Excerpt from The Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1927, Vol. 63: Issued Quarterly On the other hand, some approved the policy of giving bounties. One writes, The returns to Great Britain have far exceeded any expense from the support of colonies. Bounties have been often given but for the purpose chiey of freeing England from dependence upon foreign nations. The savings have exceeded the bounties.9 Another, Every advantage accruing to the colonies by their connec tion with the mother country is amply, dearly paid for, by the benefits derived to her from them - Those benefits have been allowed by the best writers to be immense and consist in the various employment and the support they afi'ord her people.' 0 These quotations Show, however, that the bounties were given as a farmer feeds his turkeys in October, - that they may weigh more at Thanksgiving. The colonies were helped that they might give England more in return. Between the liberals who would let America get rich as best she could and the restrictionists who would first try to make England rich and then attempt to force America to grow rich in the manner they thought best, was a mid dle class who would let the colonists conduct any trade until they competed directly with England; who might pass severe laws and permit a judicious violation of the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical w