The Virginia Gazette

In all well-instituted Commonwealths, Care has been taken to limit Mens Possessions; which is done for many Reasons, and, amongst the rest, for one which perhaps is not often considered, i. e. that when Bounds are set to Mens Desires, after they have acquired as much as the Laws will permit them, their private Interest is at an End, and they have nothing to do but to take Care of the Public. Hence one need not wonder if the Public is not better taken Care of in most modern States, when we see Men that can reckon up their Thousands and Ten Thousands of annual Rents, still eagerly scrambling for more, engaging in any dirty Job to increase the Store, adding House to House, and joining Field to Field, sometimes meanly too, stooping to accept a Pension for Services they are ashamed to own, and leaving the Care of the Public to Posterity, who, at the Rate Things are managed, may probably not be left in a Condition to support themselves.

-But where is the Remedy for this Evil? No where to be found: The Disease is obvious to all, but the Cure is out of the Reach of human Skill. In every Country Power follows Riches; therefore it cannot be expected the Mighty will ever make a Law by which themselves must be most affected. So that all the Wise can do, is to take the World as they find it, make the best of every bad Market, reform what they can, and leave Providence to deal with what is too hard for them.