It therefore seems to me, that trade will best find and make its own rates; and that government cannot well interfere, unless it will take the whole trade into its own hands (as in some colonies it does) and manage it by its own servants, at its own risque.
In this passage, Franklin argues that trade should self-regulate without government interference, except in extreme cases.
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