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1818. Novr. 24. Official Economy
1818. Novr. 24.

Official Economy

Ch Expence minimized

Patriotic auction

? Objection - Poor excluded.

Of the exclusion thus undesignedly applied were peremptory and

unsurmountable acting as in the case of Hindoo and European feudal Casts upon all

individuals placed by birth in certain classes, the objection might indeed operate with

a weight which it has been seen does not belong to it. But the case thus supposed has no

existence. By whatsoever means acquired, let but a man possess the requisite quantity of

wealth the bar by which he is excluded is removed. In the very nature of things in so

far as to the possession of any object the possession of a certain quantity of the

matter of wealth is necessary all persons not in possession of this necessary quantity

of the means of purchase, stand excluded from the possession of the subject of purchase.

But in this case the exclusion is the work of the inexorable nature of things not of any

unjust or impolitic law: the work of nature not of law. If on the ground of want of

nobility of birth, or want of conformity to a religion by law established all persons

thus deficient were excluded by law from the faculty of concluding their repast by pine

Apples here would be injustice. In point of fact under every European Government with

the exception of a very few all persons do stand excluded from the faculty of

participating in so eminently expensive a gratification. But the exclusion being here

the work not of law but of Nature here is no injustice.
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    Description: 1818 Novr. 24.

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    Ch. Expence minimized

    ?. Objection - Poor excluded

    ?. Objection to the sale of Official Salaries on Government account,

    Exclusion put upon all but the correspondently affluent - answered.

    To this expedient for minimizing the amount /expence/ of official pay,

    an objection has been heard to be offered: on this plan i.e. an exclusion will be put

    upon all candidates other than those who comparatively and relatively speaking, are in a

    state of affluence.

    Answer - If this objection is to be regarded /acted upon/ as prevalent

    and conclusive, it must be in consideration of one or other of the interests affected by

    the decision /at stake/.

    These interests are 1. The interests of the public in respect of the

    branch in question of the public service whatever it be. 2. The interest of individuals

    considered as capable of entertaining a desire to become Competitors for the masses of

    net advantage in all shapes whatsoever they may be which it may be deemed advisable to

    attach to the respective offices.

    1. As far as concerns the interest of the public taken in the aggregate the question is

    already decided: the difference between the quantity of money and money's worth which

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    the score of pay and the quantity which without the benefit of it would be to be

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    In general, import in respect of one portion of wealth does not take place, but export in respect to another and correspondent position - a portion generally regarded as being of equal value takes place at nearly the same time: the transfer or self-deprivation having the acquisition for what in the language of English law is called its consideration, and in the language of general logic its final cause: but between community and community, as between individual and individual, from motives of fear, amity, or remote personal interest it will sometimes happen that export from this community shall take place without a correspondent import into this from that: import into this, without export from this into that: though import into this can not take place (unless it be from spots occupied in common by the two, such as the greater part of the sea, and some unappropriated parts of the land) without export from that.

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  • Title: [1818 Novr. 24 Official Economy.]
    Description: 1818 Novr. 24

    Official Economy.

    Ch. Expence minimized

    Patriotic Auction.

    ? Objection - Poor excluded.

    1. If by the exclusion thus unavoidably howsoever unintentionally put upon Competitors

    whose pecuniry means fall below the proposed Mark, the probability of adequate aptitude

    in the shape either of appropriate intellectual aptitude or in that of appropriate

    active talent were excluded /to a certain degree diminished/, here indeed would be an

    objection the force of which would require to be weighed. But by the supposition no such

    diminution has place. For by the supposition pecuniary trustworthiness in the character

    of a security of appropriate probity is of the three branches of appropriate probity the

    only one for the securing of which any particular provision requires to be made: of the

    two other branches respectively no greater measure is required than such as with an

    equally well-grounded confidence /assurance/ may be looked for in the one rank in the

    scale of affluence as in the other:- in the rank whose station is below the rank in

    question as in the rank whose station is above it.