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connection between such defeats and the migration of
their customers; and whether it is consistent with
the natural course of things and permanent
commercial prosperity that the distribution of such
articles should cost as much as their production,
which is the case whenever the retail price is
double that which the Sheffield or Birmingham
factor pays for them. The factor’s prime cost
represents the remuneration of the collier, the
metal miner, the crude metal workers, the skilled
artisans, and the various employers whose capital,
skill, and energy supply the material, shops, and
tools, and direct the labour of these producers.
The factor’s profit and that of the shopkeeper
added together represent the cost of merely
moving the finished article from the hands of
the manufacturer into those of the final retail
customer.
In Murray’s ‘Handbook’ it is stated that “the
vice of drunkenness prevails to a fearful extent
among the lower classes of this place.” During
our stay of five days we saw no evidence of this.
There was a noisy party at the hotel one night,
but not consisting of the so-called “lower classes.”
On the whole, there were fewer indications of
drinking than is usually displayed in towns of
similar size in England. Using the term “lower
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