Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1690625112

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-103086

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Amerikareise deutscher Gewerkschaftsführer

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verl.-Ges. des Allg. Dt. Gewerkschaftsbundes

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 256 S., [1] Bl.; Ill., Kt., Graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Kapitel. Die Wirtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten

Collection:: Economics Books

‘ Essays 7 on that side the water more numerous than they now are on this; but,— 4. Not necessary that the American Colonies should cease being useful to the Mother Country. Their Preference over the West India Colonies stated. —1 am far from entertaining, on that account, any fears of their becoming either useless or dangerous to us; and I look on those fears to be merely imagi- nary and without any probable foundation. The Remarker is reserved in giving his reasons; as, in his opinion, this “is not a fit subject for discussion.” I shall give mine, because I conceive it a subject necessary to be discussed; and the rather, as those fears, how groundless and chimerical soever, may, by possessing the multitude, possibly induce the ablest ministry to conform to them against their own judgment; and thereby prevent the assuring to the British name and nation a stability and permanency, that no man acquainted with history durst have hoped for, till our American possessions opened the pleasing prospect. The Remarker thinks that our people in America, “finding no check from Canada, would extend them- selves almost without bounds into the inland parts, and increase infinitely from all causes.” The very reason he assigns for their so extending, and which is indeed the true one (their being “invited to it by the pleasantness, fertility, and plenty of the coun- try’’), may satisfy us that this extension will con- tinue to proceed as long as there remains any =60] 37

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