So it will be with all occupations.
They say that with freedom there will be fewer workmen in the mines and the mills.
I do not believe it.

But if this does happen, it is _necessarily_ because there will be more labor freely in the open air.
For if, as they say, these mines and spinning mills can be sustained only by the aid of taxes imposed on _everybody_ for their benefit, these taxes once abolished, _everybody_ will be more comfortably off, and it is the comfort of all which feeds the labor of each one.
Excuse me if I linger at this demonstration.

I have so great a desire to see you on the side of liberty.
In France, capital invested in manufactures yields, I suppose, five per cent.profit.But here is Mondor, who has one hundred thousand francs invested in a manufactory, on which he loses five per cent.

The difference between the loss and gain is ten thousand francs.

What do they do?
They assess upon you a little tax of ten thousand francs, which is given to Mondor, and you do not notice it, for it is very skillfully disguised.