Qu. Whether it be not true that the great Mogul's subjects
might undersell us even in our own markets, and clothe our people
with their stuffs and calicoes, if they were imported duty free?
194. Qu. Whether there can be a greater reproach on the leading men
and the patriots of a country, than that the people should want
employment? And whether methods may not be found to employ even the
lame and the blind, the dumb, the deaf, and the maimed, in some or
other branch of our manufactures?
195. Qu. Whether much may not be expected from a biennial
consultation of so many wise men about the public good?
196. Qu. Whether a tax upon dirt would not be one way of encouraging
industry?
197. Qu. Whether it may not be right to appoint censors in every
parish to observe and make returns of the idle hands?
198. Qu. Whether a register or history of the idleness and industry
of a people would be an useless thing?
199. Qu. Whether we are apprized, of all the uses that may be made
of political arithmetic?
200. Qu. Whether it would be a great hardship if every parish were
obliged to find work for their poor?
201. Qu. Whether children especially should not be inured to labour
betimes?
202. Qu. Whether there should not be erected, in each province, an
hospital for orphans and foundlings, at the expense of old
bachelors?
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