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A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal (for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.) by D r. Jonathan Swift. 1729 1 A Modest Proposal It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin- doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihoo