Читать книгу An Essay on the State of England. In Relation to Its Trade, Its Poor, and Its Taxes, for Carrying on the Present War Against France онлайн

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By imploying the Poor.1. By providing Work-houses for the Poor, and making good Laws both to force and encourage them to work; but designing to speak larger to this before I close this Tract shall referr theReader to it.

By freeing the Manufactures from Customs.2. By discharging all Customs payable on them at their Exportation, and also on the Materialsused in making them at their Importation; for as the one would encourage the Merchant to sendmore abroad, so the other would enable the Manufacturers to afford them cheaper at home, and'tis strange that a Nation whose Wealth depends on Manufactures, and whose Interest it is tooutdo all others (especially in the Woollen) by underselling them in Foreign Markets, shouldload either with Taxes.

Logwood.Here I cannot but mention that of Logwood, a Commodity much used in Dying, which pays Five Pounds per Tun Custom in, and draws back Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings when shiptout, by which means the Dyers in Holland use it so much cheaper than ours;Dying and dressing our Woollen Manufactures at home. now if it wasImported Custom Free, and paid Twenty five Shillings per Tun at its Export, the Dyers therewould use it so much dearer than ours here, and I think it would be well worth Inquiry, whithera Prohibition either total or in part of Shipping out our Manufactures thither and to the NorthernKingdoms undyed or undrest might not be made, I am sure it would be of great Advantage tothis Kingdom if it might be done without running into greater Inconveniencies, which for mypart I do not foresee, the Dutch discourage their being brought in dyed or drest, that they maythereby give Employments to their own People, and increase their Navigation by theconsumption of great quantities of Dye-stuff, and the same reasons should prevail with us todye and dress them here, But this deserves the consideration of a Committee of Parliament tohear what may be said both for and against it.