CALLOUS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE POOR
Scrooge expressed a callous attitude toward the poor, suggesting that those who would rather die than go to the workhouses should do so to decrease the surplus population.
SCROOGE
'Many can't go there; and many would rather die.' 'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides--excuse me--I don't know that.'