Elements of Political Economy With Especial Reference to the Industrial Histor
Elements of Political Economy With Especial Reference to the Industrial Histor
Robert Ellis Thompson
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" Only a few of the ruder manufactures are still carried on j a woman's labor is worth four cents a day ; a man's will com- mand as much as fifty cents a week in the seaports. " The provincial populations, though not devoid of capacity for better things, are at present condemned to wither under a general atmosphere of maladministration and decay. . . . Beg- gars all, beggars all, marry, good sir; little doing, less likely 22 338 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. to be done; trade degenerated into ...pedlary, enterprise into swindling, banking into usury, policy into intrigue, lands un- tilled, forests wasted, mineral treasures unexplored, roads, har- bors, bridges, every class of public works utterly neglected and falling into ruin, pastoral life with nothing of the Abel about it, agriculture that Cain himself, and metallurgy that his work- man-son might have been ashamed of; in public life, universal venality and corruption; in social life, ignorance and bigotry; and in private life, immorality of every kind ; not ' something/ but everything 'rotten in the state of Turkey.
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