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Competition.
96 W. F. WENTZEL'S
From competition arises a variety of circumstances which, for
a moment, promote the interest of many, in augmenting wages
aIld unfurling capacities which, without this, would perhaps
never have been demonstrated, tho' it is often prejudieial to
morals and equally inj urious to the character of many.
Besides this, several people who are roguish in private and
dissemblers in public (like at court) are the most noticed. Their
persons are pnblicly attended. to, and their interests are promoted
to the greatest and most advantageous expectations.
Shares in the Compan}' are given to them altho' they never
perhaps deserved it. While these are thus advanc.ed to what
their merits otherwise would not have entitled them, others,
honest characters, let their abilities be ever so great, are disregarded
for the time being, and must think themselves happy in
having the good fortune to gather the rags and be allowed the
approaches of these dissembling courtiers.
Another bad effect of competition IS drunkenness, murder,
theft, besides many other vices.
With respect to the Indians, the care and attention that is
paid (I was going to say to their persons) to them for the sake of
their skins. renders them much more civilized and cunning. By
this, they take a footing which, with time, induces them to
commit actions which otherwise they would not have dared to
mention Indolence, robbery and murder are the consequences
of an opposition in trade: people \yould suppose it would ronse
their attention to industry, having goods at a lower price, but
far to the contrary; drunkenness, idleness and vice are prefered;
they are, indeed, of a beggarly disposition. Thus no good
can be derived from the turbulen t struggles of opposition in
this country; it destroys trade, creates vice, and renders people
crafty, ruins good morals, and almost totally abolishes every
humane sentiment in both Christian and Indian breast.