—If they say to you: The lands in the Crimea are worth nothing, and pay no taxes—
Reply: The gain is on our side, since we buy grain free from those charges.
—If they say to you: The serfs of Poland work without wages—
Reply: The loss is theirs and the gain is ours, since their labor is deducted from the price of the grain which their masters sell us.
—Then, if they say to you: Other nations have many advantages over us—
Reply: By exchange, they are forced to let us share in them.
—If they say to you: With liberty we shall be swamped with bread, beef a la mode, coal, and coats—
Reply: We shall be neither cold nor hungry.
—If they say to you: With what shall we pay?
Reply: Do not be troubled about that. If we are to be inundated, it will be because we are able to pay. If we cannot pay we will not be inundated.