Show adam smith a great writer on an political pro wai wa a scotsman and when a child was stolen from his mothers door by tra velling tinkers A book lie he wrote call edThe wealth of 0 nations altered the ideas ol of men both in england and abroad he was devoted to the working class and said of them to it Is but equity that those who teed feed clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own lanor lador as to be thi melves tole tolerably raol oly well fed clothed and lodged on the other hand he has this to say about the merchants nier chants and manufacturer si our merr merchants hants and manufacturers complain much ot the effect of 0 high wages in raising the price and thereby lessening the sale of their goods goads both at home and abroad they say ay nothing concern I 1 be ng the bad effects of hitch profits they are silent with respect to the pernicious effects of their own gains th ey complain only of those of other people this great roan man received honors on every hand and for some years was lord rector of glasgow university |