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POOR LAW REFORM.
POOR LAW REFORM. (N o. 6.) THE vast army of the poor has been greatly increased in recent years by altered industrial conditions, and it is to be hoped that the Royal Commission re- cently appointed to inquire into the work- ing of tne Poor Laws will take cognisance oi those altered conditions, as they apply to the workers themselves, their trade union organisations, their friendly socie- ties, and the changes wrought by machinery, motive power, increased rates of remuneration, and the decay and cessa. tion of those personal relations which formerly existed between employers and employed. The skilled workman has successfully demanded higher rates of wages and one unanticipated result as been that as soon as the workman's skill falls below the re- munerative point he is discharged, his employer being fully aware that as the wodkmaii measures everything by the rate 1? employer cannot be guided by philanthropy. In former B7 S OR1' HIS MEN IN THE with personal reservations. Wao-es were paid on the average, and if Some°of the men were worth les!s than the average STERAT;^ERT,WERE WRTH davs th-r. Seldom made- In these NS~KC H3S BEEN FIXED AT SO much per hour, and the only possible de- fence of the employer is to get r?d of the incompetent and they are gft rid of just considerations ^of ^ny ti^d^ ?ei"S°naI seven pence -demands often unrW °r, e,&htpence an hour is soon as it ic t°ra8"reement, and as his wao-e« th u"1 w{letller he can earn char d°"bt is. s^t at rest by dis- 11 r, a taking on one who is MeSuTabIy Worth his wages! -too old f be,en said lateIy about being Tthl Y°r r °-k at forty- Whether forty there lmit We need not discuss, but tion o-" n* 6 n° ^ouht that recent legisla- f„r • compensation to workmen PTr>f,n/UneS ^as made employers very tin<r rvv1n°t en§"age men who are get- alert thanan(LWh° are ^se^e^y ]ess i_r; 1 the young, and less active. thp!L ^a§"es mean high pressure, and in wap-I a^f w^en men claim a uniform an, ..re^use to be paid according to rP hty, there is nothing for it but rllcolf0 ar?e t'le *ess capable, and they are discharged and gradually drift, through 11 nfrri^ their own, into the ranks of the ployed. When a man of this kind j comes before a Board of Guardians he seems in every way fit, and he is asked why he does not obtain employment. The man cannot answer. All he knows is that he is not wanted. The reason is that trade unions will not allfow him to accept less than the regular rate of wages. He z it Sah^,SS i.tbe Per'°d when he is worth Lrlt°Ulh -he may not th^k so, and discharged. We a^ not inp- iG trade union system of fix- whatev^+t, there can be no doubt men out'of SyStem tend* to throw old ao- r when they approach the be. lmit whatever that limit may HAL 'FFF TTHT DASSES of men who E-iven'RFM Y • !E^'SLATION WHICH has 5L compensation for injuries namely ST 0'defrive in hension R\ FRS AME' OR DULL of appre- has to na Umsy* 1116 employer who nas to pay compensation for' injuries is now careful to see that t^T mJune& 1S • AT THE persons he employs are neither mentally nor physi- Y efective, and are not suffering from TES ECTH °F P°WERI °R FMM 5NHerited de- lects. 1 HE man who is forgetful, for in- stance, or careless, is got rid of before he brings about disaster, and he drifts slowly but surely into the ranks of the needy, and sooner or later, if death does not intervene, has to apply for parish re- lief. In these days great industries re- quire skill, alertness, promptitude, deci- sion, punctuality, and sobriety. Take, for instance, employment on railways. A drunken pointsman, or guard, or engine- driver, or signalman, might easily bring I about appalling disaster. This means that men with any defects are got rid of and once they are cast out because of any physical, mental, or moral defect, future employment is almost impossible and they drift into the ranks of the, unemployed. In the old days almost all work was done by hand, but in these days a work- man may have to be entrusted with a machine worth thousands of pounds. The modern workman has far greater respon- sibilities than his predecessors had, but has fewer personal ties. Far too often he himself is almost part of the industrial machinery, and his humanity does not count with his employer any more than his employer's risks and difficulties count with him. All we want to show is that the workman of to-day has sacrificed certain personal relationships for an increased wage rate, and that one of the results is that Boards of Guardians all over the country have to deal with applicants for relief who seem to be quite able to maintain themselves, but who truly say that they cannot obtain work. The proportion of skilled craftsmen who sink into actual pauperism is, however very small indeed. Some of them pass upward into places of trust, others go into business on their own account, the bulk of the remainder either ma'ke provision for themselves or are provided for by their families. Every craft, however, like every family, has its incapables and wastrels who are known to be practically hopeless of self-maintenance. Their downward course is not traced, as a rule, but it is as definite as life itself. The standard of industrial efficiency has been greatly elevated during the past half cen- tury, while human nature has remained very much what it was. One result of this elevation of the standard of indus- trial efficiency is that the lower sort can- not find employment, and hence recent movements for sending them to the land, movements which are not likely to be sue. cessful for reasons we need not discuss in these articles- The real cures for the industrial evils we are dealing with must be provided by the people themselves. All we have to do with these evils at pre- sent is as far as they affect the adminis- tration of the Poor Laws. There can be no doubt that in great industrial centres the wear and tear of life are very severe and the tendency is for a large number of the feebler sort, mentallv, morally, and physically to drift into destitution, not because they are absolutely incapable of self-maintenance, but because they are unfit for the increasing- strain demanded by modern industry. The demands of In dustrial life are greater than the people's power of adaptation. This fact brings about all sorts of problems which the administrators of the Poor Laws fifty years ago were not called upon to face. In the old days there was always some sort of woi k unskilled labour—to which people could be put. In these days it may almost be said that there is no un- skilled labour. However simple a pro- cess may be it now has to be performed with such precision and rapidity that only the carefully trained are equal to it. There is a notion—a foolish and unwar- ranted notion—that the profitable cultiva. tion of land is work that almost any sort of city derelict can do. This foolish notion has a twin notion equally foolish, namely, that the city derelict can and will work on the land apart from the question of success. What those have to do who hope to grapple successfully with national problems of poverty is to realize that one of the things the people do who are work- ing on the land is to leave it on the first opportunity. One way to increase rural prosperity JS to still further reduce the -umber of those who work on the land. Another of the ways to increase rural prosperity is to re-establish industries in the country, to develop villages, and to get rid of isolated dwellings and primitive methods and conditions. (To be continued).
OBJECTIONABLE POLITICAL METHODS
OBJECTIONABLE POLITICAL METHODS WiE have no sympathy whatever with those who refuse to give a fair hearing to their opponents, nor do we think there is the least excuse for methods in politics which would be condemned as disgraceful in commercial or political life. Every- body in this district knows how Lord PENRHYN has been traduced by all sorts- of socialistic .and political opponents. Mr. W. R. BROWN, a Macclesfield coun- cillor, has sent the following letter to a Macclesfield newspaper LORD PENRHYN AND HIS WORKMEN. SIR,—On the 12th ult., I delivered a speech in the iiosley Bciiooh\x)in on var- ious political subjects from which you seleoted tor publication in your issue of t-ill:) ibth ult. that portion or my remarks, in which 1 criticised Colonel LJromley -Davenport for opposing Air. Asquith s motion in the House ot Commons. My attention has been culled to tne tact that it can only be interred from your report that 1 stated as was a system in these Quarries to pay ( by contract, and there were some u parts °f tiie VJuarry more difficult to work than others^ because of H the nature of the strata of slate. « ow, Lord Penrhyn adopted a ^system of favouritism and if a man «S t he was Put on a soft job, u he dicl not, he was put on a hard t( job, no the men agitated to get the work equalised. He (vhat is I) was perfectly fair. (But tiie result was a great strike." I desire to deny that I had any intention or making such a statement and, fur- ther, I am satisfied that such a charge is untrue. I had hoped + T find on inquiry + n j a(* keeri^misreported, but as you still adhere tij tiie accuracy of your re- port, I have no alternative- but to un- reservedly withdraw the allegations so far as I am responsible for them and to ex- press my sincere regret that I have been the cause of their having been published. I will thank you to give to this with- drawal the same publicity as you gave to the original report in the next two issues of your paper. Yours faithfully (Signed) W. H. BROWN. In the Carnarvon Boroughs, there have been some rather rowdy proceedings at meetings, and Mr. R. A. NAYLOR, we be- lieve, has said that he has been threatened with personal violence. It is most undesirable that there should be any reluctance to hear the other side, and any abuse or mis- representation of political opponents is greatly to be regretted. Rumours of disorder having reached Mr. LLOYD- GEORGE, he has written to his election agent the following letter which, we understand, expresses the feelings of all the Liberal leaders in the Carnarvon Boroughs :— THREATS OF VIOLENCE. Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., January 4th. 1906. DEAR ROBERTS,—I see it is stated by the Tory Press to-day that threats of personal violence have been levelled. against the Protectionist candidates for the Carnarvon Boroughs. I decline altogether in the absence of trustworthy evidence to believe that any friend of mine has thus discredited Liberal prin- ciples. I have many a time been the recipient o-f such threats myself, and on three or four occasions almost became a victim of unmistakable attempts to put
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THE RIGHT HON. D. LLOYD GEORGEI
THE RIGHT HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE THE Right Hon. D. LLOYD-GEORGE has at once taken a conspicuous place as a Cabinet Minister. He has already mas- tered detail in a marvellous way and, in a speech at Croydon, he put the Chinese labour question in Africa in a way that has resounded through the civilized world. The people are staggered that agreements have been made by a sort of trick for the admission of 16,000 addi- tional labourers into Africa. IS it not slavery ? This is not the only point he has made. He has laid Mr CHAMBERLAIN flat on his back by figures which prove that since Mr CHAMBERLAIN began his fiscal campaign our foreign exports have reached the highest point ever yet attained in the commercial history of this country. Since the year 1903 there has been an increase of thirty-nine millions, and thirty-five millions of this increase are for manufactured goods. We need not follow the figures. Our case is that Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE has been made the PRESI- DENT of the Board of Trade and in less than a month has the figures of his de- partment at his fingers' ends and is able to deal with them with a graphic force that defies reply. He is going to be an efficient President of the Board of Trade. Already he has made his mark, although a Liberal majority has not yet been re- turned and the House of Commons has not met since his annointment. Our Conservative readers may reason- ably ask why we are anxious about Mr LLOYD-GEORGE if he is so assured of suc- cess ? We will try to answer this reason- able question, which we think is a national rather than a personal one. We believe, as we have said scores of times in these columns, that personal influence depends on what a man is where he is. Quite apart from Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE'S position as member for the Carnarvon Boroughs, a position that we do not think is in any way threatened by the candidature of Mr NAYLOR, we are anxious for the sake of Wales that he should go back to the House of Commons with an increased majority-a greatly increased majority- so that he may easily be able to do for his countrymen what nobody else in the hoary history of the Principality has ever been able to do. We think that the case of Mr LLOYD-GEORGE has been lifted by his promotion to Cabinet rank out of the ordinary rut of Welsh party politics. For- tunately, he is not opposed by a native of tp the Principality, nor is his opponent a Liberal, or even a man of exceptional power. We do not think, however, under the circumstances that Mr NAYLOR can be expected to retire. We do not want him to retire. What we want is that the electors of the Carnarvon Boroughs- Liberal and Conservative-should as far as possible put party politics on one side and vote for Welsh Nationalism and Welsh reforms as embodied by Mr LLOYD- GEORGE. Our most earnest desire is an increased majority at the polls for the Right Hon. D. LLOYD-GEORGE, whose position as an Imperial' leader makes it almost impossible that he should give to his own candidature the time and atten- tion that a less prominent politician could give. There are dangers in the way of that increased majority which we are so an- xious should be given to Mr. LLOYD- GEORGE and we will mention two or three of the principal ones. First, there is rowdyism. Liberals believe in free speech', and notwithstanding the brutal behaviour of the Conservatives of Bir- mingham towards Mr LLOYD-GEORGE, I brutal behaviour upheld by Mr CHAM- BERLAIN and Mr BALFOUR, we trust that there will be no attempt to in- terfere with Mr NAYLOR or his supporters in any way whatever. We have not be- lieved in Mr NAYLOR 'S tactics and we think his opposition to Mr LLOYD-GEORGE is grotesque in its inappropriateness, but he 'is within his right and the Conserva- tives of the boroughs in the main will' stand by him and vote for him. Second, there is danger, owing to the unconscious self consequence of Mr NAYLOR and his Mr 11 CHAMBERLAIN, Mr. BALFOUR and I sort of attitude, that Liberals will feel that they need not exert themselves, and that they will have done all that is necessary when they have laughed at the nonentity who wants to take LLOYD-GEORGE'S place, but is as utterly unable to fill it as half- a-pint of water is unable to fill a two- g-allon jar There is no greater danger in any conflict than to under-estimate the force of an opponent. Mr NAYLOR has done all that it was possible for him to do in order to ingratiate himself with the electors. It would be most unwise to presume that his labours and his lavish expenditure have had no effects. What we want to impress upon every elector is the need for voting in Mr LLOYD- GEORGE'S favour at any cost of trouble and expense. We want the Carnarvon Boroughs to give Mr LLOYD-GEORGE a testimonial- we are not big on testimonials as a rule— .n e s aPe °f a largely increased ma- jori y, to take back With him to the House of Commons and to the Cabinet. e)Want this increased majority, not for e urmhation of the Conservatives of the Carnarvon Boroughs but as evidence W JC United Kingdm will quickly understand that Wales is in earnest in her demands for educational thorough- ness, religious freedom, and financial re- form. Those of our readers who are less than fifty years of age may not be able fully, to sympathise with our eag-er desire to see Mr LLOYD-GEORGE returned by a greater majority than ever before. A generation ago when we were nleading that it was a gross libel on Wales to describe her as poor Vvales, and when she had no c 001 Boards, no Intermediate Schools, no University Colleges, no County Coun. ci s, and scarcely any Liberal Members of • Parliament, what would have beea said to us if we had predicted that a day would come when Criccieth would send to the House of Commons a President of the Board of Trade? In those days whatever Welsh national life there wis found its expression in London. Wales did not count then as it counts to-day, but we believed in Wales then as we be- lieve in her now, and we ask the electors of the Carnarvon Boroughs, without re gard to party, to send Mr LLOYD-GEORGE back to the House of Commons with a majority that will gratify him, that will bring credit to themselves, and that will awaken the admiration of every con- stituency in the United Kingdom. We believe they will do it.