Thus under pretext of relieving famine, pauperism was propagated.
Be it remembered that all this time there was no _famine_ in Ireland.
The potato-crop, indeed, had failed as it had failed in Great Britain, France, Germany and other countries at the same period, but the corn crop was fat and abundant.

Each year of the so-called famine, food to maintain double the whole population was raised from the Irish soil.

It was exported to England to feed the English people.

Nobody starved in Germany.

The German governments ordered the ports to be closed to the export of food until the danger had passed.