The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy.

  • McCarthy, Callaghan.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    restrictions that private ownership imposes on the flow of services from property within the United Kingdom, we may consider each classification in the light of our every-day knowledge. In this way, we observe how private owners, for their own purposes, suppress the supply of services on all sides—from mines and mining property, by limiting their output of minerals; from farms and farm equipment, by preventing the extension of tillage; from factories, by running below full pressure; from railways and other means of conveyance, by fixing rates that discourage traffic; and from shops, ware- houses, residences, offices, etc., and their contents, by holding them partly or wholly idle or useless. Again, inefficiency of management, under both public and private ownership, diminishes the yield of services from property. Within the United Kingdom, mismanagement of this order often abnormally cuts off supplies from various forms; and, to realize its evil effects, we might, on the lines adopted in the case of private ownership, apply our general knowledge to a reflection on its evil con- sequences amongst the different branches—mining property, farms and farm equipment, factories, machinery, means of conveyance, buildings and their contents, etc. Finally, within the United Kingdom, various agents of destruction are at work; and, the injuries that they inflict on property and its serviceableness are often considerable. Several items, annually injured or destroyed by these agents, are, accordingly, as sources of services, either im- paired or wiped out. The resulting stoppages in
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