But on the turf, the race is at once a _means and an end_.

The public has no interest in the struggle, independent of the struggle itself.

When your horses are started in the course with the single object of determining which is the best runner, nothing is more natural than that their burdens should be equalized.

But if your object were to send an important and critical piece of intelligence, could you without incongruity place obstacles to the speed of that one whose fleetness would secure you the best means of attaining your end?
And yet this is your course in relation to industry.

You forget the end aimed at, which is the _well-being_ of the community; you set it aside; more, you sacrifice it by a perfect _petitio principii_.
But we cannot lead our opponents to look at things from our point of view; let us now take theirs: let us examine the question as producers.
I will seek to prove: 1.