102 INTRODUCTION. 



and all the various productions of this beautiful and rich province, 

 cultivated by the 9999, must ultimately come to the hands of 

 the monopolist as the only purchaser of what they have to sell, 

 and the only seller of all they must necessarily buy ! Show that 

 the inevitable consequence of the want of competition will be, 

 that he will buy (and let him deny it if he can) the produce of the 

 country at the lowest possible rate, and he will sell his mer- 

 chandise to his 9999 fellow-citizens as dear as possible ; so that 

 not only will his 9999 countrymen be injured, but the lands will 

 remain waste, the manufactures without workmen, and the inha- 

 bitants of the province will be lazy and poor from the want of a 

 sufficient stimulus. Teach that it is a law of nature, that ' no man 

 will labour solely for the gain of another.' 



" Tell the monopolist that the method of acquiring general riches, 

 political power, and even his own private advantage, is to sell the 

 produce of the country as high, and foreign goods as low as possible ; 

 and that the only road to effect this truly desirable end is, to permit 

 a public competition. Let the supercargoes, masters, and agents of 

 the ships that wish to come, be permitted to introduce and sell their 

 goods to the best advantage ; let the merchants who bring capital, 

 or those who practise any art or handicraft, be permitted to settle 

 freely, and thus a competition will be formed which will give to 

 every one of the 9999 foreign articles at the lowest price, and will 

 sell the produce of this province at the very highest which the 

 market demanding it will allow. 



" Then the land and fixed property will be worth four times as much 

 as it is now ; then the fine buildings on the banks of the river will 

 have their magazines full of the richest foreign and domestic pro- 

 ductions, instead of being the deposits of comparative poverty, and 

 the receptacles of filth and crime; then all will be activity and 

 energy, because the reward will be in proportion to the labour. 



" Commerce being so facilitated, your spacious river will be filled 

 with ships of all nations ; your noble docks will display a line of 

 vessels building or repairing, either belonging to yourselves, or to 



