10 Decr 1801

Maximum

6. Scarcity Crops

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6. “It is not enough to say, that the maximum shall be set so high, that

generally speaking, the farmer shall be a gainer” – (Certainly – but quere was

this ever said by any body?) What (continues the Hon. Gentleman) will that man

say to your average[?] whose crop has almost totally failed, and who even at the

very high price of the market may possibly be a loser? Will you make him a

greater loser by arbitrarily reducing the price of his corn?”

Thus far the Hon: Gentleman: for my own part I must confess I see not what true

light can /will/ be thrown on the subject by a dialogue /conversation/ between a

man {placed} /put into/ a case from which nothing can be concluded, and a

supposed simpleton of a legislator – such an one as the man would never meet

with.