Hereditary Peers And Hereditary Paupers the Two Extremes of English Society
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" "• That is, to my mind, the worst feature of the whole case. The misery and destitution, that people do not immediately see, affect them but little. By placing the farmers between themselves and the labourers, the 68 HEREDITARY PEERS AND PAUPERS. owners of great estates avoid the disagreeable incidentals, necessitated by any process of compelling work for starvation wages, and flatter themselves that they thus escape res- ponsibility. ' ' " This ' grinding of the faces of the poor ' by deputy..., " continued Mat, waxing warm, "in order to obtain the luxuries of existence, or minister to an insane thirst for accumula- tion, arouses my indignation more than direct acts of oppression, committed in the struggle for existence, and in the endeavour to obtain its absolute necessities. " " I can see this grinding process working very clearly in the case of your cotton planters ; but are you quite sure that the connection between the luxuries of the English landlords and the extreme poverty of the agricultural labou3:ers is quite as close.
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