He does not dress in gold, nor warm himself with silver.

What difference does it make whether there be more or less coin in the country, provided there be more bread in the cupboard, more meat in the larder, more clothing in the press, and more wood in the cellar?
* * * * * To Restrictive Laws, I offer this dilemma: Either you allow that you produce scarcity, or you do not allow it.
If you allow it, you confess at once that your end is to injure the people as much as possible.

If you do not allow it, then you deny your power to diminish the supply, to raise the price, and consequently you deny having favored the producer.
You are either injurious or inefficient.

You can never be useful.
II.
OBSTACLE--CAUSE.
The obstacle mistaken for the cause--scarcity mistaken for abundance.
The sophism is the same.

It is well to study it under every aspect.
Man naturally is in a state of entire destitution.
Between this state and the satisfying of his wants, there exists a multitude of _obstacles_ which it is the object of labor to surmount.