...the statistics placed before us, the wages of these people have not risen in the last twenty years in due proportion to the rise in prices of their necessaries...of resistance. Far from contracting, it seems to be widening, particularly in the more congested districts. Its sensitiveness or liability to succumb,...

...1898 say : "The wages of these people (day labourers and artisans) have not risen in the last 20 years in due proportion to the rise in prices of their necessaries of life." Sir James Caird and Mr. Sullivan, two of the Famine Commissioners of 1879, observed : "Already their...

...low standard of comfort and abnormally sensitive to inferior harvests and calamities of season.' ' The experience of the recent famine fails to suggest...community has shown any larger command -of resources'; — and about the extent of this class, ' far from contracting, it seems to be gradually widening,...

...calamities of season.' ' The ex1 Report of the Indian Famine Commission, (1898) chaps, iv. .and v. perience of the recent famine fails to suggest that this section...community has shown any larger command of resources'; — and about the extent of this class, ' far from contracting, it seems to be gradually widening,...

...upon a difficult question . . . the wages of these people have not risen in the last twenty years I in due proportion to the rise in prices of their necessaries of I life. The experience of the recent famine fails to suggest that this section of the community has...