128 EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN 



It would be to the advantage of the men to 

 do a great deal more than merely to work hard 

 and well ; for that would increase profits only in 

 a simple ratio. They would desire to increase 

 profit at a faster ratio than that, and so magnify 

 their stake in a growing business. Therefore 

 they would find it to their advantage to keep 

 their best thoughts on their work, in the hope 

 of discovering or inventing methods of improving 

 the tools or machines used by them, and thus 

 materially cheapening or expediting the manu- 

 facturing processes of their own particular mill 

 or yard. 



Such a result might perhaps be also obtained 

 by a system of rewards. Here it would be 

 obtained automatically, and would cost nothing 

 in rewards ; for the inventors would obtain a 

 reward far higher than any employer could offer. 



Nothing is more important than the way in 

 which workmen use their leisure. Numbers of 

 workmen now do not exactly use it. The men 

 who hoped to invent would have ever before 

 them an object inducing them to read, to study, 

 to reflect ; and this would make far better men 

 of them ; it would improve the whole stock of 

 men, and still more their children and their 

 grandchildren. 



If these supposed results are not overdrawn, 

 the employers would benefit equally with the 

 workmen. They would obtain exactly what 

 employers must wish to have, if it came to 

 them in the ordinary course. Coming in the 

 manner proposed, what change might be 



