Part 22 (1/2)

But it is not true that this iniquity is profitable to you Give e for yourselves

What do they protect in France? Articles reat establishments, iron, cloth and silks, and they tell you that this is done not in the interest of the ees

But every tin labor presents itself in the reat manufacturers, do they not allow it to come in?

Are there not in Paris thirty thousand Germans who make clothes and shoes? Why are they allowed to establish themselves at your side when cloth is driven away? Because the cloth is islators But clothes are entle of wool into cloth, because that is _their_ business; but when it co cloth into clothes, they admit competition, because that is _your_ trade

When they lish rails, but they ilish worklish rails colish muscles compete only with yours

We do not ask thelish laborers We ask that cloth and rails may be allowed to come in We ask justice for all, equality before the law for all

It is a mockery to tell us that these Custoe in view Tailors, shoerocers, jewelers, butchers, bakers and dressle instance in which restriction profits you, and if you wish, I will point out four where it hurts you

And after all, just see how much of the appearance of truth this self-denial, which your journals attribute to the monopolists, has

I believe that we can call that the _natural rate of wages_ which would establish itself _naturally_ if there were freedom of trade Then, when they tell you that restriction is for your benefit, it is as if they told you that it added a _surplus_ to your _natural_ wages Now, an _extra natural_ surplus of wages must be taken from somewhere; it does not fall from the moon; it ht to this conclusion, that, according to your pretended friends, the protective systeht into the world in order that capitalists ht be sacrificed to laborers!

Tell me, is that probable?

Where is your place in the Chamber of Peers? When did you sit at the Palais Bourbon? Who has consulted you? Whence ca the protective system?

I hear your answer: _We_ did not establish it We are neither Peers nor Deputies, nor Counselors of State The capitalists have done it

By heavens, they were in a delectable mood that day What! the capitalists made this law; _they_ established the prohibitive system, so that you laborers shouldstranger still

How is it that your pretended friends who speak to you now of the goodness, generosity and self-denial of capitalists, constantly express regret that you do not enjoy your political rights? From their point of viehat could you do with theislation, it is true Thanks to this ranted themselves the monopoly of iron, cloth, coal, wood and meat, which is also true But now your pretended friends say that the capitalists, in acting thus, have stripped theed to do it, to enrich you without your being entitled to it Surely, if you were electors and deputies, you could not e theanization which rules us is hts for you; for these deet out of this dileives you _ives you _less_, they deceive you in inviting you to support it If it gives you _ on you to claihts, when those who now exercise them, make sacrifices for you which you, in your honesty, could not yourselves vote

Workingmen, God forbid that the effect of this article should be to cast in your hearts the gerainst the rich If et that it has its root in _errors_, which are co to excite theether What must be done to accomplish this? If it is true that the natural social tendencies aid in effacing inequality a men, all we have to do to let those tendencies act is to remove the artificial obstructions which interfere with their operation, and allow the relations of different classes to establish themselves on the principle of _justice_, which, to my mind, is the principle of FREEDOM

VII

A CHINESE STORY

They exclaie!

Open the thousand books, the thousand papers, the thousand pamphlets, which the Parisian presses throw out every day on the country; is not all this the work of little saints?

What spirit in the painting of the vices of the ti tenderness for the masses! With what liberality they invite the rich to divide with the poor, or the poor to divide with the rich! How many plans of social reforanization!