Poverty, Its Cause and Cure

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Excerpt from Poverty, Its Cause and Cure: Pointing Out the Means by Which the Working Classes May Raise Themselves From Their Present State of Low Wages and Ceaseless Toil to One of Comfort, Dignity, and Independence, and Which Is Also Capable of Entirely RemovingThe life of our working classes is worse than that of most of the beasts of burden. They toil unremittingly, at a laborious monotonous, and in many cases a deadly occupation without. Hope of advancement, or personal interest in the work they are engaged in. At night their jaded frames are too tired to permit their enjoyment of the few leisure hours, and the morn awakens them to the same drearyday of ceaseless toil. Even the seventh day, their only holiday, brings them, in this country, little gaiety, little recreation Thus have the poor to toil on, as long as their strength permits: At last some organ gives way, the stom ach, the eyes, or the brain and the unfortunate sufferer is thrown out of work, and sent to the hospital, while his wife and family are reduced to the brink of starvation. Often the man rendered desperate by his hopeless position, plunges into drink, and gives himself over to ruin. At other times, the working classes, in a frenzy of rage at their infernal circumstances, determine that they will have higher wages or perish. Hence result the disastrous strikes and the terrible social revolutions that have in recent times so often convulsed society. But they are in vain they are but the blind efforts of men to do something or die, the fruitless heavings of a man in a nightmare. The mountain of misery invariably falls back upon'their breast, with only increased pressure and forces them, worn out by impotent struggles, to bear it quietly for another little season.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.