tailieunhanh - the bastiat collection volume 1 phần 9

ít nhất là trong tên của nhân loại, xưng thờ lạy nghèo. Tôi nói chuyện với những người nắm giữ tài sản quý trọng và hiểu từ này, không sang trọng trong số ít, nhưng thoải mái, hạnh phúc, an ninh, độc lập, hướng, nhân phẩm của tất cả. Có chỉ có hai cách mà theo đó các phương tiện thiết yếu để bảo quản, | 6 To Artisans and Workmen Many journals have attacked me in your presence and Perhaps you will not object to read my defense. I am not suspicious. when a man writes or speaks I take it for granted that he believes what he says. And yet after reading and re-reading the journals to which I now reply I seem unable to discover any other than melancholy tendencies. Our present business is to inquire which is more favorable to your interests liberty or restriction. I believe that it is liberty they believe that it is restriction. It is for each party to prove his own thesis. Was it necessary to insinuate that we free traders are the agents of England of the south of France of the Government on this point you see how easy recrimination would be. 1This article appeared in the Courier Francaise of September 1846 in reply to articles that had appeared in L Atelier. 351 352 The Bastiat Collection We are the agents of England they say because some of us employ the words meeting and free trader And do they not make use of the words drawback and budget We it would seem imitate Cobden and the English democracy And do they not parody Lord George Bentinck and the British aristocracy We borrow from perfidious Albion the doctrine of liberty And do they not borrow from the same source the quibbles of protection We follow the lead of Bordeaux and the south And do they not avail themselves of the cupidity of Lille and the north We favor the secret designs of the ministry whose object is to divert public attention from their real policy And do they not act in the interest of the civil list which profits most of all from the policy of protection You see then very clearly that if we did not despise this war of disparagement arms would not be wanting to carry it on. But this is beside the question. The question and we must never lose sight of it is this Whether it is better for the working classes to be free or not to be free to purchase foreign commodities Workmen They tell you .