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The arguments for the old 'mercantile theory' for 'protection' of industry, for the poor-law, for resisting the introduction of machinery, the fear of 'gluts' and all manner of doctrines about the currency were really exposed by the economists upon the right grounds.
But, if we may trust his Introduction, the amount of work he had done for his poor-law project must have been enormous, for he had read and considered all the laws upon the subject, as well as everything that had been written on it since the days of Elizabeth, yet he speaks nevertheless as one over whose head the sword had all the while been impending:
This explains the view taken by Arthur Young, and generally accepted at the period, that the poor-law meant depopulation. Workhouses had been started in the seventeenth century with the amiable intention of providing the industrious poor with work. Children might be trained to industry and the pauper might be made self-supporting.
He had been chiefly known in England as a sprightly writer of travels, and had had no political experience except such as could be gathered in the discharge of the duties of a poor-law commissioner in Wales. His first official act was an indiscretion.
But the noble Lord at the head of the Government has no policy to propose for Ireland. If he had, he would have told us what it is before now. The poor-law as a means of regenerating Ireland is a delusion. So is the rate in aid. I do not believe in the regenerating power either of the poor-law or of the rate in aid.
Here, as in the poor-law, the insufficiency of the administrative body suggests to contemporaries, not its reform, but its superfluity. The most striking account of some of the natural results is in Colquhoun's Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis. In 1792 he obtained through Dundas an appointment to one of the new police magistracies created by an act of that year.
She will be an old woman by that time, and will have had space enough in the interval to mourn over her rejection of me. I shall be a Minister, not impossibly at some court of the Continent; Atlee, to say the best, an Under-Secretary of State for something, or a Poor-Law or Education Chief.
See Sir G. Nicholls's History of the Poor-law, 1854. A new edition, with life by H. G. Willink, appeared in 1898. History, i. 175. M'Culloch's note to Wealth of Nations, p. 65. M'Culloch in his appendix makes some sensible remarks upon the absence of any properly constituted parochial 'tribunal. Wealth of Nations, bk. i. ch. x. See passage quoted in Eden's History, i. 347. Nicholls , ii. 14.
The majority of the members, while recommending various reforms in the administration of the poor-law, reported decisively against any system of old-age pensions, either in the form of endowment or assisted assurance, as likely to do more harm than good; but a minority, which derived special importance from the presence of Mr.
Labouchere quotes the Poor-Law Enquiry of 1835 and the Devon Commission Change of the Government's views on the Famine Griffith's estimate of the loss by the Blight Extent of Irish pauperism Lord George Bentinck points out the mistakes of the Government The people should have been supplied with food in remote districts He did not agree with the political economy of non-interference Mr.
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