: 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) 
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