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however, another consideration, namely, that if the
state appeared as competing with the public
industry, it would by that means have an injurious
influence in the whole on the labour of the free
members of society.
These disadvantageous consequences would not
be caused by the introduction of a greater number
of goods at a low price into the market; it is on
the contrary an acknowledged truth in our times,
that the more a trade is extended, with a decrease
in the cost of manufacture, and in consequence of
that lower selling prices, the more is the number
of consumers increased, and the profits in the same
proportion. But this axiom in national economy
presupposes, however, a natural state of things and
a free development, which is not the case here;
for when the state must, at all events, support those
criminals who are confined in prison, and all
revenue from their labour, how limited soever it
may be, is nevertheless some amends for the money
laid out, it is easily seen, that any comparison with
a common workshop, or factory, cannot here be
made, when the real expense of manufacture need
not be taken in full into the selling price of the
article.
Several persons have considered that for the
removal of this difficulty, the prisoners ought to
be kept to such work, as requires great exertion,
without, however, producing any really useful or
saleable article; but besides the immorality which
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