But it isn""t, sir.Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms.He delicately removed each of the gloves, lit his cigarette butt, and then decided to not pocket his gloves, but toss them into a trash can.The Tramp entered the scene and descended down steps to the water, to continue mooning over (and smelling) he flower the Blind Girl had sold to him.] The restless couple""s robberies of banks, viewed somewhat sympathetically by the rural dispossessed, occurred at a time when he institutions were ""robbing"" and ruining indebted, Dust Bowl farmers.