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Police Report 12
5. Mr Benthams Penitentiary Plan
Another great The finishing advantage is, that it depends will depend
upon Government to put an end even to this
expense at the expiration of the two lives of
which his is one. On this head For proof of this Your Committee
have only to refer to the opinion which
already they have not hesitated to express. It is only
by very bad management indeed that in the
hands of an individual, [x] possessing such an
[x] bearing reaping all the profit
as well as standing to
all the loss
engine of management government as Mr Bentham's Penitentiary
House the profit upon the labour of a
stock of hands thus circumstanced can fail of being
more than an equivalent for the expense. We
know of no reason for being apprehensive that
worse than common management should be
carried on by Mr Bentham. His management
involves publicity in the its very essence.
of it and if ever for argument sake it shou
were ever should ever be seen to totter, the very plan itself has
provided a timely remedy. Viewed in this light,
in the light in which they view it the bargain can not but appear supposing it
punctually fulfilled on the part of government
can not but appear an extraordinarily advantageous
one to the individuals concerned. On
any other than the patent principle, [+] it might
[+] (for the stamp of originality
is apparent on every
feature)
even have been [a matter of doubtful doubtful] whether so
large a measure of remuneration would have
been defensible. But, when the public is our contracting
party, if a bargain, however advantageous
to the individual is at the same time an
advantageous one, especially if in equal or still
superior degree, to the public, the advantage to the
individual (who by contracting with the public does
not lose his place among the elements of which the public
is composed) so far from being an objection, is an
additional recommendation of the measure.
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