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The General Assueance Advocate.
THE GENERAL ASSUEANCE ADVOCATE .
30 TH SEPTEMBER , 1848 . NOTICE . Arrangements have been completed for furnishing in our next number reports of the meetings of the various Assurance Companies .
LOCALITY AND EMPLOYMENT .
AT a time when governments—forsaking the beaten track which they have so long pursued , of leaving speculation and enterprise to find their own instruments , and use and work them as they will , and throwing overboard the theories of a certain class of politicians , who say that private affairs , as contra-distinguished from public business , should be left to private control and guidance—have undertaken to interfere
between masters and labourers , employers and employed , and to define the number of hours during which toil may be carried on , and the ages at which it may hegin ; and when , in pursuance of this system of interference with what have hitherto been considered as private rights , rulers have given to us at least the nucleus of a sanitary system , it becomes important to all , and to none more than those who are interested in the
business of Assurance , to endeavour to form true ideas of the influences of locality and employment upon the happiness and the duration of life of the bulk of the people . Abstaining , as we always shall , as far as possible , from expressing opinions upon questions of governmental policy , we do not enter into the question whether governments are right or wrong upon principle for overstepping their former boundaries , and
legislating on the dwellings and labours of the people , we merely point attention to the fact , and its paramount importance , that legislation has a tendency to assume , if not more , at least as much , a social as a political character ; and it is only necessary to refer to the opinion which has sprung up of late years , and which is rapidly gaining ground—that the evils which afflict us as a nation , arise rather from social than political
causes—to prove the probability that that tendency is likely to become much strengthened ; and to bring within the range of legislation , and the duties of statesmen , many objects , the attainment of which is now left to . the philanthropist .
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The General Assueance Advocate.
THE GENERAL ASSUEANCE ADVOCATE .
30 TH SEPTEMBER , 1848 . NOTICE . Arrangements have been completed for furnishing in our next number reports of the meetings of the various Assurance Companies .
LOCALITY AND EMPLOYMENT .
AT a time when governments—forsaking the beaten track which they have so long pursued , of leaving speculation and enterprise to find their own instruments , and use and work them as they will , and throwing overboard the theories of a certain class of politicians , who say that private affairs , as contra-distinguished from public business , should be left to private control and guidance—have undertaken to interfere
between masters and labourers , employers and employed , and to define the number of hours during which toil may be carried on , and the ages at which it may hegin ; and when , in pursuance of this system of interference with what have hitherto been considered as private rights , rulers have given to us at least the nucleus of a sanitary system , it becomes important to all , and to none more than those who are interested in the
business of Assurance , to endeavour to form true ideas of the influences of locality and employment upon the happiness and the duration of life of the bulk of the people . Abstaining , as we always shall , as far as possible , from expressing opinions upon questions of governmental policy , we do not enter into the question whether governments are right or wrong upon principle for overstepping their former boundaries , and
legislating on the dwellings and labours of the people , we merely point attention to the fact , and its paramount importance , that legislation has a tendency to assume , if not more , at least as much , a social as a political character ; and it is only necessary to refer to the opinion which has sprung up of late years , and which is rapidly gaining ground—that the evils which afflict us as a nation , arise rather from social than political
causes—to prove the probability that that tendency is likely to become much strengthened ; and to bring within the range of legislation , and the duties of statesmen , many objects , the attainment of which is now left to . the philanthropist .