: Benjamin Franklin [1773
behave so as to provoke the people to drub them,
promote those to better offices; this will encourage
others to procure for themselves such profitable
drubbings, by multiplying and enlarging such provocations,
 and all will work towards the end you
aim at.
12. Another way to make your tax odious, is to
masapply the produce of it. If it was originally appropriated
 for the defence of the provinces, and the
better support of government, and the administration
 of justice, where it may be necessary, then apply
none of it to that defence; but bestow it where it is
not necessary, in augmenting salaries or pensions to
every governor who has distinguished himself by his
enmity to the people, and by calumniating them to
their sovereign. This will make them pay it more
unwillingly, and be more apt to quarrel with those
that collect it and those that imposed it; who will
quarrel again with them; and all shall contribute to
your own purpose, of making them weary of your
government.
13. If the people of any province have been accustomed
 to support their own governors and judges to
satisfaction, you are to apprehend that such governors
 and judges may be thereby influenced to treat
the people kindly and to do them justice. This is
another reason for applying part of that revenue in
larger salaries to such governors and judges, given,
as their commissions are, during your pleasure only;
forbidding them to take any salaries from their provinces;
 that thus the people may no longer hope any
kindness from their governors, or (in crown cases)

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