The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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R50 LAISSEZ FAIRE wt 280. The policy of non-interference has never been The applied consistently to Ireland. From her geographical pants position she necessarily stood in close relations to England, principles . 3 of laissez and it was not deemed possible for the predominant partner es to let her go her own way either economically or politically. The case of the transoceanic Colonies was altogether different; abundant reason could be alleged, which commended itself to the statesmen of the early part of the nineteenth century, for letting them severely alone. The opinion was freely mooted that the founding of colonies had been in itself a mistake, since the country got little or nothing out of them, either in the way of wealth or prestige, and was only burdened with cost in administering and protecting them. Sir John Sinclair's utterances are so far typical of educated opinion on the public questions of the day that it is worth while to quote the views he has put on record. He pointed out that the i pg North American Colonies had cost us £40,000,000, and the belief that wars in which we had been involved in consequence of were an possessing them amounted to £240,000,000 more. “It is the iy ens 4 more necessary,” he adds, “to bring forward inquiries into country» this branch of our expenditure, as the rage for colonisation has not yet been driven from the councils of this country. We have fortunately lost New England, but a New Wales has since started up. How many millions it may cost may be the subject of the calculations of succeeding financiers, unless by the exertions of some able statesman that source of future waste and extravagance is prevented.” The men in this period who considered not only British and that _ interests in the colonies, but British responsibilities as well, hey tpould had little opportunity of giving effect to their views? The ii Colonial department maintained the traditions of bureaucratic administration, as it had been carried on in the eighteenth century’, There was no intelligent discussion in Parliament \ History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire (1790), 11. 87. 2 Cunningham, Wisdom of the Wise, 43. 2 Mr Buller’s scathing description of the system is all the more severe, ag he was careful to avoid any attack upon individuals personally. * Thus, from the general indifference of Parliament on colonial questions, it exercises, in fact, hardly the slightest efficient control over the administration or the making of laws for the colonies. In nine cases out of ten it merely registers the edicts of

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