Querist eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 96 pages of information about Querist.

Querist eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 96 pages of information about Querist.

120.  Qu.  Whether the public aim ought not to be, that men’s industry should supply their present wants, and the overplus be converted into a stock of power?

121.  Qu.  Whether the better this power is secured, and the more easily it is transferred, industry be not so much the more encouraged?

122.  Qu.  Whether money, more than is expedient for those purposes, be not upon the whole hurtful rather than beneficial to a State?

123.  Qu.  Whether there should not be a constant care to keep the bills at par?

124.  Qu.  Whether, therefore, bank bills should at any time be multiplied but as trade and business were also multiplied?

125.  Qu.  Whether it was not madness in France to mint bills and actions, merely to humour the people and rob them of their cash?

126.  Qu.  Whether we may not profit by their mistakes, and as some things are to be avoided, whether there may not be others worthy of imitation in the conduct of our neighbours?

127.  Qu.  Whether the way be not clear and open and easy, and whether anything but the will is wanting to our legislature?

128.  Qu.  Whether jobs and tricks are not detested on all hands, but whether it be not the joint interest of prince and people to promote industry?

129.  Qu.  Whether, all things considered, a national bank be not the most practicable, sure, and speedy method to mend our affairs, and cause industry to flourish among us?

130.  Qu.  Whether a compte en banc or current bank bills would best answer our occasions?

131.  Qu.  Whether a public compte en banc, where effects are received, and accounts kept with particular persons, be not an excellent expedient for a great city?

132.  Qu.  What effect a general compte en banc would have in the metropolis of this kingdom with one in each province subordinate thereunto?

133.  Qu.  Whether it may not be proper for a great kingdom to unite both expedients, to wit, bank notes and a compte en banc?

134.  Qu.  Whether, nevertheless, it would be advisable to begin with both at once, or rather to proceed first with the bills, and afterwards, as business multiplied, and money or effects flowed in, to open the compte en banc?

135.  Qu.  Whether, for greater security, double books of compte en banc should not be kept in different places and hands?

136.  Qu.  Whether it would not be right to build the compters and public treasuries, where books and bank notes are kept, without wood, all arched and floored with brick or stone, having chests also and cabinets of iron?

137.  Qu.  Whether divers registers of the bank notes should not be kept in different hands?

138.  Qu.  Whether there should not be great discretion in the uttering of bank notes, and whether the attempting to do things per saltum be not often the way to undo them?

139.  Qu.  Whether the main art be not by slow degrees and cautious measures to reconcile the bank to the public, to wind it insensibly into the affections of men, and interweave it with the constitution?

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