Present state of Ireland: with a plan for improving the condition of the people / James Cropper.
- James Cropper
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Present state of Ireland: with a plan for improving the condition of the people / James Cropper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![sold higher in Dublin than in London; and therefore it was, that in order to assimilate their rates, or, as we shall say, to absorb the superfluous or unemployed capital in t Ireland, the minister procured an act of Parliament, to be passed to provide for the transmission of British stock into the Irish market, and we find, that under this law, stock, to the amount of £5,77^,392 IQs *]d, has been transmitted accordingly.1’ t To the above I may add, that British stock still con¬ tinues, to a considerable extent, to be thus transmitted to Ireland, whilst no new debt is creating, but, on the contrary, the Commissioners for the Sinking Fund are daily making purchases; the Irish people are also buyers of stock. Thus is Irish capital continually flowing into England, to increase her commerce and manufactures, whilst far more profitable means of employing it remain neglected at home. It is evident, therefore, that some doubts of the security of property, either invested in land or manufactures, is the cause of this anomaly, which must have arisen from some neglect or mismanagement, and it is, therefore, the duty of Government to find a remedy. Is security to be given by an increased military force ? No; commerce will never flourish under such security. Is it by an improved administration of justice ? I would ask, what is to secure the due administration of justice, while the people are so degraded as to have very little part in the public voice, and where the numbers of the higher classes are so few, that the acts of men in power cannot have the wholesome control of public opinion ? The evil is so deeply seated, it cannot be cured at once, or by any one measure. Employment, educa¬ tion, and the due administration of justice, must go hand in hand, and security will follow.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31909152_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
