A Chine Story
Mis Daily: Friday, November 16, 2012 by Frederic Bastiat
There is nothing that is not pretended by the writers in favor of protection to be established as an aid to the working class — there is positively no exception, not even the custom hou. You fancy, perhaps, that the custom hou is merely an instrument of taxation like property taxes or the toll bar! Nothing of the kind. It is esntially an institution for promoting the march of civilization, fraternity, and equality. What would you be at? It is the fashion to introduce, or affect to introduce, ntiment and ntimentalism everywhere, even into the toll gatherer's booth.
The custom hou, we must allow, has a very singular machinery for realizing philanthropical aspirations.
It includes an army of directors, subdirectors, inspectors, subinspectors, comptrollers, examiners, heads of departments, clerks, supernumeraries, aspirant supernumeraries, not t
o speak of the officers of the active rvice; and the object of all this complicated machinery is to exerci over the industry of the people a negative action, which is summed up in the word obstruct.
三朵玫瑰代表什么Obrve, I do not say that the object is to tax, but to obstruct. To prevent, not acts that are repugnant to good morals or public order, but transactions that are in themlves not only harmless but fitted to maintain peace and union among nations.
And yet the human race is so flexible and elastic that it always surmounts the obstructions. And then we hear of the labor market being glutted.
遗传信息If you hinder a people from obtaining its subsistence from abroad it will produce it at home. The labor is greater and more painful, but subsistence must be had. If you hinder a man from traversing the valley he must cross the hills. The road is longer and more difficult, but he must get to his journey's end.
This is lamentable, but we come now to what is ludicrous. When the law has thus created
obstacles, and when in order to overcome them society has diverted a corresponding amount of labor from other employments, you are no longer permitted to demand a reform. If you point to the obstacle you are told of the amount of labor to which it has given employment. And if you rejoin that this labor is not created, but displaced, you are answered in the words of the Esprit Public, "The impoverishment alone is certain and immediate; as to our enrichment, it is more than problematical."
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This reminds me of a Chine story, which I will relate to you.
There were in China two large towns, called Tchin and Tchan. A magnificent canal united them. The emperor thought fit to order enormous blocks of stone to be thrown into it for the purpo of rendering it uless.
On eing this, Kouang, his first mandarin, said to him, "Son of Heaven! This is a mistake."
To which the emperor replied, "Kouang, you talk nonn."
I give you only the substance of their conversation.
At the end of three months the celestial emperor nt again for the mandarin, and said to him, "Kouang, behold!"
And Kouang opened his eyes, and looked.
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And he saw at some distance from the canal a multitude of men at work. Some were excavating, others were filling up hollows, leveling and paving. And the mandarin, who was very cultivated, said to himlf, They are making a highway.
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When another three months had elapd, the emperor again nt for Kouang and said to him, "Look!"
And Kouang looked.
And he saw the road completed, and from one end of it to the other he saw here and there inns for travelers erected. Crowds of pedestrians, carts, litters, came and went, and
innumerable Chine, overcome with fatigue, carried back and forth heavy burdens from Tchin to Tchan, and from Tchan to Tchin. And Kouang said to himlf, It is the destruction of the canal that gives employment to the poor people. But the idea never struck him that their labor was simply diverted from other employments.交通安全宣传
Three months more pasd, and the emperor said to Kouang, "Look!"
And Kouang looked. And he saw that the hostelries were full of travelers, and that to supply their wants there were grouped around them butchers' and bakers' stalls, shops for the sale of edible bird nests. He also saw that, the artisans having need of clothing, there had ttled among them tailors, shoemakers, and tho who sold parasols and fans; and as they could not sleep in the open air, even in the Celestial Empire, there were also masons, carpenters, and slaters. Then there were officers of police, judges, fakirs; in a word, a town with its suburbs had rin round each hostelry.
And the emperor asked Kouang what he thought of all this.
And Kouang said that he never could have imagined that the destruction of a canal could have provided employment for so many people; for the thought never struck him that this was not employment created but labor diverted from other employments, and that men would have eaten and drunk in passing along the canal as well as in passing along the highroad.
However, to the astonishment of the Chine, the Son of Heaven at length died and was buried.
His successor nt for Kouang, and ordered him to have the canal cleared out and restored.
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And Kouang said to the new emperor, "Son of Heaven! You commit a blunder."云播放
And the emperor replied, "Kouang, you talk nonn."
But Kouang persisted, and said, "Sire, what is your object?"
"My object is to facilitate the transit of goods and pasngers between Tchin and Tchan, to render carriage less expensive, in order that the people may have tea and clothing cheaper."
