Have you ever thought of the risk we run of dying of cold, if the proprietors of these foreign forests should take it into their heads not to bring any more wood to Paris?
Let us, therefore, prohibit wood.
By this means we shall stop the drain of specie, we shall start the wood-chopping business, and open to our workmen a new source of labor and wages.

[Applause.] _Jean._ I second the motion of the Honorable member--a proposition so philanthropic and so disinterested, as he remarked.

It is time that we should stop this intolerable _freedom of entry_, which has brought a ruinous competition upon our market, so that there is not a province tolerably well situated for producing some one article which does not inundate us with it, sell it to us at a low price, and depress Parisian labor.

It is the business of the State to _equalize the conditions of production_ by wisely graduated duties; to allow the entrance from without of whatever is dearer there than at Paris, and thus relieve us from an unequal _contest_.

How, for instance, can they expect us to make milk and butter in Paris as against Brittany and Normandy?
Think, gentlemen; the Bretons have land cheaper, feed more convenient, and labor more abundant.