Browsing by Author "Haughton, James"
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Co-operation as a means of improving the condition of the working classes
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)I apprehend it will be admitted by all our members that few other subjects than the one which I have chosen are more important in their nature, or more in accordance with the purposes for which our Association was ... -
Education the surest preventive of crime, and the best safeguard of life, property, and social order
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)Our national system in Ireland has been productive of great good. I would extend its advantages by increasing its funds, and by constantly widening its sphere of influence. No limit in these respects should be put to ... -
Free-trade: abolition of customs and excise duties; and a sketch of a simpler and better mode of raising a Revenue
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Among those many useful topics to which I have alluded, the discussion of Free-trade, and its partial adoption by us, and other nations, has been attended with many beneficial results. It is my main object in this paper ... -
Further extension of free trade and direct taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)At the period I refer to, some fourteen hundred articles of commerce were subjected to duties on entering the ports of Great Britain and Ireland. And now that experience, coming to the aid of sound reasoning, has proved ... -
Observations upon a paper on poor relief, by Dr. Dowling of Tipperary
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1862)The essay now read seems to me to contain much suggestive matter to thoughtful men ? much that should make us pause and seriously consider the consequences of introducing into our country a more general system of out-door ... -
On death punishments
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The many public executions which have taken place in these kingdoms, within a short and recent period of time, have forcibly drawn renewed public attention to the subject of capital punishment. To make such principles ... -
On the connexion between intemperance and crime
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)I have for some time past felt desirous to bring before the society some statistics relative to Crime and Intemperance. On sitting down to this task, greater difficulties than I had anticipated presented themselves, ... -
On the necessity for prompt measures for the suppression of intemperance and drunkenness
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1858)It would be highly improper for me to occupy your time at any great length with an expression of my opinions as to the evils arising from these usages, and the intemperance and drunkenness which result from them. My ... -
The social and moral elevation of our working classes
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)I have indicated some means whereby the social and moral elevation of our working classes may be secured to an extent hitherto unknown among us; and I conclude by the expression of my full belief that all our efforts ... -
Some facts which suggest the idea that the desire for alcoholic stimulants is not only transmitted by hereditary descent, but that it is also felt with increasing force from generation to generation, and thus strongly tends to deteriorate the human race
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1858)My object will be attained if I shall have awakened this new idea in any of your minds, so that it may lead to a further and more searching investigation of this important question. For surely it will be considered by ... -
Statistics (with some additions) given in evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on Public Houses
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)The drinking customs of our people destroy an amount of property so enormous, and turn into unproductive channels so large a portion of the earnings of all classes, as to render it a hopeless task to create a wise and ... -
Statistics of Australia
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1854)The material improvement in our Australian colonies, since the discovery of gold in that region of the earth, being, I believe, unexampled in the history of our race, I have thought that a few statistics, drawn from ... -
Statistics of crime
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)On the present occasion I purpose to lay before you some statistics of crime, principally derived from the "Returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police", which appear to have been carefully compiled. To these I shall add ... -
Statistics to illustrate the connexion between ignorance and crime
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)I purpose, on the present occasion, to bring before the Society some facts in relation to education, that I have obtained from a few authentic documents which have come under my notice. From these it will appear that ... -
The use of alcoholic liquors: economically, socially, and morally wrong
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In a former paper which I had the honour to read before this society, I showed the intimate connexion between intemperance and crime. I purpose, on the present occasion, to carry out the object I then had in view, and ...
