Part 33 (2/2)

_Robinson_ Then by these exchanges we shall become dependent on hietables, and ill live in good friendshi+p

_Robinson_ Fancy! Do you want I should leave you without an answer?

_Friday_ Let us see; I a that the stranger learns to cultivate a garden, and that his island is more fertile than ours Do you see the consequences?

_Friday_ Yes Our relations with the stranger will stop He will take no et theae, and ill be then just where you want us to be now

_Robinson_ Short-sighted savage! You do not see that after having destroyed our hunting, by inundating us with gaetables

_Friday_ But he will do that only so long as we give hi as we find _so else_ to produce, which will econo else!_ You always coue, friend Friday; there is nothing practical in your views

The contest lasted a long time, and, as often happens, left each one convinced that he was right However, Robinson having great influence over Friday, his views prevailed, and when the stranger caer, in order that your proposition s:

”The first is, that your island is not richer in gale but with _equal arain For, as in every exchange there is necessarily a gainer and a loser, ould be cheated, if you were not What have you to say?”

”Nothing, nothing,” replied the stranger, who burst out laughing, and returned to his canoe

--The story would not be bad if Robinson was not so foolish

--He is no more so than the coreat difference You suppose one solitary ether This is not our world; the diversity of occupations, and the intervention of e the question materially

--All this coe their nature

--What! Do you propose to coes?

--Coes; the real nature of the exchange is identical with the real nature of coreat, and as the gravitation which impels an atom is of the same nature as that which attracts a world

--Thus, according to you, these arguments, which in Robinson's mouth are so false, are no less so in the mouths of our protectionists?

--Yes; only error is hidden better under the complication of circumstances

--Well, now, select some instance from what has actually occurred

--Very well; in France, in view of custoencies of the cli _to make it, or to have it_?

--A pretty question! To have it, we must make it

--That is not necessary It is certain that to have it some one must make it; but it is not necessary that the person or country using it should make it You did not produce that which clothes you so well, nor France the coffee it uses for breakfast

--But I purchased my cloth, and France its coffee

--Exactly, and hat?