Count the public houses in this town.
"As to the fork-grinding trade, the Legislature might assist the masters to extinguish it.

It numbers only about one hundred and fifty persons, all much poisoned, and little paid.

The work could all be done by fifteen machines and thirty hands, and, in my opinion, without the expense of grindstones.

The thirty men would get double wages: the odd hundred and twenty would, of course, be driven into other trades, after suffering much distress.

And, on this account, I would call in Parliament, because then there would be a temporary compensation offered to the temporary sufferers by a far-sighted and, beneficent measure.
Besides, without Parliament, I am afraid the masters could not do it.
The fork-grinders would blow up the machines, and the men who worked them, and their wives and their children, and their lodgers, and their lodgers' visitors.
"For all that, if your theory of Life, Labor, and Capital is true, all incurably destructive handicrafts ought to give way to machinery, and will, as Man advances.".