To fum up the whole. Thoufands
of People throughout the Land, are
perilling for want of Food, This
is owing to various Caufes ; but a-
bove all, to DlfiJI/mg^ T'axcsy and
Luxury,
Here is the Evil, and the unde-
niable Caufes of it. But where is
the Remedy ?
Perhaps it exceeds all the "WiC-
dom of Man to tell : But it may
not be amifs to offer a few Hints on
the Subjed.
IL I. What Remedy is there for
this fore Evil, — Many thoufand poor
People are flarving?
Find
26 ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK
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Find them Work, and you wili
find them Meat. They will then
earn and eat their own Bread.
2. But how can the Mafters give
them Work, without ruining them-
felves ?
Procure Vent for what is wrought,
and the Mafters will give them as
much Work as they can do. And
this would be done, by finking the
Price of Provifions : For then Peo-
ple would have Money to buy other
things too.
3. But how can the Price of
Wheat and Barley be reduced?
By prohibiting for ever, by mak-
ing a full End, of that Bane of
Health, that Deftroyer of Strength,
of Life and of Virtue, DtftilUng. —
C 3 Perhaps
ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK 27
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Perhaps this alone might go a great
way toward anfwering rhe whole
Defign. 'TIs not improbable, it
would' fpeedily fink the Price of
Corn, at leaft one Part in three.
If any thing more were required.
Might not all Starch be made of
Rice, and the Importation of this,
as well as of Corn, be incouraged?
4. How can the Price of Oats be
reduced ?
By reducing the Number of Hor-
fes. And may not this be effedu-
ally done, (without affe(fling the
Ploughman, the Waggoner, or any of
thofe who keep Horfes for common
Work;) i. By laying a Tax of
ten Pounds, on every Horfe export-
ed to France, for which (notwith-
itanding an artful Paragraph in a
late public Paper) there is as great
28 ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK
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a Demand as ever? 2. By laying
an additional Tax on Gentlemen's
Carriages : Not fo much on every
IVheel,, (bare-faced, fhamelefe Parti-
ality 1) but five Pounds yearly, upon
every Horfe, And wrould not thefe
two Taxes alone fupply near as much
as is now paid for Leave to poifon
his Majefty's liege Subjects ?
5. How can the Price of Beef
and Mutfon be reduced >
By Increafing the Breed of Sheep
and horned Cattle. And this would
foon be iricreafed feven-fold, if the
Price of Horfes was reduced ; which
it furely would be, half in half, by
the Method above-mentioned.
6. How can the Price of Pork and
Poultry be reduced ?
Whether
ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK 29
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Whether it ever w/V/, is another
Queftlon. — But it can be done< i.
By letting no Farms of above an
hundred Pounds a Year : 2. By re-
prefTing Luxury : Whether by Laws,
by Example; or by Both. — I had
almofl faid, By the Grace of GOD.
But to mention This, has been long
out of Faihion.
7. How may the Price of Land
be* Tedaced ?
By all the Methods above-named,
as each tends to- ieffen the Expence
of Houfe-keepiog : Bat efpecially the
kft; by reftraining Luxury, which
is the grand and general Source of
Want.
8. How may the Taxes be redu-
ced ?
I . By difcharging half, the Nati-
onal Debty and fo faving by this
fingle
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To fum up the whole. Thoufands
of People throughout the Land, are
perilling for want of Food, This
is owing to various Caufes ; but a-
bove all, to DlfiJI/mg^ T'axcsy and
Luxury,
Here is the Evil, and the unde-
niable Caufes of it. But where is
the Remedy ?
Perhaps it exceeds all the "WiC-
dom of Man to tell : But it may
not be amifs to offer a few Hints on
the Subjed.
IL I. What Remedy is there for
this fore Evil, — Many thoufand poor
People are flarving?
Find
26 ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK
( '7 )
Find them Work, and you wili
find them Meat. They will then
earn and eat their own Bread.
2. But how can the Mafters give
them Work, without ruining them-
felves ?
Procure Vent for what is wrought,
and the Mafters will give them as
much Work as they can do. And
this would be done, by finking the
Price of Provifions : For then Peo-
ple would have Money to buy other
things too.
3. But how can the Price of
Wheat and Barley be reduced?
By prohibiting for ever, by mak-
ing a full End, of that Bane of
Health, that Deftroyer of Strength,
of Life and of Virtue, DtftilUng. —
C 3 Perhaps
ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK 27
(,8 )
Perhaps this alone might go a great
way toward anfwering rhe whole
Defign. 'TIs not improbable, it
would' fpeedily fink the Price of
Corn, at leaft one Part in three.
If any thing more were required.
Might not all Starch be made of
Rice, and the Importation of this,
as well as of Corn, be incouraged?
4. How can the Price of Oats be
reduced ?
By reducing the Number of Hor-
fes. And may not this be effedu-
ally done, (without affe(fling the
Ploughman, the Waggoner, or any of
thofe who keep Horfes for common
Work;) i. By laying a Tax of
ten Pounds, on every Horfe export-
ed to France, for which (notwith-
itanding an artful Paragraph in a
late public Paper) there is as great
28 ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK
( 19 )
a Demand as ever? 2. By laying
an additional Tax on Gentlemen's
Carriages : Not fo much on every
IVheel,, (bare-faced, fhamelefe Parti-
ality 1) but five Pounds yearly, upon
every Horfe, And wrould not thefe
two Taxes alone fupply near as much
as is now paid for Leave to poifon
his Majefty's liege Subjects ?
5. How can the Price of Beef
and Mutfon be reduced >
By Increafing the Breed of Sheep
and horned Cattle. And this would
foon be iricreafed feven-fold, if the
Price of Horfes was reduced ; which
it furely would be, half in half, by
the Method above-mentioned.
6. How can the Price of Pork and
Poultry be reduced ?
Whether
ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK 29
( 20 )
Whether it ever w/V/, is another
Queftlon. — But it can be done< i.
By letting no Farms of above an
hundred Pounds a Year : 2. By re-
prefTing Luxury : Whether by Laws,
by Example; or by Both. — I had
almofl faid, By the Grace of GOD.
But to mention This, has been long
out of Faihion.
7. How may the Price of Land
be* Tedaced ?
By all the Methods above-named,
as each tends to- ieffen the Expence
of Houfe-keepiog : Bat efpecially the
kft; by reftraining Luxury, which
is the grand and general Source of
Want.
8. How may the Taxes be redu-
ced ?
I . By difcharging half, the Nati-
onal Debty and fo faving by this
fingle
30 ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK
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