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    tho $# ol their owa * Their wise and enlightened policy is crowned with complete success , on the simple principle of Cheap Production , the consequence of leaving industry to it $ etf ! Their governments are unexpensive ; their taxes li g ht ; all articles of consumption cheap , because the goods $ f the whole " world are Freely admitted ; the wages of labour are low ,

    because the articles of consumption are low ; their manufactures produced at a low rate never fail to find a market ; if excluded from one country they find their way into another ; Irjr fair means or foul , people will have them , simply because taey are cheap . " Tw 0 millions of men , " says Dr Bo wring , " have made , under every disa&vantage , the experiment of free trade as a system . Its incontrovertible results must , I am sure , silence the doubts and remove the

    difficulties of the honest and disinterested inquirer . One element only is wanting to make Switzerland the most prosperous of manufacturing * Uaijons . Capital is rapidly increasing- by the action of unrestricted , un-Fetteredj unprotected industry . Intelligence is widely spreading—intelligence , the consequence of universal popular instruction . * Activity is every where visible , alike in the trading and the agricultural districts . Nactionai debt there is none in many of the cantons ; and some of them iiftlfefed nearly discharge the expenses of their government out of the interest f > f that capital which has been accumulated from the surplus revenues of

    many . years . Wages are comparatively low in many of the departments of industry , the necessary result of the general cheapness of most of the articles of consumption—a cheapness which is again the cause and consequence of ti * e free egress and ingress of all commodities . The land is for the i ^ Qsi . part released from tithes and taxes , and the people subject to very trifling- Ascal burdens . But Switzerland is far away from all the great outlets of trade . The cotton she manufactures has to be conveyed many hundreds of miles from the Mediterranean , and even a greater distance from the

    Atlantic Ocean . Her silks she imports from Italy and France , and her wool fVtom Germany . When her produce seeks a market in a foreign land , it is exposed to the risks , and delays , and charges of the same tardy , difficult , and expensive transit . It must find its way over the Jura or the Alpine mountains ; be conveyed down the irriguous rivers or on the inland lakes ; yet , spite of all impediments , the manufactured products of Switzerland are found in all the great markets of the universe ; ducts of Switzerland are found in all the great markets of the universe

    alia the reason is simple , but obvious , —Industry has been left to itself . Weajtn has not been diverted by legislative interference from its own natural tendencies . There has been no foolish struggle encouraged by tlte ' goVeVnment between the protected monopoly of the few and tne unprotected Interests of the many . The consumer has been allowed to go « . c ? - • I . —¦ i ^ M ^ M^^^— | - ¦ , , , * I went over the prison of Berne , in which were 320 convicts , men * d < 1 women . AmttgJM&tat |! 5 * r * te « b | e to read printed books , and only between 40 and 50

    wart ^ uaafcla to wrtt « , . moat of whom were strangers . These ware being instructed . wart-wfrabla to wrlt « , . moat of whom were strangers . These ware being instructed . ? 2 ^ ' ^ J £ ? 5 ftW * ar' ** ° f I'ftUftftnpe and Geneva there was not a single prison * r who hw hoi Men taught to read and write . I refer to the prisons as exhibiting the at »| a of education among the vary trortt and m pjj t ignorant parti of the community .

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    # Jji CotomWcfal Freedom .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/18/