284 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK III. 



which public virtue in Catholic countries has al- 

 ways succeeded in accomplishing by persuasion. 

 No Catholic country has ever required to make 

 laws for the relief of poverty, and in all times there 

 have been workmen burdened with families, and 

 unable to maintain them from want of employ- 

 ment, sickness, or premature death. 



SECTION XIX. 



WE propose that there shall be so many asylums in Ire- 

 land for the relief and support of lunatics and idiots, and 

 for the support and instruction of the deaf and dumb and 

 blind poor, so many depots for receiving persons willing 

 to emigrate, and so many penitentiaries for vagrants, as 

 the Poor Law Commissioners shall appoint; that these 

 several establishments shall be national ; and that for 

 maintaining them, and for other purposes hereinafter 

 mentioned, the Commissioners shall be authorized to as- 

 sess a national rate upon the whole of Ireland, and to 

 require the Board of Guardians of each district to raise a 

 proportional share thereof, regard being had to the annual 

 value of the property of each district. 



