Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to Become Rich: Wherein the Several Growths and Products of These Countries are Demonstrated to be a Sufficient Fund for a Flourishing TradePrivately reprinted, 1725 - 63 pagina's |
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Pagina 63 - Profit, yet, in case of loss, he is secur'd of such part as he insureth, which may be sufficient Bottom to begin a new Adventure : How far this may conduce to the Trade of this River, is obvious to any Man of Thought. Now whereas there has been some Attempts made at Philadelphia, which dropt and prov'd abortive, (for what Reasons we never could learn) we humbly propose to the Legislature that an Office be erected and supported by a Fund arising out of the Interest of the Loan-Office. This will be...
Pagina 24 - ... Bounty per Bushel be paid for all Wheat which shall be exported to any Parts of the Continent of Europe; as to France, Spain, Portugal and . . . Italy." Such an export subsidy could be financed by means of "a Land-Tax or a Duty on Rum," according to Rawle, who went on to characterize his scheme as "the only means to advance the Price of Grain which of late has been so low, that the Farmer has been reduc'd to the Brink of Ruin . . .", and to point out that "if the Planter or Farmer sinks, the...
Pagina 63 - Reasons we never could learn) we humbly propose to the Legislature that an Office be erected and supported by a Fund arising out of the Interest of the Loan-Office. This will be a good and safe Bottom, and cannot be easily overset by a few losses; and we conceive will contribute to keep up the Value of our PaperCredit by promoting of Trade, Navigation and Building of Ships, and in Consequence, of great Advantage to this River: which we refer to the Consideration of the Merchant.
Pagina 4 - ... Delaware at that time: .... considering Trade is of the last importance to the Good and Prosperity of any Country, and how much it has languish'd for divers Years past in the Colonies lying on Delaware; insomuch that Trade not only sunk, but most of the middling People, and divers good House-keepers, as well as the inferiour Rank labour'd under inextricable Difficulties, Silver and Gold the only Legal Currency, being almost totally exhausted, or kept up, that thro...
Pagina 4 - Currency, being almost totally exhausted, or kept up, that thro' the Scarcity thereof, the Farmer to pay a Debt was forc'd to sell twice as much as he needed to come at Silver, and take one part in such Goods as he did not want, till at last scarce any Money could be come at, or discharge the Incumbrance great Numbers of Estates lay under; all Credit private and publick, being sunk. And that this is not a groundless Suggestion...
Pagina 22 - that Specie which is the Chief Staple of our Trade, Wheat . . . what we raise in vast Quantities and what we are most to depend on," he urged on "the Legislative Authority of the Provinces on Delaware, that a Bounty per Bushel be paid for all Wheat which shall be exported to any Parts of the Continent of Europe; as to France, Spain, Portugal and . . . Italy.
Pagina 62 - ... in all probability, by the proposal for a national insurance office, made in 1711, the earliest of American political economists, Francis Rawle, proposed the establishment of a semi-governmental insurance institution in 1725. The proposition, in part, reads that " Having thus far discours'd of most of the Branches of Trade we are capable of, there is yet one great Encouragement, to adventure in the Discovery and Prosecution of new Markets; more safe to the industrious Adventurer; namely an InsuranceOffice...
Pagina 44 - French paper." 8. Linseed Oil. 9. Distillery is " another art or mystery we are capable of," though he considers the abuse of it as " very prejudicial to human nature." 10. "Rice is another species of grain this country is capable of; which grows and thrives very well here on new land, with no other tillage than what Barley requires, and is sown after the same manner; which is easier and with less tending than in Carolina.
Pagina 29 - World from the frequent use thereof. But not to be wholly without Hopes let the Brewer do his Part and the Legislature theirs by laying an Impost on Foreign Liquors, and permit the selling of Beer and Cyder free of all Charges: This will further the frequent use of the latter and Disuse of the former, consequently will...