Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XII. Rules for reducing a Great Empire to a small one

Collection:: Economics Books

: 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 pro- vocations, 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 ap- propriated for the defence of the provinces, and the better support of government, and the administra- tion 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 accus- tomed to support their own governors and judges to satisfaction, you are to apprehend that such govern- ors 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 pro- vinces; that thus the people may no longer hope any kindness from their governors, or (in crown cases) 62

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