INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

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without necessity; if too late, this most legitimate
of all modes of relief becomes, as we have
said, nearly useless. If daily pay be roo freely
given, the people of aU countries, when employed
for charity, will struggle to do next to
nothing. If task-work is rigidly enforced, without
the means of making it practicable to all,
the object of relief may be defeated. If taskrates
are too hard, they are injurious; if easy
in the extreme, it is probably impossible to
vary such rates according to the capacity of
individuals, and the stronger labourers are
enabled to earn far too easy gains, from which
it is difficult to wean them. We cannot say
that anyone system should be followed under
all circumstances. Everything must depend on
individual skill and discretion."
As to a money or grain wage. What may
be suitable in one locality may not be the most
advantageous method in another. In the Bame
place, what is expedient at one time may prove
inexpedient at another. Very much, in this
respect, will always be left to local discretion.
There are some circumstances which will indicate
one mode of procedure, while other features