MANUFACTURER-MINISTER: I am a carpenter, as was Jesus; I handle the hatchet and the plane to serve you.
In chopping and splitting from morning until night in the domain of my lord, the King, the idea has occurred to me that my labor was as much _national_ as yours.
And accordingly I don't understand why protection should not visit my shop as well as your manufactory.
For indeed, if you make cloths, I make roofs.

Both by different means protect our patrons from cold and rain.

But I have to run after customers while business seeks you.

You know how to manage this by obtaining a monopoly, while my business is open to any one who chooses to engage in it.
What is there astonishing in this?
Mr.Cunin, the Cabinet Minister, has not forgotten Mr.Cunin, the manufacturer, as was very natural.

But unfortunately, my humble occupation has not given a Minister to France, although it has given a Saviour to the world.
And this Saviour, in the immortal code which he bequeathed to men, did not utter the smallest word by virtue of which carpenters might feel authorized to enrich themselves as you do at the expense of others.
Look, then, at my position.