Has it been so?
No, for if the _supply_ has increased, the _demand_ has increased also.
Thus will it be with cloth; therefore let it come in.

It is true that you will have more competitors, but you will also have more customers, and richer ones.

Did you never think of this when seeing nine-tenths of your countrymen deprived during the winter of that superior cloth that you make?
This is not a very long lesson to learn.

If you wish to prosper, let your customers do the same.
When this is once known, each one will seek his welfare in the general welfare.

Then, jealousies between individuals, cities, provinces and nations, will no longer vex the world.
VI.
TO ARTISANS AND LABORERS.
Many papers have attacked me before you.