The slave trade, domestic and foreign - Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by H. C. (Henry Charles) Carey
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admit, the correctness of the following propositions:--
I. That the nearer the market the less must be the cost to the farmer for transporting his products to market and for bringing back the manure to maintain and improve his land. II. That the nearer the market the less must be the loss of labour in going to market, and the greater the quantity that can be given to the improvement of the land. III. That the more the labour and manure that can be given to land, the larger will be the product and the greater its value. IV. That the larger the quantity of commodities produced the greater will be the demand for labour to be employed in converting them into forms that fit them for consumption, and the larger the quantity to be divided among the labourers. V. That the greater the competition for the purchase of labour the greater must be the tendency toward the freedom of the labourer. VI. That the freedom of man in thought, speech, action, and trade, tends thus to keep pace with increase in the habit of association among men, and increase in the value of land;--and VII. That the interests of the labourer and land-owner are thus in perfect harmony with each other, the one becoming free as the other becomes rich. Equally correct will be found the following propositions:-- |
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