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be paid for in money. In that case will there be any loss to
anybody; and if yes to whom, and what loss; that I
leave to you.
3. At the time when the exoneration takes place or before,
provide some public works such as the operatives thrown
out of employment will be capable of turning their
hands to, and: make known to them that for and during the
time mentioned and thereafter, not improbably for an indefinitely
longer time, or to the day of judgment, the same work
will be tendered to them at a not lower price. In this
case I see not how you can avoid paying them
something more than they get in and by their existing
occupation: for if it be not, here will be a quantity of
more or less considerable of irksomeness uncompensated.
4. If you feel bold enough to take off any part of the
import tax upon any goods by the importation of which any
operatives in France would be thrown out of employment you
will I suppose begin cæteris paribus with those by which
the smallest number will be thrown out of employment.
If so, then will come the consideration shall these
articles, the population being a given quantity, be those
in regard to which the population is most dense, or
those in regard to which it is most scattered. In the
first case the opposing force will be greatest and most
formidable in the first instance; in the second the
murmur will be most widely spread, and thence
peradventure at the upshot the opposing force the
greatest and most formidable; the murmur having
the effect of calling for he aid of the four opposition
parties as above.
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