Excerpt from Social Wreckage: A Review of the Laws of England as They Affect the Poor
The Globe.
There can be no question whatever that this thoughtful volume deals with several serious defects in our social system... That the administration of the law still remains too costly, that witnesses are often subjected to unjustifiable bullying, and that judicial and magisterial decisions frequently seem to be based upon the vicious principle that property is more sacred than the person to whom it belongs, cannot be gainsaid. We ourselves have commented, time after time, on these and other sores in the body politic, and we are glad, therefore, to obtain the co-operation of such a valiant and fearless fighter as Mr. Francis Peek.
Pall Mall Gazette.
No one who takes to heart the lessons of social failure and disorganization to be read daily in the reports of our police-courts and coroners' inquests, can be otherwise than grateful to Mr. Peek for his vigorous little work... It is an admirable summing-up of the share taken by unjust laws and faulty administrations in the manufacture of our criminals and paupers.
The Metropolitan.
We regret that we cannot follow Mr. Peek fully through his valuable work. It is most forcibly and convincingly written, and speaks fairly and honourably of the men who, as Guardians or officers, administer the present cut-and-dried Poor-Laws. He goes into the causes that tend to degrade the lower orders.
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