There was no complaint in those countries of want of advances to cultivators, or of lawsuits and tumults among the factors; nor was there any appearance of the multitude of other evils which had been so much dreaded from the vivacity of competition.
This statement illustrates that competition did not lead to the feared negative consequences in regions without a monopoly.
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