New-York tribune., 1869-06-01
legislative body cannot by non-action or resig-
nation annihilate the law-making power of the
BRITISH POLICY-PAUPERISM

State.
BRITISH POLICY-PA UPERISM
Many of our readers are old enough to re-
member the sangune representations OF Social
Melioration wherewith the overthrow OF the
Corn Laws was commended and hailed Ora
tors, poets, economists, playwrghts, novellsts,
We'd with each other in heralding the glores
of the dawning era of Free Trade whereby the
sources of Brtain's Paupersm were to be dried
up, and the tenants of her alms-houses trans
formed into happy, independent, self-suppOrt-
ing laborers. How have these bright anticipa
tions been realized9 The World says:
BRITISH PAUPERs-They have had another fearfuy
long talk in the British Parliament about the increase OF
paupersm in the realm of Victoria the good but nothing
come out OF discussion in which the problem TO be
solved was What can be done with 100000 people IN
Ireland who either actual paupers or on the very
verge Of pauperisml" The question Is TOO vast to be
conundrum and give up. There seemed to be con
Of opinion in the belief that all the usual patent
remedies for paupersm would be Intellectual TO grappe
with the disease when it had reached this chronic state
and there was an implied II not an expressed; con-
remedy Of enforced expatration. In England ana
Wales, there are, at the present nomsnt rome no Hno
Of the loose and dangerous classes one million on the
verge Of paupersm, dependent part OF their time on
Cnnflty anu another IlllOn duu hd VI "oihAOA ~
laborers who depend upon odd jobs ana GnaheS en0}
ment for livelihood Well might Mr.. Mundela, Whio
Europe did poverty present itself In such appalling forms
in England. He thought that education might 10
something but he reminded that among the pahpeIs
it was rot uncommon to find educated men. lie Lara
more upon the proposition that IL might ne possible
10 reduce the national ehpenuIeo @ DS G t % or e
apply this sum yearly In public WORKS OF SO great an e1
tent 70 furnish employment to every one but Dls
colleagues assured him that tae principle Oh d tn9
pernclOus and would work only evil. Another member
produced statistics to show how pauperm haa
during the last 2 years In lS4 the number OF
paupers 100000 and they cost "a 96OOO IN 1854 tne
number was $4,000 and the expenditure was 1oz52OO;
In 1884, the paupers had risen 10 ol4O ana tne e1pe
dture TO R623O0 and in 1861 there were 100000 pau
pers, and their cost was e69J9OO0 In the last seven
years the population had Increased seven per CENT t
number Of paupers had increased nine per cent; ana
there an increase IN the expenditure OF 80 per cent
Really, looks at these ngures ne IS constrained 10
think that the English Government Is failure ana that
the best thing its subjects can do to sell out TO some
one who can manage things for them.
To the same effect, the London correspOn-
dent of The N. T. Times writes (May 15)
VAGRAYcr AND PAUPERsM.-Both Houses have
also discussed vagrancy and paupersm at length.
Some years ago, AT was estimated that In Lon
don alone there we're VV' PeggnIs m tSs U
aggregate several millions sterling year The paupers,
area Of $1,000 acres number $4,000 and cost 4l9OO
900 a year. But many who get outdoor parish relief
also beg from societies and individuals The real cost OF
the London poor the money expended unearned In yar
GUS ways may count up 70 5lOOOOOO For the Pastnye
years there has been steady increase. Vaga6ondlsm
and uanism have also made steady not only In
London but In the Provinces The Recorder OF Manches
ter charged the Grand Jury the other day, that IN
bety aud general obedience 70 the law Lancashire was
going backward" London paper says:
any wants to see ruanim 10 Is most revons state let them
take oney ST. Jmes Palace At ii o'clock when the baud PLAYS
oonE and hearty youtbUo folio" a the band shooting
and bOnHBg another 10 other capital Of Europe
,aci things be permitted The band these fellows lie about
81 PARK the The benches and round about the
onameu water Where 90 sy come oml Why do they not Nor
PoiesT ~
The careless vers Of aims are impored to hold their
hands. They are told that .
They encouraging lies and Of lars 10 proportion to he
th'esnHy and rpesuy PIECES which th aas broadcast thsy multi
oatgoung Of money there will be equally large body Of vsnng
pundsrs Will react on each other Both will be 90 much ken ava"
from Industrial labor ami profits The aims will be Sdwn from the
f the bong popuauon That which should have set motion the
Ingenuity tt industry o. thousands Will be absorbed Pimpeog
ho get their Ss their supper another their ans
kitchen day and a. another hs uer dy clothes A5d MONEY
om The bssic., pedestrian publ, vho better
r all shsi The tents They become more sqga more de-
number Of mpOrtana Pnupsrs and Of eai gaeomag poor as
ever"
Commemorative insist on being clearly un-
derstood. That Free Trade in BreadstuffS has
not diminished British Pauperism, is an estab-
lshed truth, the Free Traders themselves be-
ing judges That helpless indulgence has in
creased in spite of Free Trade, is also proved
on their authority. On these concessions we
rest, without insisting that the increase Of
Pauperism which has followed the adoption OF
Peels policy was caused by it. But that
this policy has impelled many to convert
tillage into grazing land, and thus reduce the
number who found employment and subsst-
ence as agricultural laborers, is unquestionable.