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In the present season of scarcity, the high price of corn no

doubt distresses the poor. But in times of moderate plenty, when

corn is at its ordinary or average price, the natural rise in the

price of any other sort of rude produce cannot much affect them.

They suffer more, perhaps, by the artificial rise which has been

occasioned by taxes in the price of some manufactured

commodities, as of salt, soap, leather, candles, malt, beer, ale,

etc.

_Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price of

Manufactures._