Labour Employed by "the Trade"

Then we are asked, What would be of the labour employed in the manuf[unclear: act] etc, of liquors, if the traffic stroyed ? The answer is that no[unclear: been] makes so large a return to capital [unclear: any] small a return to labour as does the Traffic.

Mr W. S. Came, M.P., was shows a brewery in which a million of was invested, which employed [unclear: out] men. Mr Caine was himself [unclear: interned] iron ore works in which only a [unclear: quarter] million of capital was invested, which employed 1,200 men; so that if the invested in the brewery had been in the iron ore works it would be employed, not 660 men, but 4,800. [unclear: Show] the manufacture of the iron into [unclear: the] for use, and the sale of the articles, [unclear: for] vastly more people than the [unclear: distribute] the liquor, for a given amount of invested.

If the Liquor Traffic were [unclear: supported] capital invested in it would [unclear: be] other channels of investment, and [unclear: this] to engage an enormously increased [unclear: of] labour.