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nat urally, as many ignoraiitly imagine, but 

 from the want of proper food, clothing, and 

 household accommodation. Such being the 

 case, the master who pays his servant 205. only 

 receives 15s. worth of labour for it. He 

 sacrifices 5s. to his own want of industry, in 

 not interesting himself in behalf of the house- 

 hold accommodation of his servant. He may, it 

 is true, adopt means to prevent this sacrifice 

 directly, but if he does so, he, in nine cases out 

 often, loses double indirectly. Millions have 

 been annually sacrificed upon this altar by our 

 commercial and manufacturing capitalists, the 

 consequences of which they have deservingly 

 experienced, but which they have unhappily 

 been unable to comprehend ; and hence the 

 reason why they have always so strenuously 

 endeavoured to tax the landed interest with 

 their own misconduct. 



In town, as in country, every master ought 

 to furnish household accommodation for his 

 workman, of a quality, so far as health is con- 

 cerned, at least equal to that of his own. "We 

 would act upon the principle of building new 

 houses for both parties, and when the old ones 

 were unfit to live in, rebuild again. "Where 



