There is a vital difference in practice between opening a public workshop in the exceptional emergency of a famine, and keeping public workshops open as a normal interference with the free course of industrial activity.
Morley distinguishes between emergency measures and ongoing government interference in the economy.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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