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liSfi ^ ave a wife and three children support , for the families of f r * £ fowd will certainly average that numbdt . This amou&fc divided fjfyr ^ fivfc , will give less than a penny per day for each person . Thus , -men ,- ' -the agricultural people of Irelana now live on less than a
jfeAiy per day , and yet , in the face of this fact derived from the it&pcJrt , have the Commissioners estimated that the support of each person would cost twopence halfpqjjny per day in a workhouse , where , from supporting numbers together , of course , they could be supported at a smaller expense . And upon such data they have hoped to succeed in leading the public to believe that ii wbuld cost 5 , 000 , 000 / . a year to introduce the English Poor-& 5 tf jsystem into Ireland .
ii Tflie writer in the London Review observes : —• v « ^ The wages of the whole number appears , by their own Report , ( p . 6 ) , to amount to but 6 , 800 , 000 / . for the whole year ; and the pMiotenance in the workhouse of somewhat less than one-third of the whoje number for thirty weeks , would amount to more than 5 , 000 , 000 * . !!"— ( Report , p . 3 . )
"/ The things here called facts are probably as little worthy of credkifce as the conclusions which have been drawn from them ; but eaaBffh has been shown for our purpose . ; # * Now , suppose that all the Commissioners were correct ; that so latgB & proportion of the people as they affirm were maintained by mendicancy . If this were the case , it would make not against , but in tet&mr o { > a system of poor laws .
iiv * As alr _ eady remarked , all the persons who now beg are already inaifitained by the landlords /' , ¦• T ? h $ Commissioners propose certain things to be done for the iq $ gfovement of Ireland . To superintend the doing" of which tl | ejppropose the creation of no less than five Boards . Truly , Ire-Jan 4 * $ the land of jobs !
kn £ Oomnussioners have very little else to urge agaiust poorlaws ^ and we now tak e leav e of the Report , considering we have amply fulfilled our purpose—that of showing the very small d egree of consideration it merited . . / jTUe reasons of those who signed the Keport are verbose in the extreme , and . repeat the same propositions in several shapes . laeifuwi is refused a poor-law ; and , in effect , it is said this is done , on the one hand , to avoid the evils of the English system ; and it
W proposed to administer voluntary funds in a systematic manner , to avoid Uie evils of the Irish voluntary system , on the other hand . Xk Js ; &l ¥ S proposed to arrive at the happy medium which the Commissioners state exists in Scotland . At the same time , their mtytt evidence showa that they know little or nothing about the Scotch syste , m . The dissenters From the Report have cpfpp ' fe&ed their reasons into about one-third of the space occupied by those who had
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to 312 Poor £ m * h jbr Ireland .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/52/
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