He believes, he proclaims aloud, that if France gives ten to receive fifteen, she loses five; and surely, with such a belief, nothing is more natural than that he should make laws consistent with it.
He says: "What it is important to remark, is, that constantly the amount of importation is augmenting, and surpassing that of exportation.

Every year France buys more foreign produce, and sells less of its own produce.

This can be proved by figures.

In 1842, we see the importation exceed the exportation by two hundred millions.

This appears to me to prove, in the clearest manner, that national labor _is not sufficiently protected_, that we are provided by foreign labor, and that the competition of our rivals _oppresses_ our industry.