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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎96r] (196/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892
LET LONDON
681
The sooner this is embarked upon the better. In the meantime,
local subsidiary sources must be found by the companies. That is
their business and duty till a pure and permanently unlimited supply
is secured, independent of present negotiations and the ultimate pur
chase and price to be given. That price can be best determined and
reduced to its proper proportions by London deciding, what its
scientists and experts have already agreed upon, that outside the
river Thames and its affluents its future service of water must
come.
On another point Mr. Prothero demands correction. What
patience can be displayed towards one who, in face of over
whelming evidence to the contrary, says, ' the proportion of wealth
to poverty is less in London than most other cities in the world,' or
that ' the number of the deserving and indigent poor is relatively
small,' and other strident callous nonsense of this character. Some
of us have read, not once, but many times, the inventory of London's
poverty, indigence, and social wreckage that Charles Booth in his
book, with loving care and labour, has compiled. Within its covers
are pages of human documents, each of which bears the heavy
thumb-marks that past social neglect, municipal niggardliness, and
corporate irresponsibility have imposed.
Until that book—Poverty's dread account and apologia—is proved
incorrect; until its dispassionate record of misery is obliterated by
the remedial influences of civic agencies—such statements as the
above made by Mr. Prothero do not reflect much credit either to his
head or heart.
Upon questions of rating Mr. Prothero tries to make out there
is not much difference between Moderate and Progressive. It is a
pity this has not been known officially before. Time, and the in
evitable growth of socialism as a political and municipal force, will
perhaps soon decide, and give the public an opportunity of separating
the sheep from the goats. It is, however, significant of the change
that is coming that right in the heart of residential ground land
lordism, the vestry of St. George's, Hanover Square, should play
the part of the worm that turns, and join with other districts in
their desire for equalising the burdens of taxation and taxing the
ground landlord. That in its turn will be secured, and in its turn
give way to cumulative rating, to which the wealthy are irrevocably
doomed.
Increased representation to mere money and unconscious wealth
is a delusion of Mr. Prothero and Mr. Morley's ' dreamer of dreams.'
Upon labour regulations enforced by the Council the Moderates have
apparently been converted since the election by the opposition their
programme, or lack of one, received. Certain it is their political
allies will meet a similar fate, already in store for them, if they have
nothing better than the ' Everlasting No' to offer.

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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