Additional Tax for the Current Service . 333 
ordinary taxes : the great point is how to come at them. When 
a people are accuftomed to pay, in a manner which for the 
moft part is imperceptible ; and already think they have gone 
as far as they can go in this way, will they ftill accommodate 
themfelves to the payment of further and more confiderable 
fums, in a more direct method ? Will they fubmit to such 
augmentation in such a manner? — If the augmentation is neces- 
sary, in what other manner can it be paid ? I am now fuppo- 
fiing, and I really believe what I tell you, that with (Economy we 
are able to carry on a vigorous war : that without interfering with 
our old taxes, by an extraordinary encouragement of induftry, we 
may keep up fuch a brilk circulation in every part of thele king- 
doms, that the money which the people pay in fuch additional 
tax, may fpeed'ily revert to them, in proportion as they make a 
claim to it for the produce of their labor. 
Nothing can be more demonftrable, than that the husband- 
man and manufacturer mu ft feed and clothe the soldier 
and the sailor. Pay them for it, and they will do it chear- 
fully, and in the iffue as chearfully contribute their extraordi- 
nary labor to the extraordinary charge of fupporting war. What 
may not be done by the force of industry, where there is a 
fruitful foil to cultivate, and materials to manufacture ? 
Does not the moft tranfient thought of war include the idea of 
extraordinary labor as well as uncommon hazard ? The 
peasant may grumble, and fo may the lord, but has not the? 
foldier the moft difficult part to adt ? 
What- 
