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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan

but in all other points he is upon a better. What hold can any other
manufacturer have upon his workmen, equal to what my manufacturer
would have upon his? What other master is there, that can
reduce his workmen, if idle, to a situation next to starving, without
suffering them to go else where? What other master is there, whose
men can never get drunk, unless he chooses they should do so?
and who, so far from being able to raise their wages by combination,
are obliged to take whatever pittance he thinks it most for his
interest to allow? In all other manufactories, those members of a
family who can and will work, must earn enough to maintain,
or at least help maintain, a wife, and to maintain such as are yet
helpless not only themselves, but those who either cannot or will
not work. Each master of a family must earn enough to maintain
such as are yet helpless or at least help to maintain, a wife, and to maintain such as are yet
helpless among his children. My manufacturer's workmen,
however cramped in other respects, have the good or ill fortune to be
freed from this incumbrance: a freedom, the advantage of which
will be no secret to their master, who, seeing he is to have the
honour of their custom in his capacity of shop-keeper, has taken
to get care to get the measure of their earnings to a hair's breadth.
What other manufacturers are there, who reap their profits at the
risk of other people, and who have the purse of the nation to
support them, in case of any blameless misfortune? And to crown
the

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