One of the first premises of Orwell's essay is that language and thought are connected. He writes that an "effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely" (Orwell 317)
The poor are not just people - they are a serious problem from which the country be ridded. They are "beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms" (Swift Modest Proposal 518)