A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun.
- Patrick Colquhoun
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The whole annual produce of the land and labour of England divides itself into five parts, viz. 1. The landlord’s rent and land-tax, 2. The tithes, 3. The parochial rates, A. The labourers’ wages, 5. The profit on the farming stock, or capital employed. It is by the exertion of the labourer, aided by the capital employed, that the profit is derived and the community enriched and supported. It is the la- bourer also that produces the means of paying the parochial rates : at the same time the interest of those who live by labour is as closely connected with the benefit of society as those who live by rent, or profits derived from the capital employed *. The landholder, however, on most occasions, supports the adventitious burdens. In proportion as the parochial rates advance, his rent ultimately diminishes. Nothing can exceed the inequality in this respect in different districts of the king- dom. While upon the whole, in 14,6] 1 pa- rishes and places in England and Wales, the parochial rates do not average more than 2,?. 10d. * In civil society, labour can only be rendered productive to the owner by the force of capital, combined witn skill, en- terprise, and industry on the part of the employer: the obli- gation is therefore mutual, and the laboui hlk people of every nation are comfortable or distressed in proportion to the extent of capital employed in agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. It](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037500_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
