Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Review of the Present Ruined Condition of the Landed and Agricultural Interests
Whoever looks around him at the present moment, and views the distresses in which the country is involved from the inability of a large part of the population to answer the de mands of government -whoever examines the great change which has taken place in the condition of a large part of the community hfirled from wealth to poverty; from affluence to distress whoever enquires into the fact, and finds that taxes are levied from a considerable part of the people by means of legal process; or whoever finds, as the fact is, the poor are increasing daily in number, while the ability of the persons who are by law bound to contribute to their maintenance is diminished - Who ever shall know, as the fact is, that a large part of the community are in want of employment though willing to labor, and that their former employers are unable to afford to pay their wages that even 50 men are to be met in different parishes asking for em ploy ment, and urging it to be the interest of the farmer, rather to pay them for actual labor than to pay them in a state of idleness from the poor rate, while the farmer, though'convinced of the justice of the appeal, is totally unable to meet this appeal to his interest; further, that a large portion of that industrious part of the com munity, the little farmers, (the favorites of the ancient system) with their large families (the best liope of the state, and most virtuous part of the community) are ceasing to be farmers from necessity, and becoming pensioners on the poor rate, while in some townships the persons who formerly contributed to the poor, are appealing for relief on the ground of their own poverty; and numbers of them obliged to abandon the cultivation of their farms, are become bu'rdens on those parts of the parish which alone are cultivated, thus taxing the industry of their neighbours, and hasten ing them to the same extremity of ultimate indigence - must admit there is something wrong in the system, and that necessity, and not the Spirit of complaint and disaffection, imposes the duty of examining into these evils, that they may be understood and fairly met. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.