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also reduction of interest on loans,1 and many other
things of this sort can be done which already have
been begun, and which open up a vista of solid pros-
perity for the country as a whole, as this most
beneficent of all industrial movements spreads.2
And then I must put in a word here for my poor
handicrafts ; because here there is an industry that is
not dead though it is decaying, that of the weavers,
and that is being taken up from the co-operative stand-
point.2 In Benares, there is a co-operative society of
weavers that is doing exceedingly useful work, and I
find that the weaving population, according to the re-
ports given, is one of the most difficult to deal with
because of the low type of character, because of the
ignorance, because of the hopelessness, the very worst
enemy of all progress; and yet it is found that where
those men are individually taught, where there is a
chance of their learning, where you bring in the hand-
power loom, with its improved amount of production,
and where, as around Serampur in Bengal, you get a
great weaving population, there is hope; 10,000 men
have been trained there in the weaving college and
carry to their villages the improved system of weaving.
They are able to produce in the same time just four times
as much as they did before, and only Rs. 10 is want-
ed to start such a man on his way.3 Take next what
1 A long list of reductions is given in Bulletin, June 1913, p. 300.
- See the detailed reports on many industries in the December
1912, Bulletin, pp. 106-123.
* See Appendix II. 1 Weaving,' p. 152.
things of this sort can be done which already have
been begun, and which open up a vista of solid pros-
perity for the country as a whole, as this most
beneficent of all industrial movements spreads.2
And then I must put in a word here for my poor
handicrafts ; because here there is an industry that is
not dead though it is decaying, that of the weavers,
and that is being taken up from the co-operative stand-
point.2 In Benares, there is a co-operative society of
weavers that is doing exceedingly useful work, and I
find that the weaving population, according to the re-
ports given, is one of the most difficult to deal with
because of the low type of character, because of the
ignorance, because of the hopelessness, the very worst
enemy of all progress; and yet it is found that where
those men are individually taught, where there is a
chance of their learning, where you bring in the hand-
power loom, with its improved amount of production,
and where, as around Serampur in Bengal, you get a
great weaving population, there is hope; 10,000 men
have been trained there in the weaving college and
carry to their villages the improved system of weaving.
They are able to produce in the same time just four times
as much as they did before, and only Rs. 10 is want-
ed to start such a man on his way.3 Take next what
1 A long list of reductions is given in Bulletin, June 1913, p. 300.
- See the detailed reports on many industries in the December
1912, Bulletin, pp. 106-123.
* See Appendix II. 1 Weaving,' p. 152.