The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

e feature of II

e Itport of (11

t t:onintitteJ avpotryeti to
enqttire irro tbe A ntloyer Union ;,tfair is the fact,
that What all the m odd ittiatzir;e4l to be a t•ystem
It-merlin': in reol'artiy,uith checks of all imaginable
ts..rts with 110 of ctt or 4,r malpractice in
workin,,, torn out to be no system at all. 'lite

Commissioners, we understood, wei e a trio,— a
ijoard—in. ho,e Proceedings each un ml,er bad a
v:-ice, and npne au indepundent jurisdiction. We
ave been arcustott:
Cot clave, contlibutir

gme them ratting in

conmiun stuck 1116

•ct !al t yi.erfials

to mice adtqua)e rue
firnbs upon a bon ceo
ruining how many 0111
enable a man to break

'fli:ii

d vigor to pauper
deter-

tint of diet

f bread p►er diem would

Bard how roar
in! ject—
throw

I Iwo a tetra

Irive him to knock down a governor or
g►uel in the face of a nur►:e. We have
that a t.ecretary sale daily at the foot .of

iiiitimseti

the BoPtd-toom tattle, reettiding the proceedings,
egniog anthoritatively the tnissivvs despatched to
Eoards of Guay (firms or Governors of Unions. We
ere now awalisried. hovi ever, nom our romantic
(beams. All tI e xressive ttgulatity is a fiction.
11/4 Board is merely i.n usurping the tur.e-
Lions of three. Ait to e indix lanais with Mile-
y not nt action. A Sectelary is a person of so dan-
petotiA a charaeTer that be is not petmitted even to
tie present at the meetings xvliose proetedin .8 he is
*apposed to rerord

()le fabric of the tEret
1-1, use. with their laws like thost
r d Persians. their tinalteralde theta.

tinyit of Sum
pt. the Medes

•coon of the
of Card,.

irinciple of out-

Yet we have ►aid to

y wt II for !his trouh'e

irrtsponsil►l
i►:►ve lacer

Mar y a

Wr knot

t is etim

t ha: ohjt ct hears most

.rceiwy adopted by th
Guvernment of this country. In die tepolt of th
-' is oated that—

til on 1

leleet Commit lef

I, iiirtr

Aid. ver workhruse

1.1. the fel cttently übiisbet

you," Free trade enables 113 fo reduce the cost of
supporting an Ad It from half-a-crown a week to I

eighteen pence. If there is anything, therefore, in
the principle of the new Poor Law, as laid down
above, any reduction in the price of fo.,d must be
followed by a reduction in ►he money price of wages.
They will at prey nt accept this reduced price " in
order to avoid the. Workhouse"; and when Work-
house keep is cheapened the al►ernative offered will
he proportionately reduced. There is no escape from
this conclusion. kis inevitable.

We are not, however, about to dwell upon this
point, as proved by the Select Comtn,ttee's report.
The hearing of the whole document is a theme
from which we cannot afford to wander. It is now

him, from the Assistant Commissioner and Secre-
tary downwards to the pauper, H • holds in his
hands the power of sotronatily dismissing rvery

11 r. Assistant Conl-
in his conduct of the An.lover

Poor Law stan►iar►i of j►astice

lissioner Parker

to throw the shield of office 0 er the delinquencies
of a peccant governor. He allowed the light to find
Its wt,y into the secrets of the workhouse prison,
and was cashieted for his indiscretion. Mr. Day,
Mr. Jenkin Jones, Mr. Mori, and Mr. Cootie were
condemned io a similar f te. They offended not by
sinning against the inflexible system of Somerset
House, but by sinning clumsily. Mott was too
clever ; anti placed a Horne secretary under an
obligation by a timely report, which assisted him in

having done Fo, and Into:2led it, Was no longer
useful. Mr. Day was simply too honest —the worst
possible fault in tin Assistant Poor law Commis-
sioner ; and the Secretary, Mr. Chadwick, was
" dan,erous" for the same reason, aided to the.
fact of h.a being the (ink' man connected with the
cotnmi,sion whose sincerity could not lie called in

gnestlOn.
What is the conclusion to wh'ch we are impelled
by these at disclosures Are we 10 white-
wash the Commismoners, or sirnply to discharge
them

We incline to sat, get rid of the commis-
sion itself. Wipe away the stain which is inflicted
upon the character of a Christian land by the exist-
ence in it of a system confessedly designed to op-
press its unfortunate poor. Let us hear no more
of workhouse ttsts, of lytne•crushing, of dietaries,
even al hough, as the result, we are compelled to
pay fair waues to the woikinq man, or to suhmit to
a trifling increase in our poor rates. We shall never
he enti:led to call otttselves Christian people until
! the whole fabric of iniquity is swept away.