A charitable palliative is defensible and useful when the net advantages outweigh the net disadvantages.

This might seem self- evident, but it requires to be stated, because there are not wanting individuals and societies which imagine they have disposed of the claim of charitable remedies by pointing out the evil consequences they entail.

It is evident that circumstances might arise which would compel the wisest and steadiest Government to adopt public relief works as a temporary expedient for meeting exceptional distress.
Sec.9.Restriction of Foreign Emigration .-- Two further proposals for keeping down the supply of low-skilled labour deserve notice, and the more so because they are forcing their way rapidly toward the arena of practical politics.
The first is the question of an Alien law limiting or prohibiting the migration of foreign labourers into England.

The power of the German, Polish, or Russian Jew, accustomed to a lower standard of life, to undersell the English worker in the English labour market, has already been admitted as a cause of "sweating" in several city industries.

The importance of this factor in the problem of poverty is, however, a much disputed point.