[Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frederic Bastiat]@TWC D-Link bookSophisms of the Protectionists PART I 35/107
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 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. 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.
That equalizing the facilities of production is to attack the foundations of all trade. 2.
That it is not true that the labor of one country can be crushed by the competition of more favored climates. 3.
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