Our national resources; and how they are wastedSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1871 - Всего страниц: 120 |
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Abstract for 1870 acre Adam Smith amount annual annum arising bad trade beer brewing British Spirits British Wines bushels of malt calico causes cent CHAP chapter Cider clothing cocculus indicus Colonial Spirits commerce cost cotton trade destitution drunkenness emigration employed employment enormous estimate evils expenditure exports facturing fifteen shillings Foreign and Colonial four years ending gallons give given grain destroyed grains of paradise home trade houses income increase industry Inland Revenue intemperance intoxicating drinks intoxicating liquors invention JOHN HEYWOOD labour expended Lancashire land licensed linen loaves loss machinery Manchester manu manual labour manufacture material ment mill nation number of paupers paid Political economists population produce proportion Province of Canterbury public-houses publican quantity question reader reference result sewage spend spent Statistical Abstract stye taxation things tion ture United Kingdom vagrants wages waste wealth week whilst woollen workman yarn yearly
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Стр. 141 - Intoxicating liquors, is to supply a supposed public want without detriment to the public welfare, a legal power of restraining the issue or renewal of licences should be placed in the hands of the persons most deeply interested and affected — namely, the inhabitants themselves — who are entitled to protection from the injurious consequences of the present system...
Стр. 30 - The most frequented fishing-grounds are much more prolific of food than the same extent of the richest land. Once in the year an acre of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn, or two or three cwt.
Стр. 53 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries...
Стр. 54 - But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances; first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed. Whatever be the soil, climate, or extent of territory of any particular nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must, in that particular situation, depend upon those two...
Стр. 55 - This produce, how great soever, can never be infinite, but must have certain limits. According, therefore, as a smaller or greater proportion of it is in any one year employed in maintaining unproductive hands, the more in the one case and the less in the other will remain for the productive, and the next year's produce will be greater or smaller accordingly ; the whole annual produce, if we except the spontaneous productions of the earth, being the effect of productive labour.
Стр. 106 - ... trade ; we may ensure to our artisans, and our industrial population, continued and profitable employment ; we may free our country from the fearful stains of pauperism and crime, which so disfigure it ; we may have a wealthy, contented, virtuous, and happy people ; but if we are ever to secure these inestimable blessings, we must remove the Temptations to Intemperance, which are planted broadcast over the land ; and our legislature must enact such laws as " will make it easy to do right, and...
Стр. 81 - Taking the population of the United Kingdom as given in the Statistical Abstract for 1869, at 30,838,210, it gives for each man, woman, and child in the United Kingdom, for the four years, £14 I2s. id. as spent on drink, and only £l 133.
Стр. 141 - ... most deeply interested and affected, namely, the inhabitants themselves, who are entitled to protection from the injurious consequences of the present system. Such a power would in effect secure to the districts willing to exercise it, the advantages now enjoyed by the numerous parishes in the Province of Canterbury, where, according to reports furnished to your Committee, owing to the influence of the landowner, no sale of intoxicating liquor is licensed.
Стр. 66 - ... labour which adds a value to the subject upon which it is bestowed, and consequently, the value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the whole country, the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. If the prodigality of some was not compensated by the frugality of others, the conduct of every prodigal, by feeding the idle with the bread of the industrious, tends not only to beggar himself, but to impoverish his country.
Стр. 155 - Still, there can be little doubt that the practice of adulterating beer with poisonous matters, such as tobacco and coculus indicus, is more prevalent than might be inferred from the small number of detections made, as the fraud is difficult to discover unless the offender be caught in the act of committing it. Considering, therefore, this circumstance, and the abominable character of the offence,!