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Laws, prohibitions, regulations and classifications could then be procured to
ratify that power. The attention of other traders would be limited to certain commodities, certain localities and certain times, and otherwise impoverish them and deprive them of their livelihood, and they the countryside around them.
It is strange that one should wish to disassociate the Commodity Ordinance from such inevitable consequences. Did the Estate of Burghers not predict that it would lead to shortages and high prices? The prediction was fulfilled, and when general distress arose, the remedy was seen to lie in suspending it; and yet it is said: the nation profits from the Commodity Ordinance.
We wish to develop a water-powered process; we have seen that it begins to operate when the dam is opened, yet we assert that
it works best when it is closed. Is not the destruction of industry and immiseration of the citizens a hard way to earn a profit for the nation?
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