| Disgrifiad | The author deprecates the all-too prevalent tendancy to blame the Government for "all our distresses", and to assume that these can be remedied by legislative action alone. Instead of populat expositions of public grievances, what is needed is a practical demonstration of communal effort and co-operation - the extension of a helping hand by the more provident farmers to their less fortunate brethren. In Anglesey, he strongly advocates the establishment of a "House of Industry" which would afford employment suited to the capacity, age and bodily strength of the paupers who could not obtain work elsewhere, and a safe and comfortable asylum for Old Age. At the same time, it should be the immediate concern of every individual to assist in finding productive work for the poor; could not the women and girls be put to knit and spin, and the men be employed on public works of various kinds ? "Nothing", he concludes "seems to be wanting to render Anglesey the abode of Industry and Plenty, Peace and Contentment, but energy and common feeling to apply (its) enviable resources to the still more enviable end". |