I cannot help expressing a wish that some arrangement may be made connected with the levying of the poor-rate in Ireland, by which absentee landlords may be made to contribute in something like a fair proportion to the wants of the poor in the district in which they ought to reside.
From a biography, Disraeli expresses a desire for a poor-rate arrangement to ensure absentee landlords contribute to Irish welfare.
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But duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few terrors for a man with a great purpose.
All the economical palliatives and political pretences of long years seemed only to aggravate the suffering and confusion.
In less than a century there had been seventeen coercive acts for Ireland, a circumstance which might make some ponder whether such legislation were as efficacious as it was violent.
The support of an unconstitutional measure may be expedient, but it cannot be denied that it is the most indubitable evidence of confidence.
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