client, was superior.
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Helen Bosanquet, one of the founders of the Charity Organization Society, and wife of Bernard Bosanquet, expressed scepticism about the accuracy of the findings, explaining that Rowntree's poverty line represented " no statistical evidence at all ", being " merely a summary of impressions . " Similarly, Charles Loch, the COS secretary, was particularly scathing, citing the content of the study as " generalizations cloaked in numerical phraseology ".
