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demand — that is, when work is more than usually scarce— 

 Goveniincnt is asked to j^rovide it, and does so. But such 

 relief is only temporary. Since then Government must inter- 

 fere, the only question is, how may it do so most perma- 

 nently and effectually ? And the answer is — by cutting up 

 the evil at the root, and taking measures to prevent people 

 from becoming paupers, rather than by giving them alma 

 when they have become so. 



" A stitch in time," says the old saw, " saves nine ;" and 

 the needle of political economy, judiciously plied, may save 

 many an ugly rent in the garments of the body politic. 



