Excerpt from Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1840 I beg also to mention a remarkable fact, which fully bears out the argument that, irrespective of demoralization, and its consequent train of well-known evils, the applicants for relief 1n aid of wages are almost sure to be themselves immediate sufferers, in a mere pecuniary sense, by the very gain of their object. The fact I give on the author1ly of one of the principal manufacturers of Carlisle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.