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290 EMIGRATION AS A PKEVENTIYE AGENCY.
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cont concerned inuous , - may toil . _Tbe So held also to is be labor reformed the great who prev cheerfull entive y ; submits a princip to le
which has been thoroughly recognised in the economy of our induslation trial schools born in . and There reared has to unhapp crime il , y which grown it up is to among be feared us will a popu find
work for more than one generation of reformatory school-masters Its sicall and strength prison y , as well disci by as p reinforcements linarians morally , , diseased but it from is on population the the non whole - , criminal and a weak is onl class and y kept . a p The hy at
work ment grand . to recruiting The retain young much agent workman benefit for this , generall from reinforcement school y a mere instruction is lad the , want sent is too of very emp earl often loy y to - _,
, _ithrown out of employment when his apprenticeship expires . He " tram" as it is calledinsearch of work ; he comes to some one
ps ,, . rives of our with great are cities spent and . Wandering finds no opening about the . The streets few weary shillings , disp he irited ar- ,
exhausted from insufficient food , and perhaps unable to procure a what lodging he for is the able nig to ht bear , God alone Is not knows the how best far preventive he is tempted against above his
. joining the ranks of crime to be found in the ship ready to carry the workman to where his work awaits him ? and though it * may not
carry him a goodl in the ortion destitute of the condition strength described and enterprise , though of it the may country carry
away y p by whom hundred such it trials does have already relieve been encountered a hundred and such overcome at home * carry may
and every give them room to grow to the stature of manhood . Drunkenness is a well known cause of crimeand that disastrous habit is
generallywhich acquired he by is fain the workman to resort to in some those , stimulant frequent unemp to deaden loyed his intervals anxieties , in
the for the condition present of and the enliven le of his Ireland prospect before for the the Irish future exodus . What which was
it needed famine and peop pestilence to accomplish ? But the judgments , of God are ever mingled with and the people who left those
shores in gloom and anguish mercy went forth , to find that the earth " is full of the goodness of the Lord . _" The Irish emigration only
slackened when the country was relieved , and the condition of its people has continued rapidly and steadily improving . Wages de
have risen and work is steadier , and as a consequence , crime has - creased . Within the last . three years , convictions in Ireland have fallen from seven thousand to four thousand . In Englandtoo
, , emi stream gration has has oured been out at more work calml as extensivel and constantl y as in Ireland and not , thoug with h such the y y _,
p a ' sudden rush , and here , too , convictions have fallen from twentythree thousand to fourteen thousand . The dire lack of employment ,
this has country and told country consequent i s the . htfull The number debasing y on most the of terrible strugg social its female condition le p for hase criminals the in of bare the the . necessaries humbler criminality One third women of of of life the the of ,
290 Emigration As A Pkeventiye Agency.
290 EMIGRATION AS A PKEVENTIYE AGENCY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/2/
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