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his speeches are scarcely reported , ) and against the undisguised enmity of so powerful a journal as the ' Times / he can well afford to disregard that enmity , until it ceases of its own accord ; that is , until the ' Times' thinks him of sufficient consequence to be worth courting . It is of excellent example , that he should continue to afford a demonstration of the sufficiency of energy and courage to command success in that House , against the opposition of the press , as well as against every other possible disadvantage .
\ 8 th April . The proposed Reform of the Poor Laws . —It is creditable to Ministers that the measure which Lord Althorp yesterday introduced into the House of Commons , departs so little from the recommendations of the Poor Law Commissioners . Wherever it does deviate from them the change is for the worse ;
nor do we believe that any change would be for the better . The proceedings of that Commission are an example , unique in our history , of sagacity and skill in investigating the innumerable details of a most extensive and complicated subject , and wisdom in devising , for evils which seemed insuperable * , remedies which promise the most unhoped-for success . Lord Althorp ' s statement , as we are informed by persons who
were present , was unusually clear and cogent . Little or no opposition was made in any quarter ; and from the reception which the House gave to the proposition , there is little doubt that it will pass without material alteration . A considerable part ot the press has , however , declared hostility to its leading provisions , and in particular the ' Times ; ' which has more than once touched upon the subject , in a tone calculated to do much mischief , and which has probably had a large share in deterring the Ministry from adopting the recommendations of the Commissioners in their full extent .
The foundation of the Poor Law Report , is the principle upon which all good government , and all justly-constituted society rest ; that no person who is able to work , is entitled to be maintained in idleness ; or to be put into a better condition , at the expense of the public , than those who contrive to support themselves by their unaided exertions . Any infringement of this principle , whether by rich or poor , is not only immoral , but nine-tenths of the immorality in the world are founded on if .
The desire to live upon the labour of others , is at the root ol almost all misgovernment , and of most private dishonesty . The inquiries of the Poor Law Commission have afforded melancholy evidence of the extent to which this desire , and the facilities afforded for gratifying it by the administration of the Poor Laws , an » demoralizing our rural , and a large portion of our town population ; accustoming them to rely for support , not on their own efforts , but on assistance , to be afforded them by the administrators
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860 J Notes on the Newspaper * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/48/
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