Hints on Emigration, as the Means of Effecting the Repeal of the Poor LawsJ Hatchard, 1828 - 56 pagine |
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Pagina 55 - I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Pagina 56 - I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder, that it has had its effect...
Pagina 55 - There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them ; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities ; so many almshouses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful...
Pagina 56 - I affirm, that there is no country in the world, in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken and insolent. The day you passed that Act, you took away from before their eyes, the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age and sickness.
Pagina 55 - I think the best way of doing good to the poor is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed, in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer ; and, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Pagina 41 - The reports constantly arriving from them contain the most favourable accounts of their welfare, so much so that almost all the labourers of that parish are desirous of going to America. The method adopted by the parish of providing the means of sending the above twenty-seven persons was by borrowing a sum of money from an individual residing in the parish and repaying it out of the rates by installments of 5o£ every half year, until the whole was paid off, which is now the case. 17. Emigration...
Pagina 9 - ... and also for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and using no ordinary or daily trade to get their living by...