The tenant who is kept at starvation point to pay his landlord's rent, has no means of providing for his family.

He cannot encourage trade; his sons cannot get work to do, if they are taught trades.
Emigration or the workhouse is the only resource.

I think the efforts which are made by the poor in Ireland to get work are absolutely unexampled, and it is a cruel thing that a man who is willing to work should not be able to get it.

I know an instance in which a girl belonging to a comparatively respectable family was taken into service, and it was discovered that for years her only food, and the only food of her family, was dry bread, and, as an occasional luxury, weak tea.

So accustomed had she become to this wretched fare, that she actually could not even eat an egg.