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Old Stores – Selling

To this plan there is one very obvio objection,
and that an obvious one, viz: that it consists in goes to the
making places: same if government has its factors
these as well as the factors of individuals must be
paid – But when places are made where is the
harm of it? – In the expence of the instruments
attached to those places: but if this expence be overpaid
by the real profit and be no more than a deduction
out of those profits, the objection must surely
in point of reason fall to the ground. The objection
such as it is is merely a nominal one: In
point of fact the present system swarms with places
for the profit made by the dishonest dealer may
to this purpose be considered as a place. For our
placeman who upon the proposed place might at
least be honest, (and who would be selected by competent
authority under the notion of being such) you
have a dozen perhaps who are confederates of theirs.
In the one place case so many places as you have,
so many rewards for if not always for probity,
at any rate for supposed probity: in the other case
so many rewards for notorious improbity depravity and
so many examples tending contributing to spread the contagion
of improbity far and wide.

The antipathy to horror of place-making, if not tempered
by sound discretion, and guarded by enlarged
views capable of taking in and weighing advantages
and disadvantages on both sides, is at least as apt
to be prejudicial as to probitive salutary to the public
service. It has owes perhaps as much of its foundation to jealousy and
envy (at least if in to the jealousy and envy of those
censors whose by the fear of reproaches it is
generated

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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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