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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The next thing is the securing our Wool at Home, and making this a Market for all the Wool of Christendom, whereby England would soon become the Queen of Europe, and flourishing in itsManufactures grow Rich by the Labour of its People, and consequently might better afford toimport Commodities to be spent on Luxury; I take it to be one great Reason why the Kingdomof Spain still continues poor notwithstanding its Indies, because all that the Inhabitants buy ispurchased for its full Value in Treasure or Product, their Labour adding nothing to its Wealth,for want of Manufactures; I am apt to think greater Steps may be made in this than havehitherto been done, and our Wool may be kept at home, not by punishing the Exporter withDeath, but by apt Methods to prevent his doing it; and when a Lock is put on Ireland andRumny-Marsh, Foreign Countrys will more easily be prevailed on to send us theirs.

These things seem worth the Consideration of the ensuing Parliament, a great many Members of the last to my certain Knowledge began to be much in Love with Trade, and have oftenlamented the dark Notions That House had of it, for want of being put into a better Light bythose who ought to have represented it truly to them.