Continuing his comparison, Lord George Hamilton dealt with the mischievous
results of the minority proposals, including the enormous expense of establishing a ubiquitous bureaucracy for the administering of gratuitous relief. This new crusade would not curtail pauperism and dependence, but " the unseen activities of self-reliance, providence, mutual help, and co-operation." He accordingly moved that while the present Poor Law system urgently called for reform, " a single administration for public assistance was on all grounds better than a divided administration by Departments as proposed by the Minority Report; and that any measures of reform should aim at encouraging independ- ence and mutual aid rather than wholesale dependence on the State as advocated in that Report." The motion was supported by Mr. C. S. Loch, and unanimously adopted.
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