A NEW AND
INFALLIBLE WAY
TO MAKE TRADE
WE all know that Consumption makes Trade. Now Thieves and Landlords consume, therefore they make Trade, though they make Nothing else. Then wherefore should we complain of Thieves and Landlords, since they are so beneficial to Society? For they spend in Society, what they get from Society. But as Thieves circulate their Plunder more quickly than Landlords do, they more eminently be stiled the very Life and Soul of Trade. For easy come, easy go is their Maxim. A Trading Nation ought therefore to tolerate Thieves to accelerate Trade, if they do not carry their Plunder out of the Country, but if found so doing, then hang them without Mercy.
Now, some say, that on these Principles Fires and Shipwrecks make Trade, and so they do. And those who get Trade by these things do not complain of them. Many People get Trade by Wars, and such People never complain of Wars. So here, behold, we have those who would not be sorry a the Devastations of Fires, Shipwrecks, Wars, Thieves, or Landlords, if so be they could get Trade by these Calamities. Now of all these precious Consumers Landlords are the most tardy; and many of them such very retentive Leeches, that they seem to require some of the aforesaid Stimulants, or Emetics, to make them disgorge, and give back the Life's Blood of Society, which their Tenacity retains from Circulation. I am no Friend to Fires, Shipwrecks, Wars, Thieves, or Landlords, but since we must have Trade no Matter how, it is no Matter how. So Success to Trade!
Make Trade! Can Nobody make Trade but Thieves and Landlords? Yes, certainly; any Body, and every Body can make Trade, if Thieves and Landlords leave any Thing to make it with. But here we are, picked quite base; for as the Scripture has it “What the Palmer Worm hath left, the Locust hath eaten; and what the Locust hath left, the Canker Work hath eaten; and what the Canker Worm hath left, the Caterpillar hath eaten.” Thus successive Courses of Thieves and Landlords eat up all, and leave us Nothing for Trade, while they claim all the Merit of making Trade though with our Money!
But if any would know how we might have Trade in the largest Extent, and legitimate, honest Trade too, without any of the aforesaid Calamities, let him read SPENCE'S PLAN, the only Sovereign Remedy for all the Evils of Society. Sold by Jones, No. 5, Newgate Street, and all the Booksellers.
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