l effect, they do little good economically, unless the pauperism of those who are shut out, leads indirectly to a readjustment by means of an increased restraint on population.
1 Wealth of Nations, book i, ch. 10.
2 Mr Muggerridge’s Report to the Handloom Weavers Inquiry Commission.
3 See the Statute of Labourers, 25 Edw. III.
4 Four-fifths of the manufacturers of the Canton of Zurich are small farmers, generally proprietors of their farms. The cotton manufacture occupies either wholly or partially 23,000 people, nearly a tenth part of the population; and they consume a greater quantity of cotton per inhabitant than either France or England. See the Statistical Account of Zurich formerly cited, pp. 105, 108, 110.
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