In what way does the Victorian Government help small farming businesses financially in regards to the drought?

Answer 1

To answer this question one must first understand the Corn Law -- which was implemented to encourage the farmers to support the (Crimean) war effort by growing more corn. After the war, the law still stood and instantly, there was a surplus of corn and the bottom of that market dropped out.
In Ireland, the staple crop was the potato. A drought took place followed by molding and rot of the potatoes that had been harvested and stored.
"By 1830, regional failures of the potato crop in Ireland had become dangerously frequent, but it was not until1845-1848 that a potato blight ruined almost the entire crop. The disease was caused by a fungus..." (pg 45)
Robert Peel, a conservative Prime Minister (1841-46) promoted financial reform.
"Peel embodied what came to be known as the Victorian "gospel of work."" (pg 43)
Peel thought that all financial barriers to the aflicted farmers should be dropped. "In November 1845 he proposed that the Corn Laws be suspended. In May 1846 he persuaded the House of Commons to end them completely, and with the aid of the duke of Wellington, he obtained the concurrence of the House of Lords. In the process he split his party..." "...Peel's ministry was defeated, and Lord John Russell replaced him as Prime Minister. Peel had sacraficed his party and his career to repeal the Corn Laws..." (pg 45)
Throughtout the course of the famine, the potato being the mainstay of Ireland's diet (and a hardy suppliment to England's), nearly one million people died of starvation and disease.
Peel, pushed to a back seat roll in politics still managed to make his presence known and in 1847 arranged for an emergency shipment of American maize (AKA Indian Corn) to be shipped in, He then got the government to subsidize a system of soup kitchens that fed as many as 3 million people a day.
Lord Russell on the other hand, seemed less interested in aiding the people. He held firmly to the belief that if the people were hungry, it was because the land lords (land owners) and the merchants were not holding up their end of responsibility to aid their tennents and customers. In hindsight/truth, rural Ireland was not well enough established that it's merchants could have implemented any sort of networking to get enough food to the people to save them. Nor was it solely the responsibility of the land owners, most were almost as poor as those to whom they leased their property.

Answer 2

right here interior the U. S., the State of Florida surpassed an substitute to the State shape for in basic terms that reason. as quickly as the electorate observed the quite a few situations on the pig 'factories' they tried to get a regulation interior the direction of the Legislature, however the politicians in Florida are the main corrupt i've got ever considered, and that i'm from Chicago! wealthy farm companies flooded the Florida domicile & Senate with funds, and the regulation in no way have been given out of committee. the sole different decision became the substitute, and that surpassed, returned in ... 2002? '03? something like that. Vox populi, vox dei - The voice of the individuals is the voice of God.

Answer 3

I'm possibly playing devil advocate. But If I had a family business and I was going to the wall, I would not get any help from the Government. So why are we spending millions bailing people out of an industry that is their own choice to stay in.