1823 March 18

Fallacies Book III Outs

Part IX Envyings and Jealousies

1 Ch. 2 Blind Job Denouncers Cry

Ch. 2. Blind Job-Denouncers Cry - What? more Jobs?

The Blind Job-Denouncers cry differ no otherwise from the Blind Place-Abhorrer's than as the nature of the benefit in question in the one case differs from what it is on the other. In the case of the Place-abhorrers vry the benefit is generally of a permanent as well as a well defined nature: in the case of the Job-Denouncer's cry it is commonly of an incidental and transient[?] nature, and still more commonly of an undefined or imperfectly defined nature.

Of the sort of transaction [...?] a Job, the most extensively applied and bid-defined species is that what is commonly howsoever undiscriminatingly designated by the word Contract: understand with Government: a contract for the supply of this or that portion of the labour or stock or all sorts employed by Governments

In a word any institution or transaction from whence benefit in any shape is seen or pretended to be seen to be reaped or about to be reaped by an assignable individual in consequence of a /any/ transaction of his with government is in virtue of the quality this ascribed to it, want in use to be termed a Job, and as such denounced in the character of an instrument employed in the source of corruption /of corruption/ And so in its form is the word and at the same time so strong and so extensive is the sentiment of disapprobation which by exposure of the evil stands attached to the idea of a transaction voluntarily on the part of an individual between the individual and Government; and thence so commodiously dyslogistic the character and complexion of it, that it is no commonly employed /applied/ in the /its/ character of a dyslogistic appelative

appellative to any fresh Office under Governments or to the measure by which such office has been established.