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Excerpt from The Speech of Michael Thomas Sadler, M. P. For Newark, in the House of Commons, on Thursday the Third of June: On Proposing the Establishment of Poor Laws for Ireland, Preparatory to a General Measure in Behalf of the Labouring Classes of England
R'ender their sittings perpetual - we may listen to and put into operation as many projects as we please; or, to exo nerate from their duty private individuals, dip as deeply as we have done into the public purse; but till this measure be adopted, which justice, mercy, and policy itself equally de mand, namely, the establishment of a Poor's Law for Ireland, all these attempts will be in vain the unrelieved poverty will not merely afflict the country in which it is thus deserted, but it will reach this. The condition of the English peasant and artisan, already so much deteriorated, will be still further debased, till at length they will be reduced to the miserable state of those of Ireland; and this once industrious, inde pendent, and prosperous community will be degraded into a populace of paupers. Then, Sir, I fear it will be somewhat too late to deal with a question'which ought to have been settled centuries ago, and which, if you mean to deal with it at all, admits 'of little further delay. The interests of the industrious poor of both islands demand that a legal provi sion should be enacted in behalf of the poor of Ireland, and this is the proposition which I intend submitting to the House on'the present occasion, preliminary to a general measure in favour of the labouring classes of the United Kingdom.
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