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Reply: Thank you, kindly

--If they say to you: Ourto the lack of return cargoes our vessels cannot con ones--

Reply: When you want to do everything at ho It is as absurd to wish for a navy under a prohibitory system as to wish for carts where all transportation is forbidden

--If they say to you: Supposing that protection is unjust, everything is founded on it; there are hts acquired, and it cannot be abandoned without suffering--

Reply: Every injustice profits so run profits no one), and to use as an argument the disturbance which the cessation of the injustice causes to the person profiting by it, is to say that an injustice, only because it has existed for a moment, should be eternal

XVI

THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT HAND

[_Report to the King_]

SIRE--When we see thesetheir doctrines, andis implied by that of ownershi+p (a piece of insolence that M Billault has criticised like a true lawyer), we may be allowed to entertain serious fears as to the destiny of _national labor_; for ill Frenchences when they are free?

The Ministry which you have honored with your confidence has naturally paid great attention to so serious a subject, and has sought in its wisdoht be substituted for that which appears compromised It proposes to you to forbid your faithful subjects the use of the right hand

Sire, do not wrong us so far as to think that we lightly adopted a lance, may appear odd Deep study of the _protective systeism, on which it entirely rests:

The more one labors, the richer one is

The more difficulties one has to conquer, the o_, the more difficulties one has to conquer, the richer one is

What is _protection_, really, but an ingenious application of this for, which is so compact that it would resist the subtlety of M Billault himself?

Let us personify the country Let us look on it as a collective being, with thirty millionium for ten quintals of iron ”But,” we say to him, ”make the iron yourself” ”I cannot,” says he; ”it would take me too much time, and I could not make five quintals while I can make one clock” ”Utopist!” we reply; ”for this very reason we forbid yourthe clock, and order you to make the iron Do not you see that we create you labor?”

Sire, it will not have escaped your sagacity, that it is just as if we said to the country, _Labor with the left hand, and not with the right_

The creation of obstacles to furnish labor an opportunity to develop itself, is the principle of the _restriction_ which is dying It is also the principle of the _restriction_ which is about to be created Sire, to ulations is not to innovate, but to preserve

The efficacy of the measure is incontestable It is difficult--much more difficult than one thinks--to do with the left hand what one was accustoht You will convince yourself of it, Sire, if you will condescend to try our syste cards, for instance We can then flatter ourselves that we have opened an illimitable career to labor

When workmen of all kinds are reduced to their left hands, consider, Sire, the immense number that will be required toit to be invariable, which ays do e coious a de about a considerable increase in wages; and pauperism will disappear from the country as if by enchantment

Sire, your paternal heart will rejoice at the thought that the benefits of this regulation will extend over that interesting portion of the great family whose fate excites your liveliest solicitude

What is the destiny of women in France? That sex which is the boldest andthee in the lottery offices These have been closed by a pitiless philanthropy; and under what pretext? ”To save,”

said they, ”the money of the poor” Alas! has a poor man ever obtained from a piece of money enjoyments as sweet and innocent as those which the mysterious urn of fortune contained for him? Cut off from all the sweets of life, how many delicious hours did he introduce into the bosom of his family when, every teeks, he put the value of a day's labor on a _quatern_ Hope had always her place at the doarret was peopled with illusions; the wife prohbors with the splendor of her attire; the son saw hihter felt herself carried toward the altar in the arms of her betrothed To have a beautiful drea

The lottery was the poetry of the poor, and we have allowed it to escape the for our _proteges_?--tobacco, and the postal service