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(3) Debt is not the principal Source of the high price of labour, but the general disposition of the manufacturers to idleness and debauchery; when provisions are cheap they work less, when dear they work better and more constantly, deletion unclear /deletion add therefore their /add work is cheaper.
The most expeditious means of increasing the number of People, of keeping down the prince of labour, of enforcing industry, and of improving our manufactures, is by a general naturalization. this deletion would encourage manufacturing unclear /deletion add idea has been violently opposed, yet the Gentry, the Clergy and /add the farmers would be benefited by the improvement of their Lords; deletion unclear /deletion add manufactures would be improved and rendered cheaper which /add deletion besides unclear the arts and improvements for foreigners /deletion add would encrease their foreign trade, consequently enrich the Manufacturer,/add deletion This idea has been violently opposed, but /deletion the Broker, and the Merchant, and the number of Ships and Sailors thus employed must greatly encrease the means of a large Navy; the excellence of our Constitution would make many rich men come and settle here; if this remedy cannot be adopted, the example of the Dutch ought to be followed who oblige the Labourers to work moderately Six days in the Week, this would be equal to an increase of one third of manufacturing people, some think it would amount to above twenty millions more per annum in Commodities, than now are produced.
Every means should be employed to oblige the poor to work six days in the week, this would produce an addition of ten millions worth of Commodities per Annum; if the poor will give up superfluities and pay taxes on by on their necessaries, they will not amount to a thirty sixth part of what they earn; whilst the Dutch pay six times as much as our poor are obliged to do the necessaries the poor ought to consume are not dearer in England
