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Charles Edward Trevelyan, who never visited Ireland
during the crisis but who was, by way of his office at the Treasury in
Whitehall, administrator of government relief to Ireland… was a spiritual
child of William Wilberforce, the evangelical reformer who had campaigned
successfully for the abolition of slavery in Britain and its possessions.
But the secular influences on him came from the political economists
of the day. The impact of a passage from John Stuart Mill such as
the following would have colored his view of the world and of how to deal
with its ills: ‘In cases of actual scarcity,' wrote Mill, ‘governments are often
urged . . . to take measures of some sort for moderating the price of food.'
There remained, however, said Mill, ‘No mode of affecting it [price],
unless by taking possession of all the food and serving it out in rations as
in a besieged town.'In the besieged town of Ireland, the rations were not going to be seized and served out. Adam Smith reinforced the concept: ‘A famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconvenience of a dearth.' Famines were matters in which governments should not try to intervene or attempt to achieve some sort of false justice in food markets. The best hope of salvation was to let the market do its mysterious and beneficent work. So, in the eyes of Trevelyan and his fellow thinkers, the famine resulting from the potato blight was a catastrophe that could not be substantially interfered with. |
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