9,999 injured, but the lands will remain waste, the manufactories
without workmen, and the people will be lazy and poor for want of
a stimulus, it being a law of nature that no man will labour solely
for the gain of another.

Tell the monopolist that the true method of acquiring general
riches, political power, and even his own private advantage, is to sell
his country's produce as high, and foreign goods as low as possible--and
that public competition can alone accomplish this. Let foreign
merchants who bring capital, and those who practise any art or
handicraft, be permitted to settle freely; and thus a competition
will be formed, from which all must reap advantage.

Then will land and fixed property increase in value; the
magazines, instead of being the receptacles of filth and crime, will
be full of the richest foreign and domestic productions, and all will
be energy and activity, because the reward will be in proportion to
the labour. Your river will be filled with ships, and the monopolist
degraded and shamed. You will bless the day in which Omnipotence
permitted the veil of obscurity to be rent asunder, under which the
despotism of Spain, the abominable tyranny of the Inquisition, and
the want of liberty of the press, so long hid the truth from your
sight.

Let your customs' duties be moderate, in order to promote the
greatest possible consumption of foreign and domestic goods; then
smuggling will cease, and the returns to the treasury increase. Let
every man do as he pleases as regards his own property, views, and
interests; because every individual will watch over his own with
more zeal than senates, ministers, or kings. By your enlarged