A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country when they see the streets the roads and cabbin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex followed by three four or six children all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain or sell themselves to the Barbadoes

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country when they see the streets the roads and cabbin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex followed by three four or six children all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain or sell themselves to the Barbadoes

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