The dates of the Patent Utbce will show
that most inventions of value have been
made since the inauguration of the ten
hour system, aud now the machinery of
the country is equal to tbe lalMtr of
twenty-eight million men. Hitherto
ten hours' labor has been necessary for
tbe wants of civilization, because of the
altseni-e of machine labor, and the pres
ence of so many nieu living by their
wits, and at the expense of the industry
of the country. Now we havemachinery
by which men are enabled to do ten
times the work that was or could be
done by our fathers, fifty years ago,
and some inventions do not fall short
of doing one hundred times the amount
of work that was then accomplished.
